Looking to upgrade my CPU for a little performance boost

[Dr. House]

Nothing major, just a little upgrade so I can run games like Rust and Tarkov smoother with more stable FPS and no stutters or framedrops. I believe the issue lies in my CPU, but I am not quite sure since I am really a computer noob! :D

These are my specs:

Motherboard: H510M-A PRO
GPU: AMD RX 6600
CPU: Intel i5-10400F

What do you guys think? Should I need to upgrade to a new CPU or does it need to be a new GPU aswell?

[Dr. House]

Opprinnelig skrevet av _I_:

H510M-A PRO
this board is really going to hold back any stronger cpu
no vrm heatsinks, 7 phases total,
probably 4 to cpu cores ~80w max to cpu cores before it will throttle

keep the stock cooler on it to cool the board to help prevent it from throttling

the i5 10400f may even be too much for the board to properly handle at full load
intel says 65w, but newer cpus can draw over double what they say

the intel h x10 boards are really designed for office tasks and an i3 or pentium g cpu

Wow! I did not know all that, thanks for all the info! I think I really got ripped off when I bought the PC, but I was in a dark time and just wanted to escape reality, therefore went on to get the fastest deal as possible. My next PC will be self build ..

[Mr White]

You could try an Core i7 1070K or i9 10900K a ten core processor. And if your motherboard allows an 11th gen

[r.linder]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Quad Core Gaming:

You could try an Core i7 1070K or i9 10900K a ten core processor. And if your motherboard allows an 11th gen

H510M-A PRO doesn't have the VRM to handle more than a 65W CPU, the K SKUs would be completely wasted on it. Even a 10700F or 10900F would be a bit much at full load.

Yes it does support 11th gen, it was released alongside Rocket Lake. The most feasible upgrade that won't put too much on the board is the 11400F

[BurakZG]

I have similar graphic card: RX 6600 XT (so a bit better).

I recently upgraded processor from Ryzen 3400G to Ryzen 5600. With respect of gaming performance I have noticed NO improvement at all. Really. Don't be fooled by "processor bottleneck nonsense". That is not aplicable in your situation.

Regarding that motherboard. It's true that it's limiting the processor, but the results are not as big as you might expect. My son has i7 10700 on such board (HP Pavillion). He doesn't have any problems because of limiting chipset/MB. His PC scores normal on benchmarks. Paired with Nvidia 2060Super it is very similar to mine.

Honestly, Radeon 6600 is a nice graphic card, but rather on lower end. If you want to push graphics more you need better GPU (not CPU).

Random stutters are probably caused by something else than processor. You need to start investigating, but it will not be easy.

[Guydodge]

Opprinnelig skrevet av r.linder:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Quad Core Gaming:

You could try an Core i7 1070K or i9 10900K a ten core processor. And if your motherboard allows an 11th gen

H510M-A PRO doesn't have the VRM to handle more than a 65W CPU, the K SKUs would be completely wasted on it. Even a 10700F or 10900F would be a bit much at full load.

Yes it does support 11th gen, it was released alongside Rocket Lake. The most feasible upgrade that won't put too much on the board is the 11400F

hes a gamer,you will rarely if ever use full load on a cpu.but thxs for playing.
and needing massive vrm is only a sales gimmick most boards including everyone
ive ever purchased are overkill it will handle the upgrade just fine.yes you will have
to cool it properly just as you would with any other setup.

[Freqsync]

Opprinnelig skrevet av The Rizzler™:

The Rizzler™ Nov 8 @ 7:37pm
Looking to upgrade my CPU for a little performance boost

OS?
functions of
tiles disable,
search box suggestions disable,
during gaming volume shadow copy disable maybe its set to not work during play
check eventvwr
windowed modes
clamp gpu settings

At some point upgrading is standard
6 core is fine yet things of standard gone way beyond
8gb gpu has become very much standard
16 gb of ram

do the math is 8K monitor in your future, sony thinks so with ps5pro.