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Upgrading For My Birthday

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Today is my 18th birthday. As a present for this I am allowed to spend $400 on upgrading my pc in any way that I see fit. I almost solely use my system for gaming at the moment but will be bringing it to college and will want to maintain some productive capabilities. I am fairly satisfied with the current performance of my system and would not be apposed to cosmetic or non-performance enhancing upgrades. My current system is:

GPU: MSI GTX 1060 6GB

CPU: AMD RYZEN 1600X 

Storage: 1TB Segate harddrive and 1TB Samsung SSD 

RAM: 16GB of DDR4

 

It is all in a tempered glass cooler master case. My build theme is black and red. I currently have no cosmetic components. I am not apposed to any ideas, including a custom water loop, even if cosmetics is their only true purpose. Thank you for your suggestions.

 

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How much RAM do you have? 

If you already have 16GB (or more) then you'd just be better off saving the money. 

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Sorry I forgot to add my ram in the original post. Keep in mind please that I do not have the option to save any money, as the money that I do not use i lose.

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You might want to get the Ryzen 7 2700 or an RTX 2060. I would personally go for the RTX card over the CPU due to the one you have still being pretty good. And If you dont want either maybe get a VR Rig.

Home Base : Ryzen 5 2400G - ASROCK HDV R4.0 B450M -  Corsair Vengance Pro RGB 2x8GB @3200Mhz - Sapphire Pulse RX 5700XT - WB Black (2018) 500GB NVME SSD - 250GB WD (P.O.S.) HDD - 250GB LITEONIT SSD - Cougar MX330 ATX Tower - EVGA SuperNOVA 750 GQ 750W Gold- Razer Deathaddder Elite - Corsair K55 RGB Keyboard

 

 

 

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Just now, OmicronEta said:

 

You might want to get the Ryzen 7 2700 or an RTX 2060. I would personally go for the RTX card over the CPU due to the one you have still being pretty good. And If you dont want either maybe get a VR Rig.

Isnt it true that the rtx 2060 is not a huge improvement over the gtx 1060? Would that be a waste of some of the money? I already own an oculus rift setupm

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And if you do want more ram It might be a generally good idea.

Home Base : Ryzen 5 2400G - ASROCK HDV R4.0 B450M -  Corsair Vengance Pro RGB 2x8GB @3200Mhz - Sapphire Pulse RX 5700XT - WB Black (2018) 500GB NVME SSD - 250GB WD (P.O.S.) HDD - 250GB LITEONIT SSD - Cougar MX330 ATX Tower - EVGA SuperNOVA 750 GQ 750W Gold- Razer Deathaddder Elite - Corsair K55 RGB Keyboard

 

 

 

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6 minutes ago, OmicronEta said:

 

You might want to get the Ryzen 7 2700 or an RTX 2060. I would personally go for the RTX card over the CPU due to the one you have still being pretty good. And If you dont want either maybe get a VR Rig.

No, the RTX performs similarly to a GTX 1070, at a similar price point. Which is also an option if you don't need RTX

Home Base : Ryzen 5 2400G - ASROCK HDV R4.0 B450M -  Corsair Vengance Pro RGB 2x8GB @3200Mhz - Sapphire Pulse RX 5700XT - WB Black (2018) 500GB NVME SSD - 250GB WD (P.O.S.) HDD - 250GB LITEONIT SSD - Cougar MX330 ATX Tower - EVGA SuperNOVA 750 GQ 750W Gold- Razer Deathaddder Elite - Corsair K55 RGB Keyboard

 

 

 

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