CPU or GPU? That is the question....

[zengara]

Budget (including currency): 2000-3000 Dkr (326-490$)

Country: Denmark

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Purely gaming

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X (8 cores)

Graphics card: Radeon RX 580 Nitro+ Saphire (blue one, did not know it was kinda weirdly rare)

Motherboard: AB350 Gaming K4

Ram: 16 gb Corsair (3200 mhz)

SSD: Kingston 480 GB

 

The text here is not going to be super long, but any kind of help would be greatly appreciated. I have been out of the PC building loop for a few years, even though I have seen quite a few of the videos coming from Linus. My question really is, what part should I upgrade? I mainly play an MMO called Guild Wars 2, but sometimes singleplayer games or shooters/strategy games. I am aiming for either upgrading my CPU or graphic card, but I just do not know which, and if 1 of them would be the choice. I do not know what I should upgrade it to?

I would also like streaming Guild Wars 2 sometimes, but seems like the game does show below 30 fps when a lot of people is on the screen

 

By the way, I think I got everything written above, but if there is something I missed I will deffenitely write/edit it so it will be easiere for people to read the topic. Thanks for the help in advance!

(sorry for the play on words with Hamlet in the title btw)

[Kirkula]

Whichever one you're able to find without being robbed blind by scalpers on e-bay  Welcome back to pc building...interesting times you came back to though....

[Chris Pratt]

When it comes to gaming a GPU upgrade is always going to make the most difference. However, if you're finding your current CPU to be a bottleneck, removing that bottleneck by upgrading it to a faster one will make a difference. The CPU is more like RAM in this situation though. You just need *enough*. It has the power to negatively impact your performance, if it's not enough, but after you reach that threshold, it doesn't really do anything extra for you.

 

This is a seriously bad time to be upgrading GPUs, though. A 580 is pretty good, all things considered. A CPU upgrade might help you out a little here, since you're still on first gen Ryzen. It's probably not going to work miracles, though.

[TudorFinalBosz]

Get the best CPU you can find for that budget.

That GPU is still fine for 1080p gaming.

You won't find a better GPU for that kind of money.

[zengara]

Thank you for all the replies! Seems like most people are just saying to buy a bit of a better CPU, since buying a graphics card probably wont be reasonable at that price, specially right now. So I looked a bit around and I am thinking about going a bit over budget and buying a ryzen 9 3900x or if I should just pick between the ryzen 5 5900X or ryzen 7 3900X