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Similarly to a bunch of other posters on this page, my PC is a couple of years old and I'm wondering whether it's time to upgrade. Having said that I'm running Forza 4 at 1440p at ~70fps, Horizon Zero Dawn is having its usual sputters but runs OK at 1440p... tbc how CP2077 will perform but I can't imagine it'll be dreadful. Is there anything obvious I should fix / upgrade here? I'm on the fence about a new GPU right now, if new cards were available in a month or so then I'd wait but it sounds like it's likely to be Q1 2021 before anything mid-range comes out? Current specs per Speccy are below, all wrapped up in an Antec P182 with a Corsair PSU. I'll replace the PSU if/when I do a mobo/CPU/RAM upgrade. Operating System Windows 10 Home 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 7600K @ 3.80GHz 49 °C Kaby Lake 14nm Technology RAM 16.0GB Dual-Channel Corsair@ 1069MHz (15-15-15-36) Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME Z270-K (LGA1151) 114 °C Graphics DELL U2711 (2560x1440@144Hz) 27GL850 (2560x1440@144Hz) DELL U2412M (1920x1200@59Hz) 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (MSI) 46 °C Storage 931GB Samsung SSD 960 EVO 1TB (Unknown (SSD)) 9314GB Western Digital WDC WD100EMAZ-00WJTA0 (SATA ) 33 °C Optical Drives ASUS DRW-2014L1T Audio ASUS Xonar D2 Audio Device Any suggestions? Edit: other than checking the thermal sensor on my motherboard 
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Klyith posted:Can you grab CPU-Z and look at / post a screenshot of the memory tab? It says "channel #" in the upper right. If your memory is actually in single channel mode that's a big performance loss, which should be easy to fix. But speccy isn't totally accurate some times. CPU-Z is reporting "Channel #: Single" with the same timings so looks like I do need to fix that up!
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Klyith posted:If you have two sticks of memory all you need to do is move them around. Memory should go into slot 2 and 4, where 1 is closest to the CPU and 4 is furthest away. Fixed now! As it turns out slots 1&2 - documented in the motherboard manual as the correct slots for dual channel - do not support it. The sticks are now in slots 1 and 4 but I'm running in dual-channel mode so it's all good. I've updated my original post with updated timings etc.
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On PSU chat: I bought a Corsair RM650x PSU 3 and a half years ago. If I upgrade the rest of the system (motherboard, CPU, 3080) then I should be fine to re-use the PSU, right? (assuming power draw for the 3080 ends up where folk are predicting)
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Random post for any UK goons - just a heads up that you can get cashback on various Asus products, including motherboards, through till 22nd November: https://promotion.asus.com/en/uk/q4gamingweeks It brings down e.g. a Rog Strix B550-E from £210 RRP to £160 at Scan (which I'm going to pick up this week for my new build). Thought it might be useful to others too!
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zhar posted:Modified my list again, making sure it's still AOK. Two notes on this: 1) You can save the princely sum of £5 with this RAM instead (AFAICS it's the same thing): https://www.scan.co.uk/products/32gb-2x16gb-corsair-ddr4-vengeance-lpx-black-pc4-28800-3600-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-18-135v-amd-ryzen 2) If you buy before the 22nd you can get £30 cashback on the motherboard: https://www.scan.co.uk/shops/asus/gaming-weeks I placed a very similar order to yours earlier today 
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