upgrade Looking to upgrade my PC and would like some advice

[DaaromMike]

Hi everyone!

As the title suggests I'm considering to upgrade my PC since I recently upgraded from 1080p 144Hz to 1440p 144Hz and I feel like my PC just isn't powerful enough to play the latest games at 1440p Ultra and get 60FPS, let alone 144Hz. But I don't really know what part I should upgrade, I was personally thinking to upgrade my GPU (maybe a 2080 super)? But I don't know if my CPU would even be powerful enough to run a new GPU and if that's the best value. Let me just say: I don't really need to get 144Hz in every game but getting at least 75 would be nice while playing on ultra/very high.

At max I would like to spend around 900 euro's, I don't mind to go over it but let's just say I rather not... So any advice or tips you guys might have would be appreciated.

 

My current build is:

CPU: Ryzen 7 1700x (OC'd to 3.9 GHz)

MOBO: ASUS ROG Strix B450-F

GPU: GTX 1070 Ti

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance 2666MHz

PSU: 700W Sharkoon 80+ Bronze

[Dedayog]

I think you can just drop a Ryzen 3600 in that motherboard with a BIOS update.

 

The 1070Ti + 3600 should give you 1440p 100Hz+ really well.  1070Ti isn't a slouch.

[star_pilot475]

12 minutes ago, DaaromMike said:

PSU: 700W Sharkoon 80+ Bronze

Unless you want your system to blow up- that needs to be upgraded.

[Meganter]

Hello,

 

You can throw in a 3600 in there and some 3000-3200mhz ram and probably a better PSU like the rm550x or tx550m from corsair and a 5700xt. If you sell your previous stuff it should be in the range of the 900€.

[Dedayog]

1 minute ago, Plouffe said:

Hello,

 

You can throw in a 3600 in there and some 3000-3200mhz ram and probably a better PSU like the rm550x or tx550m from corsair and a 5700xt. If you sell your previous stuff it should be in the range of the 900€.

I think outside of the 3600, you're looking at minimal upgrades for more money than can be justified.  New RAM won't do much at that small speed increase for the hassle.  PSU yes, but the 1070Ti is fine.  

 

Unless the OP really wants to spend his 900, I'd get a CPU and wait til the next gen for an upgrade.

 

@DaaromMike, you don;t list an SSD.  That's mandatory, if you don't have one.  If you do, look into more SSD space for the games.

[Meganter]

Here's a list

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	€215.89 @ Alternate
Memory	Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	€82.90 @ Amazon France
Video Card	Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB NITRO+ Video Card	€489.95 @ Amazon France
Power Supply	Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	€79.99 @ Corsair
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	€868.73
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-09-26 16:30 CEST+0200

 

Also your 1070ti is still really good so might save up that.

[Meganter]

Just now, jstudrawa said:

I think outside of the 3600, you're looking at minimal upgrades for more money than can be justified.  New RAM won't do much at that small speed increase for the hassle.  PSU yes, but the 1070Ti is fine.  

 

Unless the OP really wants to spend his 900, I'd get a CPU and wait til the next gen for an upgrade.

Oh ok then perhaps a 3700x ? And a PSU

[Dedayog]

Just now, Plouffe said:

Oh ok then perhaps a 3700x ? And a PSU

Why tho?  The 3700X is a gaming + streaming chip.  The 3600 is just as good for gaming, and much cheaper.  Justify your suggestion of the 3700X.

[Meganter]

2 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

Why tho?  The 3700X is a gaming + streaming chip.  The 3600 is just as good for gaming, and much cheaper.  Justify your suggestion of the 3700X.

Because he has the budget that's the only argument I have since the 3600 and 3700x are comparable in gaming performance.

[Dedayog]

9 minutes ago, Plouffe said:

Because he has the budget that's the only argument I have since the 3600 and 3700x are comparable in gaming performance.

Cool.  I'm going for the same performance for saving money argument.

 

If he WANTS to spend all his cash, then by all means.

[DaaromMike]

27 minutes ago, star_pilot475 said:

Unless you want your system to blow up- that needs to be upgraded.

