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Replacing AMD A10-7860K CPU or adding dedicated Graphics Card question
Hello
This is a bit convoluted to me but may be bread and butter stuff for someone with more knowledge than me.
My wife recently upgraded her computer and I've inherited her:
AMD A7860K @ 3.6 GHZ CPU
Gigabyte GA-F2A88XN-WIFI v3.0 FM2 Motherboard
16gb RAM DDR3
SSD Drives
Windows 10 Home
I play around with midi - just as a hobby so I don't want to spend money without good cause.
There is only one PCI Express slot on the motherboard and that's taken up with my Firewire interface attached to a Behringer FCA1616. The Behringer is dual Firewire/USB.
Am I likely to notice an improvement if I use USB on the audio interface and use the PCI Express slot for a graphics card?
If I knew how to I'd overclock but I've never done that and don't want to fry anything.
I've tried to find out which CPU's I could upgrade to but I'm a bit confused with so many options available when I google.
I recently upgraded the RAM to 16gb from 8.
Any suggestions as to how to improve speed a bit will be gratefully received.