upgrade help

krucked1 · October 22, 2021

Budget (including currency): Budget aiming for 400 u.s.d in next 4 months only income i have at this time is from second life playing a game like pokemon

Country: united states

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: i play games like ark,apex fornite, mmorpg basically any game that's new and fun and second life i struggle a lot 11fps to 25fps most places clubs in second life can be low as 8 frames

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):

Graphics: XFX Radeon R7 370 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Double Dissipation XXX OC Video Card R7-370P-4255

Graphics Link: https://www.newegg.com/xfx-radeon-r7-370-r7-370p-4255/p/N82E16814150733?Item=N82E16814150733

Motherboard: ASRock B450 PRO4 AM4 AMD Promontory B450 SATA 6Gb/s ATX AMD Motherboard

Motherboard link: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-b450-pro4/p/N82E16813157841?Item=N82E16813157841

CPU AMD Ryzen 3 2nd Gen with Radeon Graphics - RYZEN 3 3200G Picasso (Zen+) 4-Core 3.6 GHz (4.0 GHz Max Boost) Socket AM4 65W YD3200C5FHBOX Desktop Processor

CPU link: https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-3-3200g/p/N82E16819113571?Item=N82E16819113571

Ram: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 8GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Intel XMP 2.0 Desktop Memory Model TLZGD48G3200HC16C01 have another ram not sure what it was bought of a buddy but it's same DDR 3200 8gig

Ram Link: https://www.newegg.com/team-8gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820331330?Item=N82E16820331330

PSU: it's old 4-5 years not sure but it's 750 watt 80gold non modular

Case: CFI Bastet CFI-A4012 Black SECC / Mesh & Plastic Front Bezel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case replaced fans with LED fans

Case: Link: https://www.newegg.com/black-cfi-bastet-atx-mid-tower/p/N82E16811855001?Item=N82E16811855001

Monitor: ASUS VX238H 23" 1920 x 1080 HDMI x 2, D-Sub Built-in Speakers LCD Monitor

Monitor Link:https://www.newegg.com/asus-vx238h-23/p/N82E16824236305?Item=N82E16824236305

Mouse keyboard some cheap thing from wish lol

Harddrive: 2TB western digital blue 7200rpm 256 mb cache

feel that's all info i can give on parts but i'm looking to upgrade my gameplay to min 1080P 60fps but i will have budget of 400 dollars for a video card in 4 months that's the goal or if i can go cheaper to get same performance for most games preferably games like ark and ark 2 60 fps I'm sure if i can achieve in ark most other games will be fine but i don't know what video cards to look for amd or nividia don't matter i'm looking for something in my budget that will achieve that performance stead 60fps medium to high graphics as well as second life performance is horrible and it's how i pay for my gaming so needs to run better then 12-22 fps any suggestion to upgrade would be great graphics or any parts i need to upgrade to get thous peformance boost with 400 budget

video card i have replaced the thermal paste because was pushing 85-90c in mins of booting a game now it's 75-80c in 60frames of ark but i'm babying it because i don't have a normal income apply for ssi is struggle due to covid and can't work so second life is only income

any suggestion would be amazing i hope i covered everything and enough details for you guys thanks in advanced

Somerandomtechyboi · October 23, 2021

Zen and zen+ are flaming piles of trash performance wise, upgrade the cpu to a 3600 or 5600x

Get a second stick of ram cause single channel cripples cpu performance by ~30%

Overclock your gpu abit, since its already kinda thermally limited dont increase the power limit and just overclock the crap out of the vram, then overclock the crap out of the core, since power limit isnt increased this shouldnt raise gpu temps by much, maybe ~3c

krucked1 · October 23, 2021

i did state i had 2 ram sticks in a dual channel config i thought and i'm having issues with heating with games sometimes pushing 81-82c if i let it go to 60 fps some games i have to throlle down to 40fps to get in 70c range but your saying over clocking should solve that issue and won't heat up to this point no more but allowing more performance?

and keeping in mind this gpu been in my pc for 10ish years but i should push it and over clock it? and spend money on a new cpu i do eventually i want a ryzen 5 but 223 dollars price point i could but would cause my gpu to overheat even more allowing push more frames and being so old not sure if that's safe

did as you said oc both vram and clock and made my 2nd monitor bounce and have line threw it and i did notice 1-2c diffrence in temps but nothing worrie about at this time unless i attempt to run a demanding game