JamesStewy

Thanks @boggy77 and @GabrielLP14 for your help. I will investigate whether a 3600 is worth it for me tomorrow.

I get ya. Is it same to roughly correlate the improvement from a 2600 to a 3600 on a given GPU to the improvement I would see with a 1660 super or is it just too specific (and hence have to go out and find benchmarks for the exact combo of game, cpu and gpu)?

Can you recommend a method or website I could use to investigate this for the games I am interested in. gpucheck.com always comes up near the top of google but that site just feels a bit fishy to me.

How much of a performance improvement in game would you expect going to a 3600. A 3600 is typically over $100AUD (or 50%) more. For the power supply, would 550W be enough for reasonable future expansion given that I probably won't be going deep into overclocking?

Hey, I am planning out my first PC build to replace a very old and dying Dell tower. Minimum Goals Single 144Hz or faster 1080p monitor with VRR Rocket League at the monitors max refresh rate on or near the highest graphics settings Other games (Civ 5 & 6, Minecraft, Overwatch, Forza Horizon 4) at playable frame rates (don't mind turning the settings down a bit just not too far) General usage including coding (compiling, IDE, heavy web browsing) and light photo editing (like family photo level light) Nvidia GPU for some armchair deep learning (RTX is out of my price range though) Mini tower case So basically, I am looking for a 1080p, high refresh rate gaming system in a small-ish case. The absolute maximum I would want to spend is $1500AUD. Things I already have I already have a keyboard, mouse, 500GB Samsung 860 EVO 2.5" boot SSD and a copy of Windows 10. Current Part List Looking at benchmarks, any of the GTX 16xx series cards seem to fit my expectations on frame rates. Working from that, this is the current list of parts I am looking at: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor $198.00 @ Shopping Express Motherboard ASRock B450M Pro4-F Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $107.00 @ Skycomp Technology Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $108.00 @ Shopping Express Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $78.00 @ Centre Com Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6 GB OC Video Card $369.00 @ Mwave Australia Case Cooler Master MasterBox Lite 3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case $54.00 @ Shopping Express Power Supply Corsair CX (2017) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $66.00 @ Shopping Express Case Fan Silverstone FN121-P 58.47 CFM 120 mm Fan $7.00 @ Scorptec Monitor AOC 24G2 23.8" 1920x1080 144 Hz Monitor $247.00 @ Shopping Express Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $1234.00 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-02 21:59 AEDT+1100 All of these parts are available for $1334AUD from a single brick-and-mortar retailer (Scorptec) which is preferable but not necessary. One thing I am unsure about is the power supply. Does it come with all the different connectors I would need (Corsair's website is a bit light on info)? I have done my best to check that all the parts are compatible and come with all the necessary cables, but I would really appreciate having it looked over or any feedback on improvements. Thanks.