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Should I upgrade GPU or CPU?

lttuser7
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Bought Cyberpunk 2077 the other day and was only getting medium settings with my setup which is about 4 or 5 years old now and was looking to upgrade.

 

I have an I5-6600K overclocked to 4.5GHZ and a GTX 1060 6GB GPU. Was wondering which one would be worth upgrading first.

 

Thanks.

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they're both bottlenecks

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6600k is decent you should be able to oc to atleast 4.7ghz, like over 80% of chips can ddo that

 

either way both are bottleneck at 1080p, upgrade the gpu first. 5700XT or 3060ti would be good. 5600XT atleast.

for cpu ryzen 5 3600 or 5600x.

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8 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

6600k is decent you should be able to oc to atleast 4.7ghz, like over 80% of chips can ddo that

 

either way both are bottleneck at 1080p, upgrade the gpu first. 5700XT or 3060ti would be good. 5600XT atleast.

for cpu ryzen 5 3600 or 5600x.

As far as the overclocking. What's a good voltage to stay under? I think I'm only at 1.28V right now.

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Just now, lttuser7 said:

As far as the overclocking. What's a good voltage to stay under? I think I'm only at 1.28V right now.

Under 1.3V or 1.325V

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6600k is ok, you wanna get more fps, upgrade GPU first.

that game is GPU bound.

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