How do i find out if my 7 yr old pc needs a CPU upgrade or a graphics card upgrade?
How do i find out if my 7 yr old pc needs a CPU upgrade or a graphics card upgrade?
Adam Thomas
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userbenchmark.com
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Dylan Parker
>what are benchmarks
compare your potato with benchmarks of programs or games that you play to todays hardware
Parker Howard
>computer too slow
>needs upgrade
/thread
Josiah Lewis
look if the cpu draging or if the gpu is rushing
Jeremiah Carter
post your specs faggot
Jason Fisher
>computer too slow
>needs linux
/thread
Landon Martinez
>installs linux
Computer now too fast
Zachary James
i guess im trying to see if there's a way to tell what the most cost effective upgrade would be at any point.
i5 6600K @ 3.50GHz
16GB RAM
Radeon RX 570
Jacob Nguyen
By seeing if your machine feels too slow doing the tasks you want to do.
Once you've ruled out any gummed-up OS causing slowness, check your local equivalent of Task Manager.
Memory usage very close to the top of the graph? Add more memory.
CPU meter pegged to the top of the graph? Get CPU upgrade.
GPU usage pegged to the top of the graph, but the CPU isn't? Upgrade GPU.
Brayden Jackson
Play a game with a usage overlay on.
Is your GPU at full utilization? Replace the GPU
Is your GPU not a full utilization and the CPU on high/full utilization or a single CPU thread reaching full utilization? Replace CPU
Is your GPU not a full utilization and no thread on the CPU is on full utilization? Could be RAM bandwidth/timing (could also be a dogshit game engine)
Hunter Sanchez
userbenchmark.com
Run it and post the link if you want actual advice.
Parker Cooper
>actual advice
>userbenchmark
Carter Johnson
The site has a bias in the way it presents scores. The benchmark itself is concise and allows anyone with half a brain to get a good overview of a computers performance and some potential problems.
Isaiah Perry
The most cost effective upgrade is not upgrading
Ayden Ross
>want to play modern games
>can't
>want to upgrade
>realize modern games are kinda shit
>don't want to upgrade
Is true.
Elijah Perez
Steady low fps: upgrade GPU
Stuttering: upgrade CPU
It's that simple. Maxwell GPUs (GTX 9xx) do cause lots of stuttering as well when bottlenecked though
Robert Cook
Have you tried enabling SAM instead?
Shit solved all my stuttering on a R5 X370 build.
Nicholas Hall
>Is your GPU not a full utilization and no thread on the CPU is on full utilization? Could be RAM bandwidth/timing (could also be a dogshit game engine)
In most cases this is drivers. Currently all AMD RX 6000 series owners know that the metro series of games is completely unplayable, all thanks to broken implementations from AMD.
Connor Thomas
don’t get 3XXX ryzen, 5XXX is where they became competitive with Intel
Parker Perez
>t. intelfag userbenchmark schill
Ethan Peterson
I had that cpu yeh you need to upgrade but no point unless you plan to upgrade the gpu also