Next Upgrade thoughts?

lingus · 30 Nov 2020 at 16:30

Hi All
Sorry for another what should i do threads, i have the below and have just upgraded to the 3070FE i had a Strix 1060 prior
I'm not sure what to upgrade next or at least swap out, i don't play games in the sense of PC games, but i do use for simulating VR pinball inside my Quest 2 as a PCVR headset, i also may do some physical Pinball machine streams with OBS.
I did think just upgrading the CPU to a 9xxx and more Ram would be more than adequate or should i swap out some internals to AMD

CoolerMaster MasterBox Q300L Micro-ATX Case
Intel Core i3-8100 3.6GHz
Asrock B360M Pro4 Intel B360
Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 2400MHz
Nvidia 3070FE GPU
Corsair RM850x 80 PLUS Gold

Thanks all for your time

mickyflinn · 30 Nov 2020 at 17:10

The easiest soloution is to drop in a 9 series cpu and more ram which cpu was you thinking ?

9400f would be a cheap upgrade with 2 extra cores would help with streaming.

lingus · 30 Nov 2020 at 21:05

Hi, yes 9400f isn’t a bad shout, it’s a nice little improvement over the 8100, Any thoughts on what 2x8gb ram sticks I should be looking for I don’t think I can find or really should be adding another 2 x 4gb sticks in.
Ta

mickyflinn · 30 Nov 2020 at 21:34

lingus said:
Hi, yes 9400f isn’t a bad shout, it’s a nice little improvement over the 8100, Any thoughts on what 2x8gb ram sticks I should be looking for I don’t think I can find or really should be adding another 2 x 4gb sticks in.
Ta

You could just add another 2x4gb of 2400mhz to what you already have, but if not your motherboard supports up to 2666mhz ram so 2x 8gb and sell your other stuff

lingus · 1 Dec 2020 at 08:41

ahh i didn't realise, thanks a lot