Upgrading my G1-710 (P) - 2016 Model

DiveGamer

Up until about 6 months ago my G1-710 has been running almost everything perfectly, excluding maybe one or two extremely high spec games. As of recently however I've had to lower my graphics settings on the majority of games I have been playing. Cyberpunk is coming out in less than two weeks, which I have been dying to play since it was originally announced in 2012. Unfortunately it seem that with the current CPU and GPU I'd have to play it on the very lowest settings, and that's assuming it even runs it smoothly then.

Can anyone give me suggestions on CPUs and GPU upgrades that might be compatible with the case and motherboard?

I've been trying to do my own research for the last few months, but I've been coming up with nothing, and just end up more confused. I have done PC builds myself in the past, but I can't seem to find the motherboard model or info on it anywhere, and therefore haven't been able to set my target on a specific GPU or CPU.

billsey

No, that's enough to get started on. You have already done the obvious with your SSD and that update is the biggest performance boost you'll be able to get. You can upgrade the 6th gen i5 to a 6th gen i7, such as the i7-6700 and as long as you keep the power budget the same you won't need to also upgrade the cooling. The i7-6700K is also possible, but the jump from 65W to 91W TDP means a corresponding upgrade for the cooling is needed. Your big boost between the i5 and i7 is number of simultaneous threads, 4 on the i5, 8 on the i7. You can't move to a 7th gen CPU or later without a different chipset, which would mean a new motherboard. The memory has quite a bit of room, maximum supported is 64GB with four 16GB sticks. DDR4-2133  is the speed the chipset supports, so buying faster memory doesn't do anything except cost more. The GPU is an obvious upgrade, gated mostly by your pocket book though watch for power requirements, you have those two funky 230W external power supplies and I don't know how feasible it would be to bump that to much higher... Some of the newest GPUs ask for quite a bit more than that...