question on upgrading my computer to play MHW, cpu or gpu ? or both ?

[Tony]

Hello,

I currently have:

i5 9400F
32GB DDR4 RAM
RTX 3060 Ti
I have the opportunity to upgrade to either:

i5 14600KF or
Ryzen 5 7600X
For a good price.

My question is: will upgrading the CPU or RAM make a significant difference, or is the performance mostly dependent on the GPU?

I tested the game with the benchmark, and I'm getting around 40-45 FPS on medium settings, and it doesn’t look very good.

I’ll be playing at 1080p as my monitor is not 4K.

Thanks for the advice!

[NeoX]

Originally posted by Tony:

Hello,

I currently have:

i5 9400F
32GB DDR4 RAM
RTX 3060 Ti
I have the opportunity to upgrade to either:

i5 14600KF or
Ryzen 5 7600X
For a good price.

My question is: will upgrading the CPU or RAM make a significant difference, or is the performance mostly dependent on the GPU?

I tested the game with the benchmark, and I'm getting around 40-45 FPS on medium settings, and it doesn’t look very good.

I’ll be playing at 1080p as my monitor is not 4K.

Thanks for the advice!

The thing is, i woudl highly recommend to go for the CPU upgrade since this seems to be the strongest bottleneck in this game. So i highly recommend a nearly last gen CPU with 8 (strong) cores or more. On the other side, it seems an equal strong bottleneck for the GPU seems to be having only 8GB of VRAM or less. So thats also something to consider.

[Tony]

thx for the answers

[Mythily]

if your choice is between only those 2 CPUs then the 14600K wins by a large margin.

[Tony]

thanks for the answers,

i was about to go for the intel because the combo motherboard + cpu is a bit cheaper

just for curiosity, not trying to start an intel / amd war, i checked several benchmark and the two cpu are really close in performance and price, why is the 14600k better ?

thx

[RotGoblin]

7600X has an upgrade path to the fastest gaming processor on todays market, if upgrading your PC means anything to you.

7600X's motherboard is capable of taking a 9800X3D with bios updates.

[NeoX]

Originally posted by Goblin:

7600X has an upgrade path to the fastest gaming processor on todays market, if upgrading your PC means anything to you.

7600X's motherboard is capable of taking a 9800X3D with bios updates.

Ehm... no. No BIOS setting can give you 2 additional physical cores and 4 more threads.
Also higher boost clock and not to forget the double L3 cache.

In no world you can "BIOS adjust a 7600X to the performance and calculation level of a 9800XD. Please even as a sarcasm joke, this is too stupid.

[RotGoblin]

Originally posted by NeoX:

Ehm... no. No BIOS setting can give you 2 additional physical cores and 4 more threads.
Also higher boost clock and not to forget the double L3 cache.

In no world you can "BIOS adjust a 7600X to the performance and calculation level of a 9800XD. Please even as a sarcasm joke, this is too stupid.

That motherboard socket is CAPABLE of UPGRADING to a 9800X3D.

I swear if people spent 2 seconds reading instead of trying to sound smart.

[MrSoul]

gpu, 100%
I'd aim for a 4080 or 7900XTX especially if looking towards 4k, runs well on my 7900 for example with FSR Q in 4k, locked at 60fps. If you're not playing 4k, like 2k or w/e prob even save some bucks look at a 4070, but personally? I'd aim for that 4080 level of perf.

Your proc is already overkill for the game fyi too, it barely moved needle on my 5950X and thats top line last gen right.

Originally posted by NeoX:

Originally posted by Goblin:

7600X has an upgrade path to the fastest gaming processor on todays market, if upgrading your PC means anything to you.

7600X's motherboard is capable of taking a 9800X3D with bios updates.

Ehm... no. No BIOS setting can give you 2 additional physical cores and 4 more threads.
Also higher boost clock and not to forget the double L3 cache.

In no world you can "BIOS adjust a 7600X to the performance and calculation level of a 9800XD. Please even as a sarcasm joke, this is too stupid.

wow, reading comprehension, do you do it? He's talking about the fact his mobo is an AM5 chipset, ie the same as the 9000 series, ie, he has a good upgrade path.

[NeoX]

Originally posted by Goblin:

Originally posted by NeoX:

Ehm... no. No BIOS setting can give you 2 additional physical cores and 4 more threads.
Also higher boost clock and not to forget the double L3 cache.

In no world you can "BIOS adjust a 7600X to the performance and calculation level of a 9800XD. Please even as a sarcasm joke, this is too stupid.

That motherboard socket is CAPABLE of UPGRADING to a 9800X3D.

I swear if people spent 2 seconds reading instead of trying to sound smart.

I am sorry i seem to have mixed up 2 messages i was replying too. My bad, won't happen again.