The long loads times are more to do with the HDD not GPU. An SSD would improve his load times a lot more than if he changed his GPU as it’s not really under powered.
Pretty sure it’s my CPU that’s causing long load times. I have a WD Blue 7200RPM drive that basically everyone has and most people with the same drive and a better CPU have much shorter load times.
In other news, the more important part is that he’s already clocking his CPU at 4.5ghz. I don’t think a new cpu would help his load times much if at all. Definitely think the HDD is the bottleneck here.
Clock speed isn’t the only thing that matters in a CPU. If you look at my 3dmark scores you’ll see the physics test, which is 100% CPU based, only scores 4000 points, whereas my GPU scored 12000.