Are my pc specs outdated

[BigTang_R500_IRELAND]

I currently have a lenovo y700 desktop pc. It has a gtx1070 and and i5 6400. I think it has 16gb ram and a hardrive not sure what size. I bought this pc about 4 years ago and im just wondering if its good enough to run games at max settings or worth upgrading any parts to get better performance or would i be better getting a custom built pc rather than upgrading the one i have. Any advice apreciated. Thanks.

[Cathulhu]

Depends on the game.
Yes, the specs are dated.
If it doesn't have an SSD, seriously, get one, put your OS on it. Makes a massive difference.

Upgrading, may be difficult. Pre-built PCs often use proprietary parts. So it could be an issue replacing your PSU and mainboard as they may not fit the case.

[Big Doniel]

At 1080p that 1070 is more than fine, you'll sacrifice a few settings here and there but 60fps at medium-high shouldn't be an issue.

The bottleneck is that CPU. If you could find a cheap 6700 that would be a sizeable upgrade, those extra 4 threads are a massive improvement. Ditto on the SSD recommendation too, it's arguably the biggest day-to-day upgrade you can make to a system.

[Illusion of Progress]

It's still really relevant. There situations where it's not (aiming for the highest frame rates/refresh rates on heavier titles) are ones you'd already be aware of and not having to ask about. in other words, it's fine for modest gaming.

The weak point is the CPU, being a quad core without any extra threads, but if you're not finding your frame rates stuttering too low, then it's not a problem.

Publicado originalmente por Big Doniel:

The bottleneck is that CPU. If you could find a cheap 6700 that would be a sizeable upgrade, those extra 4 threads are a massive improvement.

Agree on fact alone, but unfortunately, pricing of the Core i7s from the quad core era, especially those from the 6th and 7th generation, makes upgrading to them a rather waste. They typically go for $150+ (at least looking at eBay buy it now prices in the US), which is more for an aged, used quad core than it is for a new and faster one (Core i3 10100 is a bit over $100 typically I think), and is near the price of a hex core (Core i5 10400/F).

I know that'd require a new board, but with the inflated price of the 6th and 7th generation, if you're sitting on one and looking to upgrade, you'd be smarter selling your board and lesser CPU to fund the new board, and then put the same money you would have on the old 6th/7th generation CPU on a new and faster one. I know this is a bit less applicable for OP since they have a pre-built which may or may not take any off the shelf motherboard (which would then require a new Windows purchase) and would reduce the sell cost of the existing board, but the high cost of the CPUs from that generation makes it hard to recommend. It's just not worth $150 to $200 to put in a quad core to replace another quad core while just gaining threads IMO, not when 50% more CPU (more than that really as it's also faster) is around the same cost. If you're having to overpay that much for the convenience of something working in your existing board, then is it really doing any favors? I had to make this same decision on whether I wanted to look at a 2600K/2700K/3770K. Sometimes it's worth sitting on what you have until you can save for better.

All this being said, if OP is fine where they are then there is no issue to keep using it so they don't even have to upgrade. I was using a Core i5 2500K last year. Those older Intel Core CPUs STILL have some life in them.

[Agent]

Yes, 11th gen or 10th gen intel along with an RTX card will be over a 50% performance gain. Average fps, and low fps will be far greater. Current generation you pay less for more cores, clock speed, and IPC. Additionally you get hyperthreading in i3 and i5 chips. Excellent value for CPU's nowadays.

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

Plenty good answers, so Im gonna keep this short.

Publicado originalmente por gamehunter09:

I bought this pc about 4 years ago and im just wondering if its good enough to run games at max settings

No way. Like already mentioned by other users, you can get 50-60FPS on mid-high settings @1080p with todays AAA games AT BEST.

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Publicado originalmente por gamehunter09:

worth upgrading any parts to get better performance or would i be better getting a custom built pc rather than upgrading the one i have. Any advice apreciated. Thanks.

Sure. If your goal is too enjoy games like theyre meant to be enjoyed with max. settings, (without offending people, who use older GPUs), there is no way around an upgrade. And when I say "upgrade", I mean a new custom system, since the CPU with bottleneck your new GPU. Heck, even some of them Haswell ones are better than the 6400....

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

Well the cpu is a bit older but should get the job done.
A 1070 is still a more than enough gpu during the gpu shortage.
And if your os is installed on an hdd.
reinstall windows on an ssd, because having the os on a hdd especially on windows is a nightmare.
And if you don't know how much ram you have.
Type task manager on the windows search bar. performance or how it's called in english. and see if it has 8 or 16.
16 is more than enough, except if you are a video editor or have lots of programms open at the same time.

[Soulreaver]

I'd say for an substantial upgrade you atleast want to go for an RTX 2070Super/3060ti or better.
On AMD side that'd be 5700XT or better.

On CPU side you'd probably atleast go for i7 8700 or better although you probably would want an i9 9900 or i7 10700.
On AMD side that'd be r5 3600 or better but preferably r7 3700.

16GB RAM is fine acceptable if you go for the lowerend picks if you go for the "performance" picks you'd probably want to have 32GB.

