Upgrade CPU + MOBO or CPU only?

[NiTrusoXXiDe]

Hello all,

6 months back i built a PC for the first time. Im very happy with the specs that i chose except for a small mistake i made. I chose to have i5 7400 as my processor coupled with RX 580 attached on the b-250 asus MOBO. I had always intended to play all the latest AAA titles. I soon realized my cpu is a bottleneck when i installed Battlefield 1 and AC origins.

BF1 on large games with 64 players uses 100 CPU while gpu is only 70-80%. This causes low framerate, but, mainly it causes some sort of input lag with my mouse making the game unplayable. i am forced to play smaller sized games.

Question:
Should i sell my i5 7400 and get i7 7700. or should i sell both my cpu and mobo and get and 8th gen i7 and a mobo that supports it. Because my current mobo is lga1151 i believe which cant house an 8th gen CPU. which route is better in the long run (for the next 3-4 years).

Also is it safe to buy used CPUs? I live in Lahore. Any suggestions would be nice.

 

[mbk99]

Hello all,

6 months back i built a PC for the first time. Im very happy with the specs that i chose except for a small mistake i made. I chose to have i5 7400 as my processor coupled with RX 580 attached on the b-250 asus MOBO. I had always intended to play all the latest AAA titles. I soon realized my cpu is a bottleneck when i installed Battlefield 1 and AC origins.

BF1 on large games with 64 players uses 100 CPU while gpu is only 70-80%. This causes low framerate, but, mainly it causes some sort of input lag with my mouse making the game unplayable. i am forced to play smaller sized games.

Question:
Should i sell my i5 7400 and get i7 7700. or should i sell both my cpu and mobo and get and 8th gen i7 and a mobo that supports it. Because my current mobo is lga1151 i believe which cant house an 8th gen CPU. which route is better in the long run (for the next 3-4 years).

Also is it safe to buy used CPUs? I live in Lahore. Any suggestions would be nice.

i think you get a 7700 or a 8th gen 8700 with a 8th mobo (for the long Run), as 8th Gen Processors don't support previous Gen mobo's despite using the same 1151 socket.

But Personally i would recommend you a AMD Ryzen 1700 or 1600 over intel as more core and thread help in multitasking and CPU intensive games. and much more cheaper than Intel processors. Btw AMD will release Ryzen refresh in May i think, so you may want to wait a bit for it.

Also get atleast 16GB of high speed RAM and an SSD or Nvme drive to speed overall performance.