Time for an upgrade?

[infuze]

Hi all,

I purchased this PC around 2 years ago and I am looking to make some upgrades. I mostly use the rig for gaming, online poker and occasionally streaming whilst doing either of these activities.

I do find that when playing games, the PC it will occasionally stick, i'll move the mouse / cross hairs and everything will freeze for a few seconds. It was suggested to me that I was running the frames to high for my monitor however I always enable V-Sync and run the games at the frame rate for my monitor.

Case	THERMALTAKE V200 TEMPERED GLASS RGB EDITION GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)	Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor i7-8700k (3.7GHz) 12MB Cache
Motherboard	ASUS® PRIME Z370-P II: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)	16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card	3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP
1st Storage Drive	NOT REQUIRED
1st M.2 SSD Drive	128GB ADATA SU800 M.2 2280 (560 MB/R, 300 MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive	NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply	CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable	1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling	CoolerMaster Hyper 212X (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste	STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card	ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking	WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
USB/Thunderbolt Options	MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS

My initial thoughts were to either upgrade the GPU however I feel the games are running fine for my 60Hz monitor and this may be overkill. The second option being to install another 2 8gb RAM sticks.

Keen for everyones thoughts... I am aware that I will be told to upgrade that monitor before I do anything else...

infuze

 

[Charlas]

If its 'hitching' then there's more than a good chance windows needs flattening and re-installing, people should realise it needs doing every now and again as just maintenance task, I do min every 6months but I install and remove a lot of software all the time, mac users have know this for years, most power users for macs have a 12 month rule, and Windows is no different.

Grab all the stuff you need to keep, download the latest Windows iso and plonk on USB, then FRESH install Windows (not in place upgrade, so from the boot menu),

Garantee your hitch will be gone, the games your playing aren't very demanding, in fact bet the iGPU could handle them for you, the 1060 isn't however very powerful nowadays, it's the 3gb ram that hurts it most, as most games use 4gb vram at least (and AMD have said recently the days of 4gb are over and 6 should be min)

Jumping to one of the 16 or 20 cards would be night and day better for anything that does use gpu, and windows will shortly get the ability to use the Gpu cores for scheduling, so worth it if you ask me.

As for the rest, the 8700k is basically the same part as the current 10500k part for the most part, so that's still upto the task.

But honestly, try a re install (even try a side by side install if you must, either on second disk or create a test partition) I bet the hickups will be gone, frame rates however can only be fixed with a new gpu