Hey all,
Long story short, I'm looking to bring my signature PC (see below) back to life.
What can be done to give a noticeable peformance boost in gaming? (I'm not playing anything AAA, I'm mostly just on WoW if I get free time these days - the 570 is dying so needs a replacement anyway- it shuts down consistently at "high" temperatures)
Some key points:
-I don't really want to go down the SSD route beacuse I can't be naffed with reinstalling windows.
-I've been looking at new cards, potentially something in the nvidia 700 series, but I'm worried the cpu is just going to be a bottleneck for anything too beefy. Any thoughts on this?
-Also fairly sure most cards are 6+8 pin or even 8+8 pin pcie power now? This one is 6+6, and that's all my psu has cables for. Would an adapter suffice?
-Doesn't seem like I'll get any appreciable performance gain with new/more RAM.
-I'd rather not go through the rigmarole of installing a new CPU and cost-wise, better chips for this socket seem to be hideously expensive, despite their age.
Cheers for looking!
Long story short, I'm looking to bring my signature PC (see below) back to life.
What can be done to give a noticeable peformance boost in gaming? (I'm not playing anything AAA, I'm mostly just on WoW if I get free time these days - the 570 is dying so needs a replacement anyway- it shuts down consistently at "high" temperatures)
Some key points:
-I don't really want to go down the SSD route beacuse I can't be naffed with reinstalling windows.
-I've been looking at new cards, potentially something in the nvidia 700 series, but I'm worried the cpu is just going to be a bottleneck for anything too beefy. Any thoughts on this?
-Also fairly sure most cards are 6+8 pin or even 8+8 pin pcie power now? This one is 6+6, and that's all my psu has cables for. Would an adapter suffice?
-Doesn't seem like I'll get any appreciable performance gain with new/more RAM.
-I'd rather not go through the rigmarole of installing a new CPU and cost-wise, better chips for this socket seem to be hideously expensive, despite their age.
Cheers for looking!