That badly need upgrading?

[SilentParadox]

I know this is pretty random but I'm also a little drunk, that liquid confidence, eh But my friend who is more of a computer wiz than I am said I NEED to (and really need to) update my CPU as any minute it will as she said "bottle neck it" you Americans speak weird (I'm British) but I have a quad core i5 w/e. I'll add a screenshot) does it need updating that badly? I can run Skyrim & The witcher 3 GOTY edition on highest and not get any lag even tho I have mods for skyrim. (even emb, I'll link it as I really like it https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/10759

[Guest]

If it is running the games you play fine; then don't worry about upgrading.  Any processor is going to "bottle neck" from time to time.  You may have to upgrade eventually with newer games that come out.

[worik]

4 hours ago, SilentParadox said:

I can run Skyrim & The witcher 3 GOTY edition on highest and not get any lag even tho I have mods for skyrim.

If you can do that, what would be the benefit of doing anything? Fixing a problem that isn't there? Sounds like useless advice to me.

 

B.t.w. I envy you. Our old brick can't sustain a high resolution TW3 without stutter. But it's fun even on a lower setting

[SilentParadox]

8 hours ago, worik said:

If you can do that, what would be the benefit of doing anything? Fixing a problem that isn't there? Sounds like useless advice to me.

 

B.t.w. I envy you. Our old brick can't sustain a high resolution TW3 without stutter. But it's fun even on a lower setting

I only got TW3 yesterday and just started playing today, it's fun, first witcher game I've played so getting used to the controls are hard but I'm enjoying it. You can get a PC like mine pretty "cheap" I got mine for £220, you've seen the processor and I have a NIVIDA GeForce GTX 750 TI

[worik]

3 hours ago, SilentParadox said:

first witcher game I've played so getting used to the controls are hard but I'm enjoying it.

They differ in each part ... completely.  And when TW3 came out I deliberately played 1 and 2 again to get me back into the mood of the Northern Kingdoms.

Did you read the books first? 

 

[SilentParadox]

10 minutes ago, worik said:

Did you read the books first? 

 

I can't say that I did, completely new to the witcher universe but I'll play the first two when I get the money!

[worik]

23 minutes ago, SilentParadox said:

I can't say that I did, completely new to the witcher universe but I'll play the first two when I get the money!

Be prepared to play TW3 again. Once you read a few books and played 1+2. And suddenly you see things veeeery differently.

My favorite trailer.

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/embed/c0i88t0Kacs

 

 

 

[Grey Cloud]

Ask your friend to define what they mean by 'bottleneck', when and why it will happen and what the consequences will be.

[SilentParadox]

1 hour ago, worik said:

My favorite trailer.

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/c0i88t0Kacs

 

 

 

I did the same with skyrim, I played oblivion, then skyrim then went and got morrowind and played them all again in order!

(But I also play eso and if that's 1000 years before skyrim then some events don't match up but idk if they every said eso was cannon)

[2dk2c.2]

Playing games makes me sleepy, I used to come here to wake up.

Then I went through an upgrade-period, where everything in my widow-PC got upgraded.

Well almost, I can't afford "everything".

Your CPU is fine that I can see but your drive-monitor-memory-videocard combo might need looking at.

press * just before the next time you post a device manager screenshot.

(* expands all the categories)

So someone can say "OMG, you still use that?" or something.

I just bought a very vanilla (v e r y vanilla) monitor that's ok for my needs, and I hope it lasts til I die,

and it's nice being able to zoom this site 250% to make the text reach end-to-end.

But some would say "OMG, they still make THAT??"

So your friends and forum denizens will ride you if you have anything made before last week.

Prioritize. 

Alcohol first,

sex,

cable,

then games

then PC for the games.
 

 

[AKM]

Some hardware/software matchups work together better together than others.  That said, I used a 21" CRT monitor for years, and only got rid of it due to the demands of others (that thing took up a LOT of space); not the fact that it ever quit meeting my requirements.  Had I not been "forced" to get rid of that perfectly good piece of hardware, I'd still have it today.  I actually liked the picture quality better than my current monitor, too.

Old does not necessarily mean "in desperate need of upgrading".

 

When I did finally do a full system upgrade, due to the fact that the programs I wanted to run couldn't be run, I went with the best I could afford for the performance gained.  "Future-proofing" doesn't always work, or work for long if it does, but I don't think you'd want to do an upgrade, only to find six months later that your new system once again won't run what you want it to run.

 

Be aware that it's not always the processor that causes the "bottleneck".  One of the disadvantages to the seemingly reasonable idea of upgrading your PC part by part is that once you start with one part, you'll find that something else suddenly becomes the lowest performing segment of the system, and then that needs upgrading, etc. and so on.  Sooner rather than later, you'll find you've done a complete rebuild, even though you origionally only wanted to upgrade a single part.  Generally, though, I consider building your own system to be your best bet, because YOU built it, therefor YOU know exactly what components are in it.  You're not taking someone else's word and risking paying for X and getting Y, because they figure people buying pre-built systems don't really know computers that well.

[Pork Type]

Ehh. I was running an i5-2500K at stock speed until the end of January this year. It was the motherboard that went haywire.

 

i5-9600K now, same video (RX 480) and sure, it's better, but not buttery 60 FPS everywhere better. At least from video re-encoding observations, I know the modern CPU is really that much better than the old 2500. (It's got 6 cores; it damn well better be.) But I don't have a money tree growing in my backyard, so the RX 480 video remains and is probably now the bottleneck.

 

What am I trying to say...Ah, yes. Your friend is full of it. If your games play OK, then you're OK.

 

I used to overclock the snot out of my hardware. Then, I started running it @ stock while keeping a future OC in mind, as "future proofing." The last 2 times I implemented that strategy, I got about 6 years out of the hardware, running it at stock and being fine, but ending up having to swap out due to mobo failure. Go figure.

 

You're OK.