Upgrading my PC

[keeboardnmouse]

Budget (To upgrade) (including currency): $200 GPU, $250 CPU $100HDD/$200 SSD Storage (at different time intervals)

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming and Streaming (Streaming in the future)

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): Playing at 1080p 60Hz, Current Build is a Ryzen 3 3200G, an X570 Aourus Elite Wi-Fi, 16GB of HyperX Fury 3200MHz speed, and a 256GB NVMe M.2 Drive from Inland Premium. Pretty low end system.

 

I play Fortnite and Valorant on this machine pretty decently (Fortnite ~60FPS uncapped on Med Settings; (Valorant ~144FPS uncapped on low settings), but I want to expand to War Thunder (~45FPS uncapped Med settings rn) and Apex

Legends (~30FPS High Settings). Speaking of which, I want to be able to store my games (256GB is holding up, but had to delete uninteresting games, ~20GB left on storage) also.

 

I want to upgrade my graphics first (preferably) from Vega 8 for about $200 (very little flex) for the most bang for the buck that will last for the most amount of time. I would be purchasing that ASAP(I don't take sides on team green/team red for graphics)

After that I want to upgrade my CPU for game streaming from the 4C 4T 3200G after I get graphics. About $250 Budget for it (Some Flex) and will be purchasing later in the year.

Finally I would want to upgrade my storage by about 2tb, and would put games I sometimes play on the external drive, and put the games I like on my boot drive. $100 for 2TB HDD or $200 for 1-2tb SSD. I could do this at anytime this year, but it would probably be done around the time of the CPU upgrade.

 

I don't know what path I should pursue first and could use advice. If anything needs to be clarified, please put it in the comments.

Summary:
Stage 1: GPU or Storage (Preference, GPU) Time: Now.

Stage 2: CPU (if GPU was picked), GPU (if not picked) or storage (preference, storage) Time: Fall 2020ish if CPU/GPU picked, Late Summer 2020 if storage picked.

Stage 3: Storage or CPU (Preference, CPU) Time: Early 2021 if CPU, Early Winter 2020 if Storage

 

 

[UpTheDons]

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Hfnb6R

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£156.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£54.16 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB Red Devil Video Card  (£300.48 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Total: £511.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-08 18:41 BST+0100

 

dont know when you built this but im not really sure why you went for a x570 and then onboard graphics with the 3200g. I didn't include a new ssd as you already have one that is decent and your ram and mobo are good. I would consider sticking with the 3200g as it is not a terrible cpu and then spending the 200 extra on a much better gpu. This could bottleneck your system however so a 1660 super and a 3600 is probably the best for your budget. the 1660 is 40 over but bear in mind i didn't include a ssd so

 

edit- i made full use of the budget by putting in a 5600xt.

[UpTheDons]

6 minutes ago, Ed-petit said:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Hfnb6R

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£156.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£54.16 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB Red Devil Video Card  (£300.48 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Total: £511.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-08 18:41 BST+0100

 

dont know when you built this but im not really sure why you went for a x570 and then onboard graphics with the 3200g. I didn't include a new ssd as you already have one that is decent and your ram and mobo are good. I would consider sticking with the 3200g as it is not a terrible cpu and then spending the 200 extra on a much better gpu. This could bottleneck your system however so a 1660 super and a 3600 is probably the best for your budget. the 1660 is 40 over but bear in mind i didn't include a ssd so

 

edit- i made full use of the budget by putting in a 5600xt.

this is of course if you want to upgrade now. as you said in your op waiting is good as new gpus are expected to come out later on but i strongly recommend upgrading to a dedicated gpu as the 3200gs onboard graphics are pretty bad. The performance increase will be massive in games like fortnite and valorant.

[keeboardnmouse]

54 minutes ago, Ed-petit said:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Hfnb6R

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£156.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£54.16 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB Red Devil Video Card  (£300.48 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Total: £511.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-08 18:41 BST+0100

 

dont know when you built this but im not really sure why you went for a x570 and then onboard graphics with the 3200g. I didn't include a new ssd as you already have one that is decent and your ram and mobo are good. I would consider sticking with the 3200g as it is not a terrible cpu and then spending the 200 extra on a much better gpu. This could bottleneck your system however so a 1660 super and a 3600 is probably the best for your budget. the 1660 is 40 over but bear in mind i didn't include a ssd so

 

edit- i made full use of the budget by putting in a 5600xt.

So the currency I was using was $200 USD for the GPU, and the 5600-XT breaks that, soooo...
i know that the 5600 xt is much better than the rx 580 that a freind recommended me but I was skeptical so I went here

[keeboardnmouse]

I am still looking for a GPU for my system..

[UpTheDons]

1 hour ago, keeboardnmouse said:

So the currency I was using was $200 USD for the GPU, and the 5600-XT breaks that, soooo...
i know that the 5600 xt is much better than the rx 580 that a freind recommended me but I was skeptical so I went here

ah sorry i will change to usd

[UpTheDons]

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Hfnb6R

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($166.89 @ Walmart) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB Red Devil Video Card  ($309.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $531.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-08 16:02 EDT-0400

[UpTheDons]

1 hour ago, keeboardnmouse said:

I am still looking for a GPU for my system..

as i said the 5600xt is the best option for your budget. because i didn't spend 100 on the ssd you can put that towards the gpu. 200+100=300

[UpTheDons]

1 hour ago, keeboardnmouse said:

So the currency I was using was $200 USD for the GPU, and the 5600-XT breaks that, soooo...
i know that the 5600 xt is much better than the rx 580 that a freind recommended me but I was skeptical so I went here

the rx580 is good for its price point but you have more budget than that so there is no need to go for that.

[keeboardnmouse]

On 6/8/2020 at 4:05 PM, Ed-petit said:

the rx580 is good for its price point but you have more budget than that so there is no need to go for that.

ok, ill look into it. I do not know if i would go with the RX 580 or the RX 5600XT or something on NVIDIA's side like a GTX 1660 Super.

[UpTheDons]

18 hours ago, keeboardnmouse said:

ok, ill look into it. I do not know if i would go with the RX 580 or the RX 5600XT or something on NVIDIA's side like a GTX 1660 Super.

The 5600xt is the best of the lot however it is more expensive. I would go for the 1660 super as the middle ground. Its still a very solid card.