Budget (including currency): $1500 (CAD)
Country: Canada
Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Games: Fortnite, Halo Infinite, Euro Truck Sim 2, Random games from Xbox Game pass for PC. Other programs: OBS, Chrome (I'm one of THOSE people who has 20+ tabs because I don't want to close them and lose them and I forget that there is a bookmark button), FB messenger for Desktop and Discord for group chats, and some emulators (Citra, DeSmuME, etc)
Other details: I currently have a Ryzen 5 3600x paired with 32 GB of Corsair Vengeance ram in dual channel, an Asus 2060 super (not sure model as it came as part of a prebuilt I got a few years back), a 750 watt Thermaltake ToughPower series semi modular PSU on a ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Hero (wifi) MOBO. I have two Acer VG240Y S 1080p 165hz monitors via DisplayPort on my desk for gaming and streaming and a 4k Samsung TV running at 1440p 120hz from the HDMI for my content consumption.
So what I'm wondering is would upgrading to a 3070 ti get me any noticeable improvement on my streams and games or if I would be too bottlenecked by the CPU. If I would be too held back by the CPU I was looking at upgrading to the 5600x. I run my streams at 1080p 60fps while using Nvenc encoder and while I'm streaming I tend to also have a friend or two's stream open in the background and I run into problems where my game will crash or have crazy lag spikes (even when not streaming) while trying to also have streams or other things open for group chats. I am also one of those people who likes to try to run the games at their highest settings even if I am not getting the best framerates. The exact GPU I was looking at was the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 ti VISION OC 8G Graphics Card, 1830 MHz 3X WINDFORCE Fans, 8GB 256-bit GDDR6X, GV-N307TVISION OC-8GD G10 as it is currently one of the few 3000 series in stock locally and I don't have the money to step up to the 3080. The 3070 ti is $1,149 or bundled with the 5600x for $1,388. Should I wait for something like a 3060 or 3060 ti, is the 2060S good enough for now and I just need to look at a CPU upgrade, or is there something else that would better help stability while gaming/multitasking. Any recommendations would be awesome and feel free to ask questions in case I missed something.
