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What kind of games do you play, and do you do anything else performance-intensive with your PC?

 

If you play a lot of high-FPS competitive shooters or do a lot of video editing/3D modeling/code compiling/other productivity tasks, the CPU upgrade probably will be better. (Although I'd avoid the Q300L for its poor airflow performance, and choose a lower-wattage PSU with better internals instead of a 750W white.) If you play a lot of sightseeing games at high resolutions/settings, the GPU upgrade will help you more, although I don't know how well your current PSU would handle it.

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Hey there! I'm currently running

  • i7-2600
  • MEDION micro-atx ms-7728 ver 2.0 mobo
  • some micro-atx MEDION case
  • some non-modular 600W psu
  • MSI Geforce GTX 660 2GB (TwinFrozzr)
  • 16GB DDR3 Clocked at 1333Mhz (Dual channel)
  • Dunno the cooler, but it's about the size of an intel stock cooler
  • 480GB Kingston A400 SSD
  • Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM HDD

 

I'm thinking about upgrading, but I've only got 512 euro's available for an upgrade this time.

I can either buy:

 

  • an RTX 3060

or

 

  • i5-10400F
  • 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz (Dual Channel)
  • Asus PRIME B560M-A
  • Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L Micro ATX 
  • Cooler Master MWE750 White

 

If I buy either one of those lists, I can afford the other one next month (Probably). So it's really just a choice of "Which would benefit me the most right now"

 

Thank you!

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The 3060 would be bottlenecked by the 2600 so you would lose about 30% performance.

 

I would wait until you had about 1k and then do the upgrade.

 

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What kind of games do you play, and do you do anything else performance-intensive with your PC?

 

If you play a lot of high-FPS competitive shooters or do a lot of video editing/3D modeling/code compiling/other productivity tasks, the CPU upgrade probably will be better. (Although I'd avoid the Q300L for its poor airflow performance, and choose a lower-wattage PSU with better internals instead of a 750W white.) If you play a lot of sightseeing games at high resolutions/settings, the GPU upgrade will help you more, although I don't know how well your current PSU would handle it.

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4 minutes ago, Optane^ said:

The 3060 would be bottlenecked by the 2600 so you would lose about 30% performance.

 

I would wait until you had about 1k and then do the upgrade.

 

Cheers.
 

That's the thing, my GPU broke down today and I somehow resurrected it with my microwave but I don't think it'll hold much longer. Same with my CPU, it has been BSOD'ing a lot lately. So I need to upgrade atleast something rn. If my GPU fully dies I still have 2 backups so I can keep coding. But I don't have any backups for the rest

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1 minute ago, Grabhanem said:

What kind of games do you play, and do you do anything else performance-intensive with your PC?

 

If you play a lot of high-FPS competitive shooters or do a lot of video editing/3D modeling/code compiling/other productivity tasks, the CPU upgrade probably will be better. (Although I'd avoid the Q300L for its poor airflow performance, and choose a lower-wattage PSU with better internals instead of a 750W white.) If you play a lot of sightseeing games at high resolutions/settings, the GPU upgrade will help you more, although I don't know how well your current PSU would handle it.

I think this might actually be a good idea. I will look for a diff case as I don't have much budget for it (only 50 bucks) and I have (please don't call me out I know it's terrible) had no side panel for the last 3 years. Cleaned out my GPU today after getting it out of the microwave but it was 10 discord datacenters worth of dust. So I'm used to lots of airflow.

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8 minutes ago, Nik schaad said:

That's the thing, my GPU broke down today and I somehow resurrected it with my microwave but I don't think it'll hold much longer. Same with my CPU, it has been BSOD'ing a lot lately. So I need to upgrade atleast something rn. If my GPU fully dies I still have 2 backups so I can keep coding. But I don't have any backups for the rest

If you can sell some parts or find an extra $120 do this. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zYrTzf

This get's you 10 cores, a liquid cooler & one of the best cases on the market as well. 

PC - i7 12700K | EVGA FTW3 3090 | Corsair H150i | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-A | 32GB Corsair Vengance | Lian Li O11 Evo & EVGA 1k PSU

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Just now, Nik schaad said:

I do not have any way of getting extra money.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/v9WxbK - $550
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MLDBhk - $525

PC - i7 12700K | EVGA FTW3 3090 | Corsair H150i | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-A | 32GB Corsair Vengance | Lian Li O11 Evo & EVGA 1k PSU

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5 hours ago, Nik schaad said:

That's the thing, my GPU broke down today and I somehow resurrected it with my microwave

I hope you mean a toaster oven. 

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Nah I used a microwave. 700W for a full minute and fsr it worked

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Didnt have thermal paste for it so used toothpaste (temporary dw)

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22 minutes ago, Nik schaad said:

Nah I used a microwave. 700W for a full minute and fsr it worked

How?! I'd expect it to be completely fried after that

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On 7/18/2022 at 3:49 PM, Pasi123 said:

How?! I'd expect it to be completely fried after that

I've got no fucking clue mate, but I'm glad it worked!

 

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