9 year old gaming PC upgrade

[Shpoopi]

I havn't been into building PCs or PC gaming for about 9 years and a few weeks ago I started to get back into it. I've been doing some research and have a few questions.

 

 

1. Budget & Location

Hopefully around $200(for now). United States

2. Aim

Gaming. I'd like to be able to just play the latest Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Battlefield V or The Division 2 type games. Playing at 1080p 60fps would be cool.  Obviously more is better. 100+ FPS or 1440p would be AMAZING. But not expected.

3. Monitors

I have 1 monitor. Samsung SyncMaster 220wm. 1680 x 1050 75hz

4. Peripherals

I have a Logitch G15 and an MX518 not planning on upgrading. I plan on getting the acer 220q its 1080 60hz monitor, on Amazon for like $90, not counting that in my budget.

5. Why are you upgrading?

Needs a boost

 

Current build as built in 2010...

Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair IV Formula (AM3) (DDR3)

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

RAM: 4GB(2x2GB) G.Skill Flare DDR3 1600

GPU: Radeon 5770 1GB

PSU: Rosewell Xtreme 850W

Storage: 2x256GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM (RAID 0). I have a cheap HP S700 SSD on the way. 

 

My Question.

 

My research so far has me considering two options.

 

1. Just clicking in another 4GB of DDR3 with an RX580 4GB or 8GB. 

I know this will make a major CPU bottleneck but I'm keeping more upgrades coming in the next year or so in mind without completely breaking the bank.

Also, this motherboard is PCI-e 2.0 the 580 is 3. It's my understanding PCI-e is backwards compatible however there will be an issue of the PCI-e 2.0 not having the same data transfer rates.

 

Does this even make sense? Some of the research I've done says while this CPU is not up to spec with the latest Ryzens,  it could possibly still run modern games.

 

2.I am also considering getting something like a B450 motherboard, with a Ryzen 3 3200G and 4-8GB of DDR 4 and running onboard graphics for a while and getting the GPU later. 

 

As of right now this PC won't even open The Division 2. Could either of these builds have hope of at least playing the latest games? Could either of these do 1080p 60FPS?

 

My research says on some games 1080p 60FPS is possible. But I'm almost 10 years out of the loop and have only been researching for a few weeks now.

 

Thank you for any and all help.

 

P.S. I was debating adding a PSU to either of these builds? Would that make sense? I'd hate to have this 9 year old PSU blow up these new parts.

 

[dizmo]

Honestly, with a budget like that I'd just look for something used on Reddit or eBay after Black Friday when people are selling the stuff they've upgraded.

[Shpoopi]

Thanks for the input. I was kinda leaning more towards the B450 upgrade anyway. Cool to hear its at least possible to play the latest games even if I have to lower the settings for a while. 

 

As for the used market I considered it but I'm super nervous about getting dead parts.

[tankyx]

Argh that is too bad I didn't bring my old DDR3 in the US, I have like 32Gigs to spare.

My guess would be that you shoud scout the used market, find a 8gigs DDR3 kit and a used :

- R9 290x

- RX480/580

- 1060 6Go

 

Obviously the Phenom II will be a bottleneck. but as games are coming out with DX12/Vulkan, it won't be that much of an issue.