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I want to upgrade my graphics card (I know, great timing) but I'm not sure what to choose to bottleneck my build the least and to not overkill as well

Budget (including currency): Not very relevant, I'm just searching for the "top line"

Country: Ukraine

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I just wan't my Doom Eternal to give me 60fps at minimal graphics on 1080p (but more is better of course)

Current components

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor

 

Motherboard: ASRock B460M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard


RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3200 CL18 Memory (planning to buy 2 more sticks if that's relevant)


Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive and Crucial BX500 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive


PSU: Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply


And finally GPU: Radeon RX550/550 Series (yes I know, not exactly the best choice to put it mildly, but I was stupid and impatient)

 

Also my monitor is 1080p and 60Hz

 

I made this build about 2 months ago and quickly realized that my GPU turned out to be very lacking, so now I want to sell this one and buy a better one and am looking for tips on what would fit best here. 

Thanks to everyone in advance!

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hmm, i think you could get atleast a 1080 at the very least. 2060 is great aswell.

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12 minutes ago, SunbleachedAngel said:

Budget (including currency): Not very relevant, I'm just searching for the "top line"

Country: Ukraine

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I just wan't my Doom Eternal to give me 60fps at minimal graphics on 1080p (but more is better of course)

Current components

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor

 

Motherboard: ASRock B460M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard


RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3200 CL18 Memory (planning to buy 2 more sticks if that's relevant)


Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive and Crucial BX500 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive


PSU: Cooler Master MWE Bronze V2 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply


And finally GPU: Radeon RX550/550 Series (yes I know, not exactly the best choice to put it mildly, but I was stupid and impatient)

 

Also my monitor is 1080p and 60Hz

 

I made this build about 2 months ago and quickly realized that my GPU turned out to be very lacking, so now I want to sell this one and buy a better one and am looking for tips on what would fit best here. 

Thanks to everyone in advance!

I know what you want is GPU but I think you might need to upgrade your PSU to 650w and get a 3060 or 3060ti , for the monitor I recommend going with 144hz

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1 minute ago, Omar.B said:

I know what you want is GPU but I think you might need to upgrade your PSU to 650w and get a 3060 or 3060ti , for the monitor I recommend going with 144hz

Thanks for the advice but that's way out of my budget =)

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3 minutes ago, truvisk said:

hmm, i think you could get atleast a 1080 at the very least. 2060 is great aswell.

Thank you for providing the general range I should be looking at I thought something around that area as well

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I wouldn't unless you really wait and get one for a decent price.

 

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How's the RX550 doing for you currently? With only a 1080p 60Hz display, there's not much you could reasonably upgrade to that wouldn't be severely bottlenecked by your monitor. Are you not able to currently game at 1080p with at least 60FPS?

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2 hours ago, Chris Pratt said:

How's the RX550 doing for you currently? With only a 1080p 60Hz display, there's not much you could reasonably upgrade to that wouldn't be severely bottlenecked by your monitor. Are you not able to currently game at 1080p with at least 60FPS?

Most things work fine avaraging 60+fps, like Overwatch in high, Dota 2 on max, any indie game is fine, obviously, but when you try anything more serious, like Doom 2016, it sturts tanking very hard, dropping below 25 fps in tough spots and having 35 on avarage and I just thought about upgrading to at least NVidia 10 series like even 1080 TI would do wonders I'd imagine, since I don't need or want 4K 120fps gaming, I just want 1080p 60 fps. I'm not a competetive FPS gamer so 60hz is anything I'd ever need and 1080p is perfectly fine for me too, anything else is just too big imo.

Also I should probably metion that I'm 23 and I've never had a proper PC that can run fucking anything even at stable 30 fps on a 720p screen so what I have now is just super amazing to me anyway, I'm just missing that tiny little bit for comfort but the Graphics card shortage is just fucking insane, anywhere I check, abroad or local

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2 hours ago, dizmo said:

I wouldn't unless you really wait and get one for a decent price.

 

I just want to at least have an idea of what I should be looking for, be it now or in future

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1 hour ago, SunbleachedAngel said:

I just want to at least have an idea of what I should be looking for, be it now or in future

It's always best to ask when you're ready to buy. Too much changes if you're looking into the future.

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Monitor: LG 27GL83B Mouse: Razer Basilisk V2 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Speakers: Mackie CR5BT

 

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CPU: Intel i3 4160 Cooler: Integrated Motherboard: Integrated

RAM: G.Skill RipJaws 16GB DDR3 Storage: Transcend MSA370 128GB GPU: Intel 4400 Graphics

PSU: Integrated Case: Shuttle XPC Slim

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

Budget Rig 1 - Sold For $750 Profit

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CPU: Intel i5 7600k Cooler: CryOrig H7 Motherboard: MSI Z270 M5

RAM: Crucial LPX 16GB DDR4 Storage: Intel S3510 800GB GPU: Nvidia GTX 980

PSU: Corsair CX650M Case: EVGA DG73

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

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PSU: Thermaltake TR2 Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX

Monitor: Dell P2214H x2 Mouse: Logitech MX Master Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

 

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