Is my PC beginning to show it's age?

[Llamatron]

I put this together getting on for 5 years ago and wondered if you guys think it's in dire need of upgrading, and what you would recommend. Here are my specs, thanks in advance.

Operating System Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU Intel Core i5 4570 @ 3.20GHz
RAM 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard MSI B85-G43 (MS-7816) (SOCKET 0)
GPU 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (MSI)
Storrage 1863GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH164 (SATA)
465GB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 (SATA)
1863GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER164 (SATA)
PSU Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020048-UK)
Monitor ASUS VE247 24inch 1080p

[vadim]

You need to upgrade only if you cannot get desired FPS at desired settings in your games. Do you have any low framerate problems now? Your rig is still decent mid-level gaming PC.

[emoticorpse]

You always needed an upgrade if you never had an SSD.

[Malygos]

Originally posted by Team Shrimpy:

I put this together getting on for 5 years ago and wondered if you guys think it's in dire need of upgrading, and what you would recommend. Here are my specs, thanks in advance.

Operating System Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU Intel Core i5 4570 @ 3.20GHz
RAM 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard MSI B85-G43 (MS-7816) (SOCKET 0)
GPU 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (MSI)
Storrage 1863GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH164 (SATA)
465GB Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 (SATA)
1863GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER164 (SATA)
PSU Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020048-UK)
Monitor ASUS VE247 24inch 1080p

No i would not upgrade right now pretty much everything is over priced a 970 should still be fine in games 8gb of ram and your cpu might be slowing you down since its only got 4 threads id try overclocking it as long as your cooling allows. As long as you are getting frame rates/settings you are fine with then id try to squeeze the last little bit of out it by overclocking before upgrading

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Up to you.

The lack of SSD is most responsible it booting and doing Windows stuff feel bad. If you get it with the Web browser then both SSD and your RAM amount.

In games if you drop settings enough the GTX 970 still is ok.

Quad-core is still pretty fine. 3.2-3.6 GHz is lower than i7 8700 4.3-4.6 though and more with the K model and OC plus that one have a 50% more cores and can run 12 threads rather than 4 at the same time. So it's better and will be capable to run games better and be better for streaming and such but for most games your likely just held back a bit.

SSD and more RAM would make it nicer but for games I assume you can run almost everything just a bit slower than what the best parts allow you.

[FeilDOW]

You are well balanced, in heavy CPU games like AC:O the i5 would show a limitation with a 1070/1080 but not so bad with a 970.

If you are unhappy with performance than upgrade but if you have no issues save some more cash and wait for some components to come down in price

[Andrius227]

Yup, ssd is the best upgrade for any pc. Its literally lifechanging. I would also add another 8gb of ram.

Your cpu and gpu are fine. I myself still have an old pc with i7-2600 and a gtx1080 and it doesnt bottleneck at all. Upgrading cpus is quite pointless unless you have some ancient amd fx or intel core 2 quad...

[Monk]

As long as it still performs as you want, then ,no need, if it doesn't, then, yeah, if you have the cash, you can make a few sizeable upgrades.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

If you upgrade ram look for used.

[Omega]

I highly recommend against buying used RAM. Most of the time when RAM is sold used it is broken.

[Ez Duzit]

As everyone said if it still does what you want it to, in an acceptable way then it's fine. But if you want a little more out of it, or you're getting upgrade fever, for less then $500 you can throw in an i7 4790, another 8 gigs of ram and an ssd and you should be good for a while longer. And if pick up a used i7 4790 on ebay from reputable source you can get everythign for less then $400. But thats only if you got the fever and don't want to start from scratch