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Any advice appreciated. It's a long time since I used to read PC Pro and be on top of the latest tech to squeeze every ounce of performance out of a system. I don’t game any more, but my youngest daughter does. Currently she has
Intel quad Q9650
8Gb Ram
Gtx 970 4Gb
SSd drives.
She plays games like Skyrim, Dragonage Sims 4 etc.
Pc seems fast enough and seems to play smoothly at 1900x1080 with most options set pretty high.
Now, the SSDs are in a sata 3gb/s board, so are underperforming.
The Ram is DDR2
While the 970 is a pretty fast card imo, it's a bit long in the tooth nowadays.
As I said, I think all the games run very smoothly, but load-times can be slow. So I wondered how much difference a sata 6gb/s board would make along with ddr3/4 Ram and obviously a faster cpu. Something like an i5 8600 with 16gb DDR4.
A noticeable upgrade, particularly as regards loading times, or money spent for little difference?
Thanks in advance.
Intel quad Q9650
8Gb Ram
Gtx 970 4Gb
SSd drives.
She plays games like Skyrim, Dragonage Sims 4 etc.
Pc seems fast enough and seems to play smoothly at 1900x1080 with most options set pretty high.
Now, the SSDs are in a sata 3gb/s board, so are underperforming.
The Ram is DDR2
While the 970 is a pretty fast card imo, it's a bit long in the tooth nowadays.
As I said, I think all the games run very smoothly, but load-times can be slow. So I wondered how much difference a sata 6gb/s board would make along with ddr3/4 Ram and obviously a faster cpu. Something like an i5 8600 with 16gb DDR4.
A noticeable upgrade, particularly as regards loading times, or money spent for little difference?
Thanks in advance.