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Which part should I upgrade first?

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CPU to 3600 and a CPU cooler now then RAM later (if needed). But your PSU is lacking...

Or save up money and buy a whole new system with Zen3 in a couple (hopefully) months, and use your current GPU in it until you can save up another 300 or 400 to upgrade that.

Budget (including currency): 200 Usd

Country: Mexico

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Warzone, Cyberpunk, and 3D modeling and rendering

Other details: 

Ryzen 3 1200

Gigabyte ga-ab350m ds3h

8gb 3000 mhz Corsair Lpx

Gtx 1060 3gb Gigabyte Windforce OC

EVGA 430 Watt 80+

250 GB SSD + 500 GB HDD

 

So that's basically my system, and right now I only have money to upgrade one part, so I was wondering which part you recommend I upgrade first to get better performance in games. Would you recommend to swap the 1200 for a 3600, or get another 8gb of ram, or buy an nvme to install Windows and the games there?

Eventually I have plans to upgrade these three parts, which is the order of priority to upgrade them?

 

For more context, when I'm playing Warzone, I can clearly see the CPU being a bottleneck, it's always at 100% and gpu at 70%~

But with Cyberpunk, usage on both is ok, but things load slow af, I get to a zone and start crashing with invisible stuff, only for them to appear 30 seconds later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CPU to 3600 and a CPU cooler now then RAM later (if needed). But your PSU is lacking...

Or save up money and buy a whole new system with Zen3 in a couple (hopefully) months, and use your current GPU in it until you can save up another 300 or 400 to upgrade that.

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56 minutes ago, Breeksta said:

CPU to 3600 and a CPU cooler now then RAM later (if needed). But your PSU is lacking...

Or save up money and buy a whole new system with Zen3 in a couple (hopefully) months, and use your current GPU in it until you can save up another 300 or 400 to upgrade that.

Thanks, would you say an nvme isn't that  necessary if I already have a sata SSD?

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