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MPELITE22
By MPELITE22
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I have a 

i5 7400 

gtx 1060 3gb 

16 gb of ram 

600w psu

asus b250m-a

 

I was wondering if I should upgrade my cpu/mother board or gpu 

 

upgrades would be a Ryzen 7 2700x and a gigabyte b450 AORUS M (both 290$ ish)

 

OR  

 

a powercolor red devil Rx 5700 Xt (440$ ish)

 

a bit new to pc so I was wondering what would be the play 

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6 minutes ago, MPELITE22 said:

I have a 

i5 7400 

gtx 1060 3gb 

16 gb of ram 

600w psu

asus b250m-a

 

I was wondering if I should upgrade my cpu/mother board or gpu 

 

upgrades would be a Ryzen 7 2700x and a gigabyte b450 AORUS M (both 290$ ish)

 

OR  

 

a powercolor red devil Rx 5700 Xt (440$ ish)

 

a bit new to pc so I was wondering what would be the play 

Why do you need to upgrade? What's the problem in this situation that you are experiencing causing you to want to upgrade?

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I was wanting to play more taxing game like battlefield 5 and cyberpunk 2077 on high-ish settings and wanna know what’s the better upgrade to do first as I would have to wait to upgrade for a while to save up again

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20 minutes ago, MPELITE22 said:

I was wanting to play more taxing game like battlefield 5 and cyberpunk 2077 on high-ish settings and wanna know what’s the better upgrade to do first as I would have to wait to upgrade for a while to save up again

idk anything about amd but all i know is that you should definitely upgrade ur gpu. ur 3gb vram gpu would benefit much more from an upgrade (sorry about wording and spelling, i'm writing this awkwardly with a few fingers because im eating chips.

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CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K

Cooler: Corsair H150i PRO

Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Thermal Paste

Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC)

RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3600 Memory

SSD: Samsung 960 Pro 512Gb M.2-2280 Solid State Drive

SSD 2: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive

HDD: WD Black 6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

HDD 2: Seagate Barracuda PRO 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3

Case: LIAN LI O11 Dynamic XL

PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 1000W 80+ Platinum Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Case Fans: Corsair LL120

Fan Controller: Corsair Commander Pro

 

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20 minutes ago, MPELITE22 said:

I was wanting to play more taxing game like battlefield 5 and cyberpunk 2077 on high-ish settings and wanna know what’s the better upgrade to do first as I would have to wait to upgrade for a while to save up again

To be honest, you will get a higher performance gain if you go for the rx 5700 xt but upgrading to ryzen isn't a bad idea either but for now at least the part that is holding performance back is most likely your gpu

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