Upgrade advice for my current build

[eliishere]

Hi all! I'm looking for some advice about what I should be prioritising for my upgrades to make the best out of the parts I have and what I should likewise be replacing. I'm having some pretty severe bottlenecking issues causing low frame rates and overall poor performance on games I wouldn't expect to be bottlenecked. All of your advice is much appreciated!

 

Budget (including currency): ~£700

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I'm looking to be able to play pretty much everything at 1080p max settings, future proofing for titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and heavily modded games, running a multi-monitor set up, I also stream so need to be able to handle that alongside everything else when needed

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):

My current build consists of:

Windows 10 OS

AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor, 4000 Mhz

GeForce RTX 2070

Gigabyte Technology 970A-DS3P Baseboard

2 x 8GB DDR3 HyperX RAM

 

Ideally looking to source some better cooling too

Looking to play at 1080p for now, refresh rate of 70hz, looking to buy fairly soon

[MiinD]

Get a better cpu and ddr4 ram at 3600 speed

[LIGISTX]

13 minutes ago, eliishere said:

Hi all! I'm looking for some advice about what I should be prioritising for my upgrades to make the best out of the parts I have and what I should likewise be replacing. I'm having some pretty severe bottlenecking issues causing low frame rates and overall poor performance on games I wouldn't expect to be bottlenecked. All of your advice is much appreciated!

 

Budget (including currency): ~£700

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I'm looking to be able to play pretty much everything at 1080p max settings, future proofing for titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and heavily modded games, running a multi-monitor set up, I also stream so need to be able to handle that alongside everything else when needed

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):

My current build consists of:

Windows 10 OS

AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor, 4000 Mhz

GeForce RTX 2070

Gigabyte Technology 970A-DS3P Baseboard

2 x 8GB DDR3 HyperX RAM

 

Ideally looking to source some better cooling too

Looking to play at 1080p for now, refresh rate of 70hz, looking to buy fairly soon

FX-8350 is preeeeeeety old and slow. A Ryzen 3700 would be a fantastic upgrade. That, new mobo and you will need DDR4 RAM, 3200 or 3600 would be great, and you will likely double your FPS... FX chips are very, very slow by todays standard. Your RTX 2070 is being held back in a big way.

[boggy77]

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	£260.41 @ Amazon UK
CPU Cooler	Gelid Solutions Phantom Black CPU Cooler	£36.99 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard	MSI X470 GAMING PLUS MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard	£104.98 @ CCL Computers
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory	£92.99 @ Amazon UK
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£495.37
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-06 08:10 BST+0100

 

[SavageNeo]

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	£260.41 @ Amazon UK
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition 42 CFM CPU Cooler	£29.99 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard	MSI X470 GAMING PLUS MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard	£104.98 @ CCL Computers
Memory	Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3733 Memory	£106.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage	Silicon Power 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	£117.99 @ Amazon UK
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£620.36
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-06 08:12 BST+0100

 

[HD1 star wars]

To be honest you should get a 1440p monitor and wait for ryzen 4000 and b550 before upgrading. Also try to overclock the ram and OC the cpu by FSB and nb. Don't expect that big of a overclock since that's not a great fx motherboard. Also be careful of vrm temperatures