GPU upgrade and possibly cpu

[sorbet1993]

Budget (including currency): 1000

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:Mainly gaming but looking to start doing some streaming

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 Spec list: Ryzen 5 3600, 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX CL16 (2x8GB), RTX 3050, Thermaltake 650 watt 80+ Gold, 1 TB Samsung 980 m.2 ssd(boot drive), 1TB Samsung 860 Evo, 1 TB Samsung 870 QVO, and a Asus Prime B550M-A/CSM

Looking for the best options within the budget to upgrade the gpu and possibly the cpu or potentially moving to alder lake

Would prefer to stay with a micro atx build

[RONOTHAN##]

Get an R5 5600(X), an Enermax DF 850W, and spend the rest of the money on a GPU, reusing everything else from your old system. You should be able to barely squeeze in a 3080 or 6900XT to this budget, both of which have their pros and cons, the 3080 has stuff like CUDA, DLSS, and better RT support, while the 6900 XT is faster in rasterized games, has a bigger advantage at lower resolutions (1080P/1440P), and if power limits are disabled will run faster, even in RT stuff, though it does lose out on Nvidia features and the AMD drivers aren't quite as good as Nvidia's (though AMD's drivers are far from unusable or anything like that).

 

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