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There used to be enough variation between hardware generations coupled with questionable drivers that made a wipe and rebuild standard practice. Windows7 & 8 also had a habit of cruft-creation mainly from patching that a wipe & rebuild was a solid method of performance reclamation after 2 years...

I'm running an interesting experiment related to this. My mom's PC was a first-gen i3 that was starting to have uptime issues. After making sure the backup was current and creating a vm replica on my server, I swapped in a new i5, mb & ram, and turned it on. Win10 did quietly complain about...

If playing PC games is not a source of income and you don't have money to burn, scale everything back... I like to use the recommendations from Tom's Hardware as a general guide. Get an i5 cpu, K-series if you want to scratch the overclocking itch. Looks like a single 1080 is good for 4K...