Is it really that bad? I knew it wasn't that good but I also didn't knew It needed to be replaced immediately, but it may be time anyway since I've had it for the better part of 3 years now...

[Meganter]

4 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

Cool.  I'm going for the same performance for saving money argument.

 

If he WANTS to spend all his cash, then by all means.

Can't really disagree with you anyway since I suggested the 3600 too, I was just wondering if it was worth it money wise.

[DaaromMike]

7 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

Cool.  I'm going for the same performance for saving money argument.

 

If he WANTS to spend all his cash, then by all means.

Fair point, I do feel like a 3700x can be justified tho because I forgot to mention that I do edit video's sometimes and I used to stream and may get back into it eventually.

[Meganter]

1 minute ago, DaaromMike said:

Is it really that bad? I knew it wasn't that good but I also didn't knew It needed to be replaced immediately, but it may be time anyway since I've had it for the better part of 3 years now...

 

It's not even in the holy list

[DaaromMike]

27 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

I think outside of the 3600, you're looking at minimal upgrades for more money than can be justified.  New RAM won't do much at that small speed increase for the hassle.  PSU yes, but the 1070Ti is fine.  

 

Unless the OP really wants to spend his 900, I'd get a CPU and wait til the next gen for an upgrade.

 

@DaaromMike, you don;t list an SSD.  That's mandatory, if you don't have one.  If you do, look into more SSD space for the games.

I do in fact have an SSD, a 970 Evo 500GB to be exact, I have though about getting an extra SATA SSD for gaming but I don't really feel like it's necessary since I'm fine with games loading a little slower with my HDD.

[DaaromMike]

1 minute ago, Plouffe said:

 

It's not even in the holy list

Yikes, guess the first thing I'm buying is a new power supply, or maybe I'll take it out of my Media Server since I recently upgraded that one with a BeQuite System Power 9 600W

[Dedayog]

3 minutes ago, DaaromMike said:

I do in fact have an SSD, a 970 Evo 500GB to be exact, I have though about getting an extra SATA SSD for gaming but I don't really feel like it's necessary since I'm fine with games loading a little slower with my HDD.

As long as you don't play heavily modded games, HDD is fine.  

[Akira Shimazu]

4 minutes ago, DaaromMike said:

Yikes, guess the first thing I'm buying is a new power supply, or maybe I'll take it out of my Media Server since I recently upgraded that one with a BeQuite System Power 9 600W

its not about watt but like quality. there is a thread to  the PSU tier

[Meganter]

35 minutes ago, DaaromMike said:

Yikes, guess the first thing I'm buying is a new power supply, or maybe I'll take it out of my Media Server since I recently upgraded that one with a BeQuite System Power 9 600W

The TX550M I put in the list is nice, semi modular, 80+ gold, the RM550X is fully modular, 80+ gold but it's an excellent PSU, I put one in a friend computer and it endles a 2700x + 1080ti just fine

[DaaromMike]

8 minutes ago, Plouffe said:

The TX550M I put in the list is nice, semi modular, 80+ gold, the RM550X is fully modular, 80+ gold but it's an excellent PSU, I put one in a friend computer and it endles a 2700x + 1080ti just fine

Sadly those are out of stock on the site where I usually buy my pc parts, but I did see another appealing deal on a PSU from the list, specifically the Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 which is around 95 euros right now and it's on Tier A of the list so I'm assuming that one is good as well?

[Meganter]

3 minutes ago, DaaromMike said:

Sadly those are out of stock on the site where I usually buy my pc parts, but I did see another appealing deal on a PSU from the list, specifically the Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 which is around 95 euros right now and it's on Tier A of the list so I'm assuming that one is good as well?

Yup it will be good too and if the 550w is available you can go for it since750w will be overkill.

[DaaromMike]

20 minutes ago, Plouffe said:

Yup it will be good too and if the 550w is available you can go for it since750w will be overkill.

The difference in price between the 550w and the 750w is only about 15 euro's which I don't mind spending in order to get some more future proofing to be honest.