You also want an SSD Drive in your new system. min. 250GB but preferably you'd want atleast 500GB. If you safe a lot of movies or similar things on your PC you'd want 1TB or more.

Depending on what you are able to find such a system prebuilt could range between 1600-2000$ Maybe a bit more. And will give you ~+50% or more performance.

There's still a lot to tingle to adjust the price downward depending on what you use it for but this would be my more or less general recommendation.

So you might now have a somewhat estimate if you should upgrade what performance to expect and what it would cost you.

[Agent]

Publicado originalmente por AiR-Soulreaver:

I'd say for an substantial upgrade you atleast want to go for an RTX 2070Super/3060ti or better.
On AMD side that'd be 5700XT or better.

On CPU side you'd probably atleast go for i7 8700 or better although you probably would want an i9 9900 or i7 10700.
On AMD side that'd be r5 3600 or better but preferably r7 3700.

16GB RAM is fine acceptable if you go for the lowerend picks if you go for the "performance" picks you'd probably want to have 32GB.

You also want an SSD Drive in your new system. min. 250GB but preferably you'd want atleast 500GB. If you safe a lot of movies or similar things on your PC you'd want 1TB or more.

Depending on what you are able to find such a system prebuilt could range between 1600-2000$ Maybe a bit more.

There's still a lot to tingle to adjust the price downward depending on what you use it for but this would be my more or less general recommendation.

Why on earth would you buy a i7 8700 when you can pay less than half and get an i5 10400F which gets the exact same performance?

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

your specs better then mine so i say youre fine
my desky is fx8350 with gtx 1060 and it still works fine so yours should work better then mine
i do notice some slowndown that my lappy with ryzen 5 3550 and gtx 1050 are faster in

[Soulreaver]

Publicado originalmente por Rock Head:

Publicado originalmente por AiR-Soulreaver:

I'd say for an substantial upgrade you atleast want to go for an RTX 2070Super/3060ti or better.
On AMD side that'd be 5700XT or better.

On CPU side you'd probably atleast go for i7 8700 or better although you probably would want an i9 9900 or i7 10700.
On AMD side that'd be r5 3600 or better but preferably r7 3700.

16GB RAM is fine acceptable if you go for the lowerend picks if you go for the "performance" picks you'd probably want to have 32GB.

You also want an SSD Drive in your new system. min. 250GB but preferably you'd want atleast 500GB. If you safe a lot of movies or similar things on your PC you'd want 1TB or more.

Depending on what you are able to find such a system prebuilt could range between 1600-2000$ Maybe a bit more.

There's still a lot to tingle to adjust the price downward depending on what you use it for but this would be my more or less general recommendation.

Why on earth would you buy a i7 8700 when you can pay less than half and get an i5 10400F which gets the exact same performance?

This was a performance indication not a model indication. He want's to buy prebuilt so there are plenty of CPU's having equal performance but are maybe not sold in the prebuilts where he lives and prices may vary. You can disagree with my approach that's fine.

[Agent]

Publicado originalmente por AiR-Soulreaver:

Publicado originalmente por Rock Head:

Why on earth would you buy a i7 8700 when you can pay less than half and get an i5 10400F which gets the exact same performance?

This was a performance indication not a model indication. He want's to buy prebuilt so there are plenty of CPU's having equal performance but are maybe not sold in the prebuilts where he lives and prices may vary. You can disagree with my approach that's fine.

I agree with everything else there, and I'd specify to get an NVMe over SATA, superior technology with faster read and write speeds. Not only for productivity is it good to have, but games will probably utilise these speeds as time goes on.

Also I love the simplicity of it, no SATA cables dangling all over the case, just pop the stick into the motherboard and screw it in. Simple!

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Publicado originalmente por gamehunter09:

Are my pc specs outdated

Outdated only because there's newer gear. Not outdated in functionality though. That PC would easily play every single game that I own.
If you wanted a worthy upgrade you would have to replace the platform (motherboard, CPU, ram).
SSD is good but it doesn't do anything for gaming. Maybe just make the maps load faster.
I'm using a hard drive without issues. I wanted the huge amount of space.
I've got a wicked-fast 7200rpm data center hard drive that's sealed with helium and has a 512mb ram cache. Loading anything isn't an issue for me because it's literally almost as fast as a sata ssd. With 14 terabytes I'll never need space.
Cheers

[plat]

I would not compare those specs to much of anything that's current because you're bound to come up short in your own mind.

I consider my hardware "outdated." But it still plays very capably and that's all that matters. Sometimes the fact that I can't keep up with the Joneses viz new and more powerful hardware bugs me. But I can't change that nor do I truly need that right now so it's a non-issue.

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

Publicado originalmente por plat:

I would not compare those specs to much of anything that's current because you're bound to come up short in your own mind.

I consider my hardware "outdated." But it still plays very capably and that's all that matters. Sometimes the fact that I can't keep up with the Joneses viz new and more powerful hardware bugs me. But I can't change that nor do I truly need that right now so it's a non-issue.

same mines from 2015 but still serves decently

[A&A]

I think this is ok (only the cpu is, a kidna weak), but if you want to upgrade your PC

Two options
Better CPU which your mobo can support

Or

Well - New mobo, New CPU, New RAM