Current Build was pretty budget, so much so that upgrading it just seems to be a way better cost/benefit proposition than starting over again.
Current
Mobo - MSI H81-E33, micro ATX
Processor - i5-4430 @ 3.00ghz with stock cooler, constantly seems to hit full load these days and easily over 90 Celsius (via Speccy)
RAM - 16MB, 1600mhz Crucial Technology PC3-12800H
Graphics - ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Storage - SATA-III 6.0Gb/s, WDC WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 ATA Device
Mostly looking to play heavily modded minecraft (which is CPU dependent, single threaded), and not interested in any other games. I got a decent price on a used i7-4790k for $200.
Questions
1) Not entirely sure the exact demands for modded minecraft, but after talking to some others who play with 4690k, they said they had a hard time getting above 40 fps. My 4430 was around 70 fps upon playing a new world and as it progressed it would get down to 10-15fps, or became a slideshow when I was streaming. The awkward part is that I could alt+tab out of the game pretty quickly, or still browse casually, I'm assuming it was due to the poor single thread performance. Are there other CPU's that offer a better performance for value in the LGA 1150 slot? Remember that the main game I'm looking to play only really cares about single thread performance, but I do also want to stream.
2) Is there anything else I should consider looking into upgrading? I think my Mobo's BIOS is appropriate (ver 6.6), the RAM should be compatible, and unforunately it is also the highest frequency my mobo can take, I'm not even sure if upgrading the ram frequency will add much to performance improvement.
3) I mostly use the GPU to encode the stream to remove the stress off the CPU, and I'm happy with the video quality it produces (even though it is 720p at 30fps, I wanted to upgrade the CPU first before trying out 1080p at 60fps). I'm not really sure how this video card handles encoding at all, I just choose the AMD encoding over x264 in OBS settings, is this worth upgrading?
4) Bonus question, just recently got an MXL v88 Condenser Mic for about $50 and Scarlett Focusrite Solo for $70, are there any other pieces of hardware I should look into upgrading or can my current computer just handle these peripherals as they are?
5) Right now current cost is $200, I can move to an entirely new build but I don't really care about upgrade paths in the future or opportunity costs, I just want to stream modded minecraft without it turning into a slideshow, and having good audio, is it still worth it to move to a new build?
Current
Mobo - MSI H81-E33, micro ATX
Processor - i5-4430 @ 3.00ghz with stock cooler, constantly seems to hit full load these days and easily over 90 Celsius (via Speccy)
RAM - 16MB, 1600mhz Crucial Technology PC3-12800H
Graphics - ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Storage - SATA-III 6.0Gb/s, WDC WD10EZEX-00BN5A0 ATA Device
Mostly looking to play heavily modded minecraft (which is CPU dependent, single threaded), and not interested in any other games. I got a decent price on a used i7-4790k for $200.
Questions
1) Not entirely sure the exact demands for modded minecraft, but after talking to some others who play with 4690k, they said they had a hard time getting above 40 fps. My 4430 was around 70 fps upon playing a new world and as it progressed it would get down to 10-15fps, or became a slideshow when I was streaming. The awkward part is that I could alt+tab out of the game pretty quickly, or still browse casually, I'm assuming it was due to the poor single thread performance. Are there other CPU's that offer a better performance for value in the LGA 1150 slot? Remember that the main game I'm looking to play only really cares about single thread performance, but I do also want to stream.
2) Is there anything else I should consider looking into upgrading? I think my Mobo's BIOS is appropriate (ver 6.6), the RAM should be compatible, and unforunately it is also the highest frequency my mobo can take, I'm not even sure if upgrading the ram frequency will add much to performance improvement.
3) I mostly use the GPU to encode the stream to remove the stress off the CPU, and I'm happy with the video quality it produces (even though it is 720p at 30fps, I wanted to upgrade the CPU first before trying out 1080p at 60fps). I'm not really sure how this video card handles encoding at all, I just choose the AMD encoding over x264 in OBS settings, is this worth upgrading?
4) Bonus question, just recently got an MXL v88 Condenser Mic for about $50 and Scarlett Focusrite Solo for $70, are there any other pieces of hardware I should look into upgrading or can my current computer just handle these peripherals as they are?
5) Right now current cost is $200, I can move to an entirely new build but I don't really care about upgrade paths in the future or opportunity costs, I just want to stream modded minecraft without it turning into a slideshow, and having good audio, is it still worth it to move to a new build?
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