Looking to upgrade

[Shooterdude34]

Budget (including currency):  500-800 usd

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  3d modeling/rendering, microsoft flight sim, apex legends, borderlands 3, rainbow six siege

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Current system

- Ryzen 7 2700x

- Corsair h100i 

- 32 gb corsair vengeance 3000mhz

- Msi ventus xs oc edition gtx 1660 ti

- Gigabyte aorus ultra gaming

- 500 gb samsung 860 evo

- 500 gb crucial p6 nvme ssd

- 500 gb maxtor hdd

- 2tb seagate barracuda hdd

-lian li o11 dynamic razer edition

 

Monitors - 

Asus 24" 1080p 144hz 

Dell 27" 4k 60hz

 

Looking to try and reach 144 fps in apex, borderlands 3, or other similarly taxing games at the highest setting, as well as getting higher fps in Microsoft flight sim. this pc is also gonna follow me into my future IT career, possibly doubling as a nas sometime in the future, so i might try to incorporate a vm in there, as well as some light crypto mining.

 

[iajadsfa]

Dude, if I were you, I would wait for prices to drop and availability to rise. Then you can fit more into your budget.

[Hamster Homie]

To achieve 144 fps in the games you want at the highest setting you need a gooood graphics card. The upgrade you need is definitly the graphics card, the rest of your system is pretty good and if you want to do some light mining it can benifit. 

GPU prices should come back to normal in a bit so wait a little and you will be able to get one at msrp or lower. 

If your budget for the upgrade is 500-800$ then you can take from a 3060ti up to a 3080, up to you on how much you want to spend. 

[Shooterdude34]

14 hours ago, Hamster Homie said:

To achieve 144 fps in the games you want at the highest setting you need a gooood graphics card. The upgrade you need is definitly the graphics card, the rest of your system is pretty good and if you want to do some light mining it can benifit. 

GPU prices should come back to normal in a bit so wait a little and you will be able to get one at msrp or lower. 

If your budget for the upgrade is 500-800$ then you can take from a 3060ti up to a 3080, up to you on how much you want to spend. 

sounds good, this was my plan but i wanted to get some other opinions in case i was wrong. i was noticing cards are in stock on newegg and for prices fairly close to msrp compared to like a month ago. If i wanted i could get a 3070 ti with neweggs payment plan for like 300 a month x 4 months (listing was like $930 +taxes and shipping = ~$1200)

[Hamster Homie]

2 hours ago, Shooterdude34 said:

sounds good, this was my plan but i wanted to get some other opinions in case i was wrong. i was noticing cards are in stock on newegg and for prices fairly close to msrp compared to like a month ago. If i wanted i could get a 3070 ti with neweggs payment plan for like 300 a month x 4 months (listing was like $930 +taxes and shipping = ~$1200)

You should go on e-bay and keep checking everyday until you find 3060-TIs, 3070s, 3070-TIs and even 3080 for msrp or lower.

Due to China banks droppppppping Bitcoin value really hard, almost all Bitcoin miners sell their GPUs on e-bay or other second hand websites and prices got down to almost under msrp due to the overwhelming stock comming in. Don't worry about taking used stuff as electronics only die from physical damage, overvoltage, or electron pathway degradation. Physical is human mistake, overvoltage is PSU being bad and electron pathway degradation is like almost impossible to reach. (20+ years when cards become obsolete).

A miner whould care about having a good PSU as his monthly bill in electricity is his biggest fear. Physical damage can happen to anyone but GPU's are pretty solid compared to other PC components. And yea don't worry about  electron pathway degradation.

 

 

Here is even more information about what I just said.

 

Keep searching on second hand webistes, this will be the fastest way, or just wait for stock to come back up. Idk about the newegg stuff the lowest I saw is a 3070 at 400$ over MSRP.