Looking to upgrade.

[Dot-_-Com]

Budget (including currency): 2,000 USD

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mainly games. 

Other details 

This is my current system: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8h2wY9

looking to upgrade my CPU to a 5600x

GPU to 3080 or 3080ti

ditching the small SSD and getting a 2Tb nvme and migrate windows from SSD to Nvme. 

Also getting a 850 psu to power the newer GPU. 
 

 

[Fasauceome]

Pretty solid upgrade, for PSU I recommend:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/TDjJ7P/antec-earthwatts-gold-pro-750w-80-gold-certified-semi-modular-atx-power-supply-ea750g-pro

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/8z7p99/super-flower-leadex-iii-gold-850-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-sf-850f14hg

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kB4Ycf/be-quiet-pure-power-11-fm-750-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-bn672

 

[maartendc]

1 hour ago, Dot-_-Com said:

Budget (including currency): 2,000 USD

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mainly games. 

Other details 

This is my current system: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8h2wY9

looking to upgrade my CPU to a 5600x

GPU to 3080 or 3080ti

ditching the small SSD and getting a 2Tb nvme and migrate windows from SSD to Nvme. 

Also getting a 850 psu to power the newer GPU. 
 

 

I do doubt the usefulness of ditching the 3600X for the 5600X. At least do a 5800X if you are doing serious gaming / streaming or productivity work, so you are getting the benefits of the extra cores. Otherwise just stick with the 3600X for now, and save your money for a future upgrade to AM5 or something.

 

What resolution / FPS are you targeting? Only if you are using 1080P high refresh rate monitor, you would see some benefit from the 5600X. Otherwise, at 1440P, 4K or <120 Hz you will not notice the difference in games.

 

Other upgrades make sense. Good luck.

[Dot-_-Com]

6 minutes ago, maartendc said:

I do doubt the usefulness of ditching the 3600X for the 5600X. At least do a 5800X if you are doing serious gaming / streaming or productivity work, so you are getting the benefits of the extra cores. Otherwise just stick with the 3600X for now, and save your money for a future upgrade to AM5 or something.

 

What resolution / FPS are you targeting? Only if you are using 1080P high refresh rate monitor, you would see some benefit from the 5600X. Otherwise, at 1440P, 4K or <120 Hz you will not notice the difference in games.

 

Other upgrades make sense. Good luck.

The resolution is 1440p 165Hz. Wouldn’t the 3600x bottleneck the 3080ti? 

[NF-A12x25]

4 minutes ago, Dot-_-Com said:

The resolution is 1440p 165Hz. Wouldn’t the 3600x bottleneck the 3080ti? 

no, not really.

[maartendc]

23 minutes ago, Dot-_-Com said:

The resolution is 1440p 165Hz. Wouldn’t the 3600x bottleneck the 3080ti? 

Look at this video of the 5600X vs 3600X by hardware unboxed:

 

Tested with the RX 6800, which should sit between the 3080 and 3080 Ti, at 1440P there is only a 3.6% difference on the 16 game average between the 5600X and the 3600. This is about the difference you would see in your upgrade. In most cases at 1440P, you are GPU limited, the Ryzen 3600 is not bottlenecking the RX 6800 or the RTX 3080(Ti). In other words, the Ryzen 3600 could theoretically go faster, but it is being held back by the 3080Ti, not the other way around.

 

So in your case, not worth the upgrade, unless you want more cores like a 5800X or a 5900X. But for purely gaming, you should not need those cores.

 

Save your money, and upgrade to AM5 in a generation or two. Or put that budget towards the 3080Ti over the 3080, and you will see a bigger difference.

 

Good luck.