PC upgrade suggestions?

[Labora]

So I got GTA 5 the other day and think I have finally hit a limit for my old system. (2.3ghz dual core and 8gb ram) I also recently got a 4k camera and can't watch/edit the video very well with what I have. Looking to upgrade for $350-400ish

I have a good setup but need to get a newer Motherboard, CPU and Memory to match. System is water cooled with a huge power supply so I can overclock whatever I want and should be able to support it.

Any suggestions on a OC friendly processor and mobo combo in that range? (3.5ghz+)

Dual channel or single on the memory? (I can hold off on getting new memory and use what I have to stay within the budget if spending more on the mobo/cpu would be better for now. )

Next upgrade down the road will be a SSD and either a newer video card or another to match the one I have now. (Can't recall what it is off hand but it is about 3 years old.)

[Unicorn Jeff]

What video card are you running?

[Labora]

I will have to double check tonight, but looking at my Newegg history I think it is this one. (Unless that is the one that went in my Dads PC)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127575

Which also means it is older than I thought (2011), guess I am getting OLD because it doesn't seem that long ago.

[abecx]

Get an Intel NUC with an SSD, should cost about $400 total and will do all the things you're wanting.

[jyro]

You didn't mention what CPU you have in your current setup. Max amount of ram always helps also

[abecx]

Typically diminish returns for memory on your average desktop machine is 8GB, anything more than that is really useful for heavy IO based applications ( even if you have SSD's ).

I really think if you were to upgrade anything it would be the CPU, 2GHz is pretty slow, however a video card makes sense too. I would just get a NUC though, about the same price, and you'll be way better off with a smaller machine that has no moving parts.

Also, what motherboard do you have right now, maybe you can just get a newer CPU for that socket.

[CexMashean]

Get an Intel NUC with an SSD, should cost about $400 total and will do all the things you're wanting.

GTA 5 on that? Really?

[71chevellejohn]

GTA 5 on that? Really?

That's what consoles are for!

[Gasser64]

That dual core is fuckin ya

Get an i5 3570k at least

[Labora]

Late reply sorry haven't messed with it in a few days.

MSI MS-7512 Motherboard
q8200 CPU (Turns out it is a quad core derp)
4gb ram ddr2
MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III PE/OC Radeon HD 6950

I have been debating on throwing another card in it it (IF I can managed to find one to match what I have I could double up.) And adding a bit more memory. Would be the cheap way out might get me by.

Or just going ahead and going to a I5 unlocked of some sort and upgrade everything but the video card.

Seems at some point my video card overclock settings got washed away probably during a update so I am going over all my settings again and making sure everything is OCed, If I'm lucky it will help some.

[abecx]

GTA 5 on that? Really?

it gets 30-35 FPS on it.

Were talking about spending $300-$400 bucks here, a new motherboard cpu and video card is going to be at least that and then your memory might not be compatible and you still wouldn't have an SSD.

I really doubt SLI is going to help you when your bottleneck is most likely processing power ( run system task with the CPU graph and alt tab and play the game for a bit then alt tab and post a screenshot ). Even having four cores, what gets you is the core speeds are pretty low. More ram would definitely help speed up loading times on a game like this.

If you wanted a full fledged desktop machine, I have a pretty bad ass one sitting next to me.

Its a i7 4770k with a dual GPU 7990 video card ( water cooled ), a Sound Blaster Zx ( supports 600ohm output ), 32GB of ram and 2x 240GB SSD's in raid0 and a legal copy of windows 7 ( hah ) on it. I play games in 4k amazingly with it, I'd be willing to sell it for $800.

[Labora]

That is a smoking deal, will keep it in mind.

I got 4g memory from a friend and it helped a lot. Messing with the OC speeds to see if I can speed things up a bit and keep it stable.

[abecx]

Post a picture of your tasks managers CPU graphs if you can that will help troubleshooting a lot. It might be your video card but I have a feeling its that 2008 CPU.

[Tx Redneck]

I'm pretty confident it's the cpu and bus bottlenecking it.

[Gasser64]

That is a smoking deal, will keep it in mind.

I got 4g memory from a friend and it helped a lot. Messing with the OC speeds to see if I can speed things up a bit and keep it stable.

That cpu, even overclocked to its highest stable OC, is still a big bottleneck. No question.

We are talking modern games here. 2009 and below... probably not so much. But new stuff, definitely. Hell a q9650 at 4.0Ghz would be a bottleneck these days.