Possible Upgrade Paths

[Blaxo4869]

Hello guys i would love if you guys would give me some possible upgrade paths that i can take

 

This is my current build
CPU- Ryzen 5 3600x
Motherboard- MSI B450 Gaming Plus
RAM- 16gb 8gbx2 G.Skill Trident Z Neo 3600mhz
HDD- Seagate Barracuda 500gb SATA  , Samsung 970 EVO 500gb NVME , 1tb WD Blue Sata
Case- Coolermaster NR600
Case fan-2 front intake and 1 rear exhaust

CPU Fan - Cryorig H7 Plus 
Power supply- Corsair TX650M Semi-Modular

GPU - ASUS Strix GTX 1060 6GB
 

This is mainly for 1080p Gaming
Or if the budget is enough 1440p Gaming

 

[Prodigy_Smit]

What is your budget?

[Skiiwee29]

If you want to jump into 1440p gaming, you would need a 2060 super minimum, probably a 2070 super for best experience overall. 1060 is a bit weak for graphic fidelity with 1440p. Everything else looks good overall to me. 

[homeap5]

Your config is good, at least for now. You can upgrade gpu if you have money, but you can also think about different path, not so obvious. I mean SOUND. Some good amplifier, good big floor stereo speakers, music card and you'll be better than 99% users. And it last for many years. I don't understand why so many users ignore sound and focus mostly on graphics.

[TukangUsapEmenq]

8 minutes ago, homeap5 said:

Your config is good, at least for now. You can upgrade gpu if you have money, but you can also think about different path, not so obvious. I mean SOUND. Some good amplifier, good big floor stereo speakers, music card and you'll be better than 99% users. And it last for many years. I don't understand why so many users ignore sound and focus mostly on graphics.

Because most of people would be more stunned by what they see than few with good sounds. Like, a lot of gamers don't even care if they're using as long they can hear those steps on CSGO, usually just by getting cheapo earphones or headsets. People care more on graphics because simply it's uncomfortable to play at 30 fps, or the graphics looks crappy.

 

But I kind of agree with you here. Playing GTA 5 or RDR2 with good sounds actually felt good.

 

As for OP.

19 minutes ago, Blaxo4869 said:

Hello guys i would love if you guys would give me some possible upgrade paths that i can take

 

This is my current build
CPU- Ryzen 5 3600x
Motherboard- MSI B450 Gaming Plus
RAM- 16gb 8gbx2 G.Skill Trident Z Neo 3600mhz
HDD- Seagate Barracuda 500gb SATA  , Samsung 970 EVO 500gb NVME , 1tb WD Blue Sata
Case- Coolermaster NR600
Case fan-2 front intake and 1 rear exhaust

CPU Fan - Cryorig H7 Plus 
Power supply- Corsair TX650M Semi-Modular

GPU - ASUS Strix GTX 1060 6GB
 

This is mainly for 1080p Gaming
Or if the budget is enough 1440p Gaming

 

1080p are just kinda fine with that already, probably few of them needs reduced settings. If you're just gaming with that, just upgrade the GPU, and RAM if the need increases, for the longevity of the PC itself. 

[boggy77]

gpu upgrade, the rest seems fine

[homeap5]

@dhannemon13: but look at the same problem from different perspective - people listening music all the time, it's basically everywhere now. So I'm not talking about sound in games, I'm talking about music and expand computer functionality to be hifi music server. Now is something really wrong with the way people use their audio devices - they use expensive speakers for watching tv and crappy small plastic ones for listening music.

[Blaxo4869]

The budget is quite open because it would be upgraded part by part
and it isn't immediate since I can still play my games.


I'm thinking of getting a RTX 30 series possibly a 3070

 

[TukangUsapEmenq]

2 hours ago, homeap5 said:

@dhannemon13: but look at the same problem from different perspective - people listening music all the time, it's basically everywhere now. So I'm not talking about sound in games, I'm talking about music and expand computer functionality to be hifi music server. Now is something really wrong with the way people use their audio devices - they use expensive speakers for watching tv and crappy small plastic ones for listening music.

I'd put in the context of people who aren't that audiophile as ourselves. I personally kind of using 1/3 of my phone storage as FLAC storage, despite using Spotify's way simpler (yet I'm broke for the subscription so f it get the quality instead lol)

 

Well, somehow watching TV are way more relaxing way to enjoy media because you sit comfortably, cuddling with your cats, watching movies. Good sounds would be worth more to invest in such conditions, I think. But, while you're using your computer, you'd more focus on what you do on that PC (not HTPC, different context) instead of the every frequencies we heard, EXCEPT we solely using the PC itself for just relax and listen to it. Yes, I admit I sometimes got disturbed of freaking distorted frequencies of low-quality speakers, but if you're enjoying yourself while working, it won't be that bad as, again, we focus more of what we do.

 

Most people have PC, they use it for productivity, or just game, or enjoy Linus rumbling around. Which, neither of those, I think, would need that good quality for speakers. Except, of course, when people like real audiophiles, do.

 

And here's based of what I saw, at least on my country.

 

Speakers on PCs are kind of more 'specialized' here, that I only saw really few people actually using good-quality speaker/monitors around here. They don't care much about quality, as long you can listen. Like, duh, people here just sets the freaking knobs to maximum and either too much dum dum dum, and, I should say, holy shit, the high frequencies hurts. Can't even hear the vocals at all.

 

And some people (but I can say 'most' on few public places) here got... Kind of bad taste of music (no offense, Indonesians). You'd listen of this kind of music on a lot place you visit if you're on my country. The worst one would be when you're using public transportation.

 

It's so far of the analysis I did for people using computer, at least. Funnily, on my big family, I'm actually the only one that cares of the quality of any speakers output (despite using scrapped things, but hey it works flawlessly and the quality's good).

 

I think it's kind about of choice people made. You can get expensive on both, or just get one of them, or all crappy speakers all over the place.

[Darth Wilhelm]

Assuming you're gaming, I would recommend getting a used 20-series card. The performance uplift should be high while not breaking the bank too much. If you go high enough in the product stack you can also trace rays.