Upgrading To New PC

[ishyB]

Budget (including currency): £500-£650

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Competitive Gaming Mainly and tiny bits of editing. Sometimes Screen Recordings. Spotify, Game, Discord and Chrome open at one time with 2 monitors

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): 144hz 1920x1080 1 144Hz Main Monitor and 1 Side 60Hz Monitor.

Was thinking of bargaining some parts of eBay used.

Right now I have a 1050ti, i5 4460 and 12GB DDR3 Ram. 250GB SSD and 1TB HDD

Here are some parts I was thinking of:

Ryzen 5 3600 or Ryzen 5 2600

GTX 1660 Super

16GB DDR4 Ram

SSD/HDD: Using from PC I Currently have 250GB SSD and 1TB HDD. May upgrade to M.2 SSD

Motherboard: Not sure yet but an ATX should do

Case: Not sure about case or anything

Peripherals: Already have all of them, but I wouldn't mind a new mouse like the corsair harpoon

Extras: Any Tiny bit of Lighting or Case Built + A Cheap Small 144hz 1ms

I'm just a bit confused on the case really and how to organise fans in out take and intake. Plus I don't know much about cable management and what to connect in the case.

Please feel free to leave any other suggestions or parts.

 

 

 

[Kanna]

I would keep the case and not get a new one (as long as it is atx) Then I would settle for a R5 3600 (maybe wait for the prices to drop since you can't really fit into this budget with psu and everything and MSI B450 board and 2x8GB corsair vengance LPX and keep that GPU you have for a bit until you have some more money maybe

[Bombastinator]

The problem it seems is there isn’t enough cash here to do what you want to do.  
 

So to lowball things:

In your position a 3300x (assuming a lower cost for the 3300x) would beat a 2600x mostly because of frame rates and game type.  Could reduce future usability perhaps though.  Future usability is not guaranteed with a 3600 though and the 2600 is slower.  Non gaming use of the 2600 is better than the 3300, but you are claiming primarily gaming.  Money can be saved by scavenging parts from the old machine like case and storage.  Selling old equipment as a working machine doesn’t net much in the way of additional money. Mostly it just nets the ability to sell a used PSU and ram that is otherwise nearly valueless. Perhaps some research needs to be done on that.  Selling used and buying new will net loss, and the money is already short.  Cpu and mobo may actually net more separately than it would in a working machine. Again research.  If you can use the old in hand parts it will be less expensive than buying new ones. In hand parts cost $0. Replacing case and storage is probably a couple hundred bucks.  So you’d have to makes 200 more off selling the old machine as a whole than as parts just to break even.  Holding the 1550ti till September will make the 1660S a no longer available new produced part and make it much cheaper.

 

UPDATE:  something occurs to me: if the original machine is a prebuilt it’s possible it MUST be sold as a complete unit so the math changes drastically. 

Edited August 5, 2020 by Bombastinator

[ishyB]

Yeah I could go for a 3300x but the problem is no one is selling any 3300x's around here in the UK , BTW most I can possibly spend is probably around £650 which is around $850 in USD

I've been lurking around eBay and I've seen 1660 Super's go around for £150 used which is like $190. Also used Ryzen 2600 prices are around £100-80 which is $130-100. 

I also could just wait and find parts and buy them if I find a good deal and overtime build my PC.

For now maybe I could buy a 1660 Super and use that for now and 144hz monitor I've seen on clearance so I can play in the meantime and overtime upgrade whilst I gather some more money.

 

My PC was prebuilt but I've replaced many parts by like 5 years by now besides CPU and motherboard.

 

Thanks for the help!

 

[Bombastinator]

Theres always waiting to see what zen3 brings. 4/4 hurts now though.  It’s gonna hurt worse by Black Friday.

[ishyB]

12 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

Theres always waiting to see what zen3 brings. 4/4 hurts now though.  It’s gonna hurt worse by Black Friday.

Yeah I’m not really in a rush or anything anyways PC rn is working perfectly fine but doesn’t run some games like warzone  but could wait till zen 3 release