UPDATE - 03/12/2024: Thank you to all who commented, at the reasonable cost of under £300, ive upgraded to the i5-12400F, MSI B760M Board, and 32GB of Crucial DDR5 6000 RAM and I am seeing a significant increase across the board in load times and frame rates. Thank you to everyone for their advice!

Yeah dude, the house is not mine, so im not about to start making holes in walls, or have cables running around the floors. Thanks for the suggestion though! :)

Thanks so much for the detailed advice! I think im definitely leaning towards the Mobo/CPU and then RAM upgrade path, for now the Wifi is decent enough for me as the D/L speeds are stable enough and I dont play online games, so latency/ping etc arent a major factor for me.

Thanks for the feedback. I agree, and this was my thinking too regarding the DDR5. Glad I wasnt barking up the wrong tree.

Thanks mate! Yeah, I was considering making the jump over to AMD, but with the imminent launches around the corner, it makes sense to wait and see when it comes to the GPU world.

Thanks for taking the time @Fusty@lemmy.ml, I will do some research on X870-E boards.

Yeah, thanks for the feedback @Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works but as @Omgpwnies@lemmy.world explains, im UK bound.

Thanks for the feedback guys!

I run at 1080p and mostly play big single player epics (GoW Ragnarok right now for example). 2k or higher support isnt needed right now as my monitors only support 1080p. Thanks for responding!

Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately running ethernet around the house isnt an option for me. The Wifi is decent enough, I get 160Mb to the house and the dongle picks up 80-90% of it most of the time, its just occasionally flaky.