>> My current system has an i7-3770 @3.40GHz and 4 Cores, 8 logical processors (threads?) and
>> I often max it out.
How do you know you have maxed it out? are you running the intel drag prog?
>> Is that because it is a Gen 3 (Ivy Bridge?) and that I need to
>> move much further into the modern world?
yes that a long way back.
>> Given that the Motherboard has an LGA1155 socket I assume that I need to change
>> it to be able to select a newer Gen Intel, or indeed for an AMD?
I always change CPU & Motherboard together. Intel CPUS change their socket configuration more often than I change my socks. AMD ditto tho less often. So I always make sure the two are compatible.
>> The graphics card is a GTX 1650 so that ought to be ok.
Yup, its very similar to my RX470 in price/performance point.
>> The PC has 16GB RAM, though the RAM is DDR3 and probably running at some
>> pitiful speed, so I'm thinking the Motherboard, CPU and RAM were quite good but now
>> are just old-tech.
Newer gen cpus /mb will be DDR4. DDR3 is quite old tech now.
>> Is there a Gen you would recommend I move to, given that I'll be changing
>> anyway and assuming that I go Intel? Or at least a minimum Gen?
Looking at three points. that you want intel, price, and given your location, availability, I would go
Intel i7 I9700, Gen 9 Socket 1151, Coffee Lake Refresh, 8 Core, 8 Thread, 3.0GHz, with a
ASUS PRIME motherboard Socket 1151, DDR4, SATA3, USB 3.1
and I would be paying no more than 350 dollars total for those two.
Have we told you abut M2 hard drives yet???????????
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