Upgrading in peices

[FatWatermelon68]

So i have a prebuilt thats kinda getting a little outdated now with ryzen 3 and the new rtx series cards and im wondering what to upgrade first

My first budget is 600 to upgrade and get it to run for at least a little bit till i can put more into it

Cpu : amd fx 8350

Gpu : rx 480

Ram : 2 4 gig sticks of ddr3 

Storage :1 tb wd hdd and 1 500 gb kingston ssd

I have peripherals and a monitor i can use 

I use usd so 600 usd 

 

[Spotty]

Upgrade the CPU first. FX series is getting quite old and the performance increase to Ryzen is huge. You will need a new motherboard and new DDR4 RAM.

The RX480 is okay, and you should still get pretty decent 1080p performance in most games. You could keep that for now and upgrade later. It would kinda be a waste to buy an RTX series graphics card with your current AMD FX series CPU.

[FatWatermelon68]

7 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Upgrade the CPU first. FX series is getting quite old and the performance increase to Ryzen is huge. You will need a new motherboard and new DDR4 RAM.

The RX480 is okay, and you should still get pretty decent 1080p performance in most games. You could keep that for now and upgrade later. It would kinda be a waste to buy an RTX series graphics card with your current AMD FX series CPU.

What about a ryzen 7 3700x with an asus prime x470 pro motherboard with 2 sticks 8 gb g skill trident z ddr4-3600 

[5x5]

Ryzen 5 3600, B450 board and 16GB DDR4 3200 is what I'd get for now.

[5x5]

Just now, Fatassboy said:

What about a ryzen 7 3700x with an asus prime x470 pro motherboard with 2 sticks 8 gb g skill trident z ddr4-3600 

If it's within budget, just change the board to something better - like a B450 Tomahawk

[FatWatermelon68]

Just now, 5x5 said:

Ryzen 5 3600, B450 board and 16GB DDR4 3200 is what I'd get for now.

Is more ram better or faster from what ive read ryzen likes to have faster ram

 

[FatWatermelon68]

1 minute ago, 5x5 said:

If it's within budget, just change the board to something better - like a B450 Tomahawk

Its about 50 bucks cheaper for a tomahawk thanks 

[Aimi]

1 minute ago, Fatassboy said:

Is more ram better or faster from what ive read ryzen likes to have faster ram

Having more than 16 GB most likely won't benefit you, just make sure the frequency is high.

[FatWatermelon68]

1 minute ago, Fatassboy said:

Its about 50 bucks cheaper for a tomahawk thanks 

So with that motherboard i could go with a 4 8 gb 3600 g skills trident z ram for about the same price as the original build with the other motherboard

[Spotty]

6 minutes ago, Fatassboy said:

What about a ryzen 7 3700x with an asus prime x470 pro motherboard with 2 sticks 8 gb g skill trident z ddr4-3600 

If it's just gaming I'd save the money and go with the Ryzen 5 3600 instead. They perform fairly similarly in games. The Ryzen 7 3700/x gives benefit in tasks that can take advantage of the extra cores.

 

4 minutes ago, Fatassboy said:

Is more ram better or faster from what ive read ryzen likes to have faster ram

 

16GB is pretty much the go-to these days, unless you're doing work that will require more. Faster is better. Preferably 3000MHz or higher.

[FatWatermelon68]

Or would 16 gigs of ddr4 4000 work better 

 

[FatWatermelon68]

So hows this sound 

Amd ryzen 3600x 240 usd

Msi b450 tomahawk for  115 usd

2 8 gig ddr4 4000 sticks for 140 usd

Total about 495 usd