New Member - Thinking about upgrading my PC, need advice plz

[James AT]

Hello,

I purchased my first pc only a year ago from PC Specialists and I'm thinking about upgrading the cpu. I want to know if I choose to upgrade what happens to the exsting cpu.

Thankyou,
James

 

[steaky360]

To save everyone the extra click the spec in question is:

Case FRACTAL DEFINE R6 BLACK QUIET MID-TOWER CASE
Processor Intel Core i9 – 9820x
Motherboard ASUS® ROG STRIX X299-E GAMING: ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s, WIFI - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 SUPER - HDMI, DP - VR Ready!
1st Storage Drive 2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA 2.5" SSD, (upto 560MB/sR | 540MB/sW)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling Corsair H115i RGB PLATINUM Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card Asus Xonar AE 7.1-Channel Gaming Audio Card
Wireless/Wired Networking WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language United Kingdom - English Language

If you chose to upgrade your CPU you would keep the old one. Either you could send the entire rig back to PCS for the upgrade or choose to do it yourself.

Why do you want to upgrade your CPU?

 

[SpyderTracks]

As above, why are you looking to upgrade? What are you struggling with?

 

[James AT]

Sorry for late response,

I benchmarked my pc and was given a report that the cpu had below expected standard, problem was single core threading (achieved 75%, average 85.2%), in addition to this I want to get the rtx3070 in about 4 months time, with the valve index.
I did more research after posting and came to the conclusion that my RAM needs to be 2 x 16GB instead of 4 x GB and need a 750 power supply to support both VR and GPU.
Does this sound correct or have I made a blunder.

Thankyou,
James

 

[SpyderTracks]

Sorry for late response,

I benchmarked my pc and was given a report that the cpu had below expected standard, problem was single core threading (achieved 75%, average 85.2%), in addition to this I want to get the rtx3070 in about 4 months time, with the valve index.
I did more research after posting and came to the conclusion that my RAM needs to be 2 x 16GB instead of 4 x GB and need a 750 power supply to support both VR and GPU.
Does this sound correct or have I made a blunder.

Thankyou,
James

The reason it's scored quite low in single threaded is that it's not a gaming platform, it's X299 which is the Intel X series range in line with AMD Threadripper, they're enthusiast grade CPU's meant for rendering workstations and higher multicore usage. As such they have significantly lower single threaded boost clocks and more cores.

To change the CPU to something worthwhile, you'd have to change motherboard as well to a mainstream chipset.

That being said, I wouldn't say switching the CPU would be of much benefit to gaming anyway, the bottleneck on a properly designed system will always be the monitor especially at higher resolutions where the workload is shifted to the GPU and away from the CPU.

You would need a far better PSU, preferably an 850W RMx one to prevent this kind of issue happening in the future.

As @Nursemorph says, just a PSU swap should be sufficient for the RTX3070

 

[James AT]

Hello,

I benchmarked it with userbenchmark.
I will probably in a year or two upgrade MB then, as for now, I'll definetly upgrade the PSU and look to upgrade first primary drive.

Thankyou for your quick responses,
James