Choosing good fitting GPU

[YumBlin]

I've wanted to build a gaming PC for a while now, but my dream is finally coming to fruition. My uncle has lent me a bunch of parts from his old computers, and I've been looking for good parts to put in and make it a high-end gaming PC. The parts I am getting or already have include: an ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 motherboard; an FX-6300 with the stock cooler; 32 GB of DDR3 (not sure of the frequency); an EVGA 600B non-modular PSU; and an old mid-tower case from 2007 with a top-mounted PSU. I'm mainly looking for recommendations on what GPU I should get for playing at max settings 60+ FPS. The two main games I play currently are War Thunder and Arma 3, though I enjoy all flight simulators and also hope to get into Escape from Tarkov. I was thinking about getting a Gigabyte Windforce RTX 2070, and though I realized it would be pretty beefy for such an old CPU I was thinking that since most games don't use too many cores it would be fine. Before anyone says to get a used 1080, I'm looking for something brand new and personally am quite interested in the real time ray tracing feature even if it does tank performance, as I will not usually be using it but would enjoy having it. I would be getting a 1440p monitor, hopefully 120hz but I might cheap out and get a 75hz.

 

After that way-too-long description of what I'm looking for, any suggestions or ideas?

[Votivee]

Even a 1070 would likely be bottlenecked by that CPU. You'd probably be best off with a GTX 1060 or a RX 580.

[RobFRaschke]

I rarely say this, because I think it's generally too subjective, and not as big a deal as most make it out to be, but in this case, anything over a GTX 1060 6GB or RX580 would be wasted on this system, unless you plan on upgrading that CPU/MB/RAM combo soon.

[Cigano]

Yeah man hate to get you less excited but this CPU will have a near impossible time doing what your looking for. RTX and 1440p 60+ fps on ultra are pipe dreams. Go with a 10 series or RX series and save your money to upgrade to a DDR4 platform with a better CPU anything more gpu wise would be a waste of money imo

[CharminUltraStrong]

4 minutes ago, YumBlin said:

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You won't be playing max settings, 1440p with 120 FPS. You could get there with medium, maybe but the odds of that are low with your CPU setup. That FX 6300 and slower ddr3 RAM will bottleneck it IMMENSELY. For the price of an RTX 2070 you can get a used 1070, a Ryzen 3 2200g, a B450 motherboard and DDR4 RAM that will crush 1080p ULTRA settings in this games with at 120 FPS+ without breaking a sweat.

[YumBlin]

Alright thanks for the tips. I'm not up to date on the bios stuff, but would there be a way to put an FX-8350 in that mobo? Would that alleviate any bottlenecks?

[Cigano]

1 minute ago, YumBlin said:

Alright thanks for the tips. I'm not up to date on the bios stuff, but would there be a way to put an FX-8350 in that mobo? Would that alleviate any bottlenecks?

I would suggest getting completely away from the FX series of chips if possible, not worth any extra cost. They were bad when released and they're worse now obv.

[RobFRaschke]

1 minute ago, YumBlin said:

Alright thanks for the tips. I'm not up to date on the bios stuff, but would there be a way to put an FX-8350 in that mobo? Would that alleviate any bottlenecks?

I have an M5A87 in the box of extra parts in the closet, and even that could take an FX-8350 with a BIOS update, however it will only minutely effect gaming performance over the FX-6300. Unfortunately that generation of AMD chips just doesn't have the IPC to keep up, regardless of cores or clock speed.

[CharminUltraStrong]

1 minute ago, YumBlin said:

Alright thanks for the tips. I'm not up to date on the bios stuff, but would there be a way to put an FX-8350 in that mobo? Would that alleviate any bottlenecks?

No. The current "budget" model from AMD's Ryzen platform the Ryzen 3 2200g CRUSHES the FX 8350 and even the "top of the line" FX 9590. You have to understand that when the FX lineup came out it was basically, dead on arrival. It was generations behind Intel and it's "best" CPU couldn't even hold hands with an i5 that was 2 or more gens old.

[Cigano]

bottom line is you have a gaming PC and should be happy but don't expect too much from this setup. Start planning for the future instead of trying to improve this build.

[Triventular]

or try to sell your parts to get money for a ddr4 build. tho you can just sell the mobo, cpu, and some of that 32gb to get a 4th gen cpu if budget is kinda tight and you can still use ddr3 on it