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View submission: Simple Questions - December 02, 2020
Can anyone recommend an upgrade? I am looking at an RTX3070 (when I can find one), but just wanted to check that something else wouldnt be slowing the system down (it's fairly old):
Intel Core i7 4770k 3.8Ghz
Gigabyte G1 Sniper
16GB RAM (2x8GB DDR3 1866mhz)
GTX 1070 (upgraded from 780Ti a few years back)
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I'm thinking if anything, the bottleneck would be the processor, but if I were to replace this, what would be the recommendation? and would I need a new motherboard?
Comment by Pashley300 at 02/12/2020 at 16:12 UTC*
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I would definitely agree on the fact that the CPU would cause quite a bottleneck. Although it does boost to 3.8Ghz, it has an old achitecture and it uses DDR3 memory.
I think that you need more than just a CPU upgrade, and would also need Motherboard and ram upgrade.
Don't forget that the RTX 3070 is roughly the same performance as a 2080TI.
Sorry to bring quite negative news, but for such a GPU and such an old existing system, I will just build a whole new PC.
Now as for recommendations, i would go for AMD 3000series since they are good value and have very descent performance.
Comment by OolonCaluphid at 02/12/2020 at 15:50 UTC
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What monitor do you run?