Salutations, nerd herd!
TL;DR: just skip to nitty-gritty
Hope you're all doing well with your circumstances these days. Thanks for taking the time to help or even check in.
Just to pre-face, I really try to not be lazy but when it comes to PC hardware, I'm a bit clueless. I try my hardest to learn just what I need in order to figure out what upgrade works, but I just never do it because there are so many variables that I never feel confident enough to follow through. I don't have anyone else to ask, and if this doesn't work out I'll just have to ship/carry the tower to a pro somewhere.
So I bought an PREDATOR G3-710 Gaming PC from Curry's like 2 years ago. I did enough basic research, it looked good and I was pretty hyped. Though it seems that while I can run most games pretty well, the PC is really struggling when it comes to the CPU. It could also use an upgrade from DDR4 8GB -> 16GB (or 24GB if I find a good 2x8GB deal? Might just give one stick away to someone cause 24 GB sounds overkill).
Now, why do I want to upgrade? I'll try to not blow your mind with my unique idea™, but I'm going to give this streaming/video editing shtick a swing before it gets too overcrowded, y'know
I might as well add that this is the first tower PC I bought for like 10 years, I wanted to downgrade the **** OS AFAIR and I didn't realise how bad the warez scene (so to say) had become. I f'd myself enough that the computer didn't load explorer.exe, instead it just loaded cmd and I had to write explorer.exe. Reformatting/reinstalling windows was such an obtuse, failing mess because of what I had done that it caused me to not deal with it until like 2 months ago. I feel like I can never really know if this has maybe damaged something, and I'm just 90% the PC is clean now.
The nitty-gritty:
AFAIU is relevant
(please ask if you need more, and thanks for your time), specs:
PSU: ps-7501-5
Mboard: Predator G3-710
CPU: Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz, 3000 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
RAM: crucial ddr4 2400 8gb
bonus info
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Cooling seems pretty good? I feel like a pleb writing "IceTunnel thermal system"
My questions:
So I want to be able to smoothly play modern games on high (not necessarily ULTRA) quality while also streaming/recording from my computer using OBS (ok sorry it's SLOBS). I also want to open up the PC's possibilities for video compiling and other workhorse activity like that. From what I gather, I direly need a new CPU and more RAM.1) What upgrades do you recommend I get?
I will try to check out deals regularly. If several suggestions are offered, I'm first humbled by your generosity, then I can also check out more offers, and maybe understand myself what I'm looking for.
2) Can my current-, or maybe future suggested hardware, be reasonably overclocked?
From what I gather, "lol no only K processors can overclock" regarding the CPU at least. Haven't even looked into the GPU. This is also new territory for me so I'm taking baby steps.
This might be the first time I go out asking for help like this since being in a cool IRC channel as a kid, so just want to really convey that I 100% appreciate all your knowledge, any time invested and also spent.
Wishing y'all a great day!
