Upgrading components after experiencing lot's of crashing

dvdb · February 11, 2019

Hi,

Two years ago i've build my first PC. I was happy with it and it did everything i needed it to do.
Now after two years and multiple games failing on me while playing, i've decided i want to make it all better, make my pc worth it again.

The problems i've been experiencing in games are the following:

Games randomly shut down
Textures sometimes act weird, it will have small flashing green boxes for the entire time i run the game, until i restart it again.
Other glitches in game. For example the following one which i've experienced today during Apex Legends https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eG_20V1Dcih4LgtfZhoGZv...

It does not seem as much but i can't just play games i want to because of this. I will always crash and not be able to play. Sometimes before i even loaded the menu, other times randomly in game, and also sometimes whenever there is happening too much in the game.

My computer is build with the following parts:

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 w/ stock cooler
ASUS prime B350-plus
Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666-DDR4 (2x4gb), this is not sure. I lost the box and can't see it in my order history.
Gigabyte Windforce 1060 3gb OC
Seasonic M12II EVO 520W
Samsung evo 860
WD 1tb HDD

The parts i've been thinking about of getting are the following (to both upgrade, and hopefully solve my problems)

MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Armor 8G < Obviously to upgrade my graphics card.
Corsair Vengeane LPX 3000-ddr4 (2x4gb) < i don't know if the frequency rate really matters that much, if it does: Should i get 16gb of 3000, or 16gb of 2666? Since i already have two sticks of 2666 memory
Corsair RMx Series RM650x < I've read by the productspecifications of the rtx2070 that it needs 550Watts of power. My current powersupply can't deliver this much.

I'm sorry for the long thread. I tried to include as much information as possible.
As you can see, i have not much experience with building pc's. And probably most of the people will think this is not a good build at all. Thats why i try to improve it now.

The questions i have are:
Will these new components help me in solving my issues which i have?
Are there other things for me to do better? Or to look out for?
Even if it's not a good solution to just randomly buy new hardware without knowing if it fixes things, i want to upgrade my pc anyways. Will these components be good for it?

Anyways; Thanks regards!

Terabyte_272 · February 11, 2019

An upgrade is always nice for a system but I would reinstall windows 10 before you go pour more money into a system without a clue as to why you have random crashes. I dont know everything about ryzen but I know that it can be picky with ram so who knows that may be the issue. Again though I would reinstall windows first.

Terabyte_272 · February 11, 2019

For example my pc had some weird issue where it would take forever to boot and also would not always boot and would restart like starting a car in the winter. After a reinstall it fixed my issues.

dvdb · February 11, 2019

8 minutes ago, Terabyte_272 said:

For example my pc had some weird issue where it would take forever to boot and also would not always boot and would restart like starting a car in the winter. After a reinstall it fixed my issues.

Thanks! I'll try that later today. It would indeed help me deciding what ram to use. The thing about my ram is:i never seem to have much problems with it. It never really hits 100%, the most it seems to use is like 7gb out of 8gb ram. Maybe this is not even related to it. Thanks anyway, i'll give it a try later today!