CPU Upgrade? (Or anything else)

[zackbob6]

Budget (including currency): Hopefully <$500 USD, but I could spend more if needed

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I play games casually, almost never competitively, mostly just co-op campaigns such as Far Cry 5, Halo MCC,and Borderlands; and then singleplayer AAA games like DOOM, the Middle Earth games (SoM and SoW), Jedi Fallen Order, Assassin's Creed, Elder Scrolls, and Fallout (3, 4, and NV). (I also try a lot of retro-style Indie games like Crosscode, and The Messenger but they run fairly easily). I also watch a lot of Youtube (at highest quality available) and play music. I have no need for rendering or other professional related workloads. 

Other details:

Current setup is:

CM N200 case

Hyper 212 EVO cooler

i7-7700 (non-k) (from prebuilt)

EVGA RTX 2070 Super XC Ultra

Some Samsung branded 2400hz 2x8 ram(from prebuilt)

Corsair CX750M 80+ bronze

Asus Prime B250M-K mobo

Sandisk 500gb sata ssd (boot)

Toshiba 2TB (from prebuilt)

4 120mm fans (2 intakes in front; 1 exhaust on top and 1 on back)

1 80mm intake fan on side panel over gpu

PS4 controller for games

55" LG 4K UF6450 tv 60hz

I run HDMI through a Sony 7.1 AV receiver of some kind and then HDMI to the tv

 

I'd like to utilize the full resolution of the tv and be able to get a solid 60+fps. Don't need high refresh or anything, BUT I will in a couple years when I plan to have a house of my own and a proper desk setup with a high refresh monitor. Don't have the space now for all that so I play with a controller from the couch. I can hit 60, but it dips under on maxed settings in far cry 5 for example, though never below 40. However, the greater concern I have is that when I'm watching youtube and then open steam to browse sales or another window to look up whatever is in the video playing, the system chugs a fair bit. I'm just wondering if I should be upgrading my i7-7700, knowing that would also require a mobo upgrade, or if there's something else I could do. I know the ram is kinda slow by current standards. For the cpu I was considering getting a 3700x or 3600, but I wasn't sure if I should just hold on to the 7700 and I have no one else among my friends or family that know (or care) about PCs to talk to about this. So I decided I'd finally try the forum like Linus suggests. This is my first post on this (or any) forum, so if I did anything wrong, I apologize. 

 

 

[SavageNeo]

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$172.39 @ Newegg
Motherboard	Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard	$189.99 @ Best Buy
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory	$83.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$446.37
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-11 01:20 EDT-0400

The x570 motherboard is more expensive than b450 boards but it will support next gen ryzen if you have to upgrade to 12+ core part in the future