- Jun 29, 2017
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Hey
I just bought a prebuild gaming pc (which I know was a stupid decision, i know) and now I would like to improve my performance in games. I live in Europe so prices may be higher.
My current system has a i5 6400, GTX 970 and 8 gigs of ram running single channel and a B150m motherboard (LGA1151).
I thought about upgrading my CPU to the new intel coffee lake. I'm considering to buy the new i5 8400 mostly because it comes with a cooler and my mother board isn't overclock compatible. My pc has no system fans because it's trying to achieve "max silence while gaming" or something like that, so my only fans are my PSU, GPU and CPU Cooler.
Now to the questions I would like to have some juicy answers for.
Is the upgrade even worth the cash? I just bought my pc just over 1 year ago, but I'm not satisfied with the performance I'm getting. The 6 core and 6 threads seems really handy when playing games. Please note that I'm also considering to buy a secondary monitor to browse the web or watch some content such as youtube videos while gaming. So I would like to have some headroom for my CPU to manage both applications without tearing down my performance.
Btw is my skylake motherboard even compatible with a coffee lake cpu? My motherboard is a b150m lga1151. Brand is pretty much unknown. Probably doesn't even have a brand to cut down the PC's price.
How about power usage? I've heard that my pc model has a very strict PSU with a low amount of watt output or something like that. I would like to avoid buying another PSU for strict budget reasons. So is the power usage much higher on an 8400?
Thanks for the help.
I just bought a prebuild gaming pc (which I know was a stupid decision, i know) and now I would like to improve my performance in games. I live in Europe so prices may be higher.
My current system has a i5 6400, GTX 970 and 8 gigs of ram running single channel and a B150m motherboard (LGA1151).
I thought about upgrading my CPU to the new intel coffee lake. I'm considering to buy the new i5 8400 mostly because it comes with a cooler and my mother board isn't overclock compatible. My pc has no system fans because it's trying to achieve "max silence while gaming" or something like that, so my only fans are my PSU, GPU and CPU Cooler.
Now to the questions I would like to have some juicy answers for.
Is the upgrade even worth the cash? I just bought my pc just over 1 year ago, but I'm not satisfied with the performance I'm getting. The 6 core and 6 threads seems really handy when playing games. Please note that I'm also considering to buy a secondary monitor to browse the web or watch some content such as youtube videos while gaming. So I would like to have some headroom for my CPU to manage both applications without tearing down my performance.
Btw is my skylake motherboard even compatible with a coffee lake cpu? My motherboard is a b150m lga1151. Brand is pretty much unknown. Probably doesn't even have a brand to cut down the PC's price.
How about power usage? I've heard that my pc model has a very strict PSU with a low amount of watt output or something like that. I would like to avoid buying another PSU for strict budget reasons. So is the power usage much higher on an 8400?
Thanks for the help.
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