PC Upgrade?

[potatolover7]

Budget (including currency): $1000 US

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Rainbow Six Siege, Valorant, GTA 5, Minecraft

Other details: My PC currently is:

GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 970

CPU: Intel i5 4690k

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB ddr3 1600mhz

Motherboard: ASUS Z97-A-USB3.1

Monitor: Some LG 1080p 144hz monitor

Power Supply: EVGA 750 watt G2 (80 plus gold)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500gb

OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit

 

I want to upgrade my about 5 year old pc. I don't know if I should completely rebuild a new PC or upgrade some parts. I would rather just upgrade a few parts if it makes more sense. I do not really know too much about computers (my friend built this for me). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

 

 

[Spudwell06]

10 minutes ago, potatolover7 said:

Power Supply: EVGA 750 watt G2 (80 plus gold)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500gb

OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Welcome to the LTT forum

 

If they work fine, those parts are still good enough to transfer

the rest is good to be sold or repurposed (NAS or game server of some sort)

 

I would look at:

b550 mobo

Ryzen 3600

RTX 3060 new or 2070 s second hand

ddr4 3200mz 16gb RAM

240 hz 1080 or 144hz 1440 Monitor

[Downkey]

3 minutes ago, potatolover7 said:

Budget (including currency): $1000 US

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Rainbow Six Siege, Valorant, GTA 5, Minecraft

Other details: My PC currently is:

GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 970

CPU: Intel i5 4690k

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB ddr3 1600mhz

Motherboard: ASUS Z97-A-USB3.1

Monitor: Some LG 1080p 144hz monitor

Power Supply: EVGA 750 watt G2 (80 plus gold)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500gb

OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit

 

I want to upgrade my about 5 year old pc. I don't know if I should completely rebuild a new PC or upgrade some parts. I would rather just upgrade a few parts if it makes more sense. I do not really know too much about computers (my friend built this for me). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

 

 

So currently there is a global Graphics Card shortage, so you can't really buy a new Graphics Card. If you are willing to wait a couple months you could maybe get your hands on a 3000 series GPU, but if you have to upgrade very soon are you okay with buying used graphics cards on ebay?

[potatolover7]

I can wait for up to 2 months, but I okay with buying a used card on ebay. I do need it within 2 months and I can't wait any longer.

[Downkey]

The GTX 1080ti can be found used for around 400 - 500 if you find a good deal.

Now if stock does (somehow) normalize within the next 2 months, get the RTX 3060ti. Basically a $400 RTX 2080 Super. 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$299.00 @ Best Buy
Motherboard	MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard	$139.99 @ Amazon
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$93.99 @ B&H
Video Card	Asus GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB STRIX GAMING Video Card	$470.00
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1002.98
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-03-12 13:58 EST-0500

 

[potatolover7]

Thanks for the help!

[Shoopman]

Right now is a bad time to build because prices are extremely inflated across the board. If you don't have money to burn, be prepared to wait several months.

 

Here's the thing, you could probably get away with just upgrading your GPU. Despite being 7 years old, the 4690K is still a decent gaming chip. However, since you play at 1080p this leaves the door wide open for a CPU bottleneck. Because of this I wouldn't buy anything higher than a 2060 (not that you could find one at a decent price right now anyway). Buy a 1440p display if you can, this will reduce CPU bottlenecks if you choose to go this route, and is just nice to have in general.

 

Eventually you will need to replace the rest of your system, which I would recommend over doing just a GPU upgrade. Again, don't expect to find anything new for a decent price. 5600Xs are in extremely high demand because they perform so well, and all current GPUs are being scalped for 2-4x MSRP. You could make a build out of older parts, but that's kind of silly.

[Downkey]

2 minutes ago, Shoopman said:

Right now is a bad time to build because prices are extremely inflated across the board. If you don't have money to burn, be prepared to wait several months.

 

Here's the thing, you could probably get away with just upgrading your GPU. Despite being 7 years old, the 4690K is still a decent gaming chip. However, since you play at 1080p this leaves the door wide open for a CPU bottleneck. Because of this I wouldn't buy anything higher than a 2060 (not that you could find one at a decent price right now anyway). Buy a 1440p display if you can, this will reduce CPU bottlenecks if you choose to go this route, and is just nice to have in general.

 

Eventually you will need to replace the rest of your system, which I would recommend over doing just a GPU upgrade. Again, don't expect to find anything new for a decent price. 5600Xs are in extremely high demand because they perform so well, and all current GPUs are being scalped for 2-4x MSRP. You could make a build out of older parts, but that's kind of silly.

5600xs are pretty much contstantly in stock now, also idk how hes supposed to upgrade his GPU when you cant really buy one