Thinking of upgrading computer

[Commanderski]

How much of an improvement would I see from going from a Dell XPS 8700 I7 4770 4 core 3.4 GHZ with 16 Gig of ram and NVIDIA GTX 645 graphics card upgrading to a Dell XPS 8930 4.6 GHZ 6 core with 32 Gig ram and NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics card?

The games currently run great with the exception of the very large scenarios which take a while to load and seem very slow when scrolling to different parts of the battlefield.

Would it be worth the upgrade?

 

Edited December 18, 2019 by Commanderski

[Schrullenhaft]

For the loading, an SSD may help (which you don't mention if that is part of the upgrade). However drive loading times are only a part of what is happening when a scenario/map loads. The additional cores on the CPU will not make a difference to the CM games (for most things), however there are a few things that are coded up in CM where multi-cores are utilized, with scenario loading being one of them. The effect may be pretty marginal though (i.e. - you may only notice a slight improvement).

The speed up from 3.4GHz to 4.6GHz (I assume that this is actually the 'turbo' speed of the new CPU) should provide a noticeable difference, along with the slight improvements that have been made between the CPU generations. The CM series is primarily CPU-bound, so faster CPU cores make the biggest differences (including for graphics, to a certain extent). This Userbenchmark between an i7 9700K and an i7 4770 gives approximately a 35% improvement in single-core benchmarks with the i7 9700K, which would give you a very rough idea of how much faster it might be for CM (though probably a little less so).

The extra memory won't make a difference to CM directly, but could help things when you have other programs loaded up, etc. The CMX2 series supports a max of 4GB of RAM since they're 32-bit applications (under Windows, 64-bit under MacOS).

The videocard will probably only make a slight difference, but it MIGHT make map scrolling just a little faster (assuming it is a GTX 1050 or better). Very large/complex maps are still likely to stutter, but the improvement may be noticeable with even these maps.

 

Edited December 18, 2019 by Schrullenhaft