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[senuoksA]

Budget (including currency): Up to around $1000 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: League of Legends, CSGO, Jedi: Fallen Order, Jedi: Survivor, EU4, etc.

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): 

So I'm currently running a Ryzen 3 1600, GTX 970, and have some other parts I plan on moving over to a new build I'll mark as costing $0. I also intend to keep my current 1080p 60hz monitor.

I would like to be able to play at high-ultra settings at 1080p.

 

[PCPartPicker Part List](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dmGp3y)

Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
**CPU** | [AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/PgcG3C/amd-ryzen-5-5600-36-ghz-6-core-processor-100-100000927box) | $179.99 @ Amazon 
**Motherboard** | [ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX AM4 Motherboard](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/4mjNnQ/asrock-b550-phantom-gaming-4-atx-am4-motherboard-b550-phantom-gaming-4) | $114.99 @ Newegg 
**Memory** | [Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL16 Memory](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/J27CmG/corsair-memory-cmk16gx4m2a2666c16) | $0.00 
**Storage** | [Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Zxw7YJ/samsung-970-evo-plus-1-tb-m2-2280-nvme-solid-state-drive-mz-v7s1t0bam) | $0.00 
**Video Card** | [XFX Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB Speedster SWFT 210 Video Card](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/tWJgXL/xfx-radeon-rx-6600-xt-8-gb-speedster-swft-210-video-card-rx-66xt8dfdq) | $359.99 @ Amazon 
**Case** | [Zalman S2 ATX Mid Tower Case](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/P9snTW/zalman-s2-atx-mid-tower-case-s2-tg) | $62.99 @ Amazon 
**Power Supply** | [Corsair Vengeance 750 W 80+ Silver Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/ZRQG3C/corsair-vengeance-750-w-80-silver-certified-semi-modular-atx-power-supply-cp-9020176-na) |-
 | *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |
 | **Total** | **$717.96**
 | Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2022-06-22 14:46 EDT-0400 |

  

Thank you for any help!!

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Go for a b550m aorus pro p, has better i/o and quality over the b550 pg4

 

Check rams in thaiphoon burner for ic, most rams can oc to 3200 cl16 or atleast 3000 cl16

 

Otherwise looks ok

[Pixelfie]

Looks decent but please change that PSU... This should help. https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/

[Somerandomtechyboi]

9 minutes ago, Pixelfie said:

Looks decent but please change that PSU... This should help. https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/

Why? Its just an old 750w i dont see any reason to change it, esp not for a setup that prob wont even get close to 600w at full tilt

 

Also looks to be b tier on the psu list

[Pixelfie]

7 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Why? Its just an old 750w i dont see any reason to change it, esp not for a setup that prob wont even get close to 600w at full tilt

 

Also looks to be b tier on the psu list

Yeah nvm I thought it was like 10+ years old

[Queen Chrysalis]

Your motherboard will be fine, just update the BIOS before you swap the CPUs. 

But realistically you really shouldn't even be upgrading your CPU to go with a 6600xt for 1080p 60Hz.  You'll see absolutely no benefiot, as the ultra settings stuff is all on the GPU.  You could also probably OC the 1600 to 4.1GHz with 1.4v and it'll be stable.  

 

Quite frankly, upgrading your tower from what you have while still playing on a 1080p60 monitor is a huge waste of money.  Getting a new gaming monitor and upgrading your GPU will do leaps and bounds more for your end experience than swapping out your whole platform.

 

If you just bought the 6600xt, and used the budget you had dedicated to a new CPU and motherboard for a legit gaming monitor, you'd be way better off.

[venomtail]

Sounds like you only need a GPU upgrade. For $1k you can get a lot but watch out for how much a 1600 is a bottleneck. I'd go with something like a 6700XT and get myself a 1440p monitor with the $500~ left over. Maybe even push for 4k.

[senuoksA]

On 6/23/2022 at 4:08 AM, venomtail said:

Sounds like you only need a GPU upgrade. For $1k you can get a lot but watch out for how much a 1600 is a bottleneck. I'd go with something like a 6700XT and get myself a 1440p monitor with the $500~ left over. Maybe even push for 4k.

Yeah, after reaching out and discovering I made my decision to go for the 6600 XT since I plan on sticking with 1080p, but trying to go up to 144hz. In aug I plan on getting a new MOBO (to support the PCIe gen4) and a ryzen 5 5600 just to try and reduce the bottleneck as much as possible. After that I think new 16GB RAM thats higher than 2666mhz is the plan next. Thanks for the feedback!