Should I sell or upgrade?

[JacksonC27]

Im looking to get a new gpu from geforces upcoming ampere cards but I also need a new psu and more ram should I just get a new pc entirely? Here are my specs my budget is about 1000 us dollars with a 6.875% sales tax.

 

[PcGoodConsoleBad]

Build a new pc avoid buying prebuilts.

[BobVonBob]

Hello there my Minnesotan friend! (only place with that sales tax) You can probably get a pretty decent performance boost without replacing your CPU, but if you're inclined to do so my advice would be to buy a more powerful CPU secondhand, grab some more RAM, a new PSU, and then get whatever Ampere card fits your budget.

 

We don't know for sure what prices are going to be, but they look like they'll be high. It'll be easier to choose between the two options when we know actual performance and prices of Ampere cards. 

[bellabichon]

The easiest thing you can do to drastically improve performance on that system would be to install an SSD as your boot drive. The 16GB of Optane memory helps in making your hard drive feel faster, but nothing beats having your OS installed on an SSD. I don't think you need to sell your whole system (your CPU is actually fine for most GPU-bound games), but you're definitely going to need a more powerful PSU if you want to install an Ampere GPU in the future. Do keep in mind that while the Ampere GPUs are slated to be launched September 1st, Nvidia typically launches the more powerful cards first. If you're looking for a '3060', you might end up waiting a bit longer.

[Jakub_NF]

If you need more performance overall then you could upgrade the cpu but the 8400 is basically the 8600k without overclocking and that is still an excellent gaming chip. If I was you I would just buy and extra stick of ram to make it 16gb (unless your setup is 2x4 right now) and whatever gpu you want, your current setup won't have problems with bottlenecks.

[Aereldor]

Eh, it's not terrible. An 8400 is a modern 6-core, boosts to 4ghz. Thing is you're sort of stuck on the GPU because that prebuilt came with a sketchy power supply. 

 

I'd stick with this till as much new stuff is out as possible, and then build a new PC, on a better platform.