Upgrade advice please

[Subz]

Budget (including currency): 400 USD

 

Country: South Africa 

 

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Other details: upgrade help 

 

Good day

I trust you are all well.
I kindly require some upgrade advice as I would hate to waste cash and make the wrong decision.
I currently have a Ryzen 2600X with an MSI B450M PRO-VDH mobo, 16gig 3000hz RAM and a RTX 3070. I use this system primarily for single player gaming at 1440p and hardly anything else. Seeing that prices are dropping and my CPU is quite old I am thinking of upgrading my CPU and mobo (apparently my current mobo doesnt support Ryzen 5000 series well, this is what I've read online).

My dilema is whether I should upgrade my CPU to something like a 5800, 5900, or even 5800X3D which should future proof me in terms of CPU for a while seeing that I dont upgrade my CPU often.
Or upgrade to something cheaper like a 5600X or 5700X, sell my current GPU and upgrade that as well?

Any advice will be much appreciated

[Ryuikko]

The 3070 is already a pretty decent card. Are you seeing 100% cpu  utilization in games? You might see some perfromance benefit oc your cpu, if your  mobo can handle it 

[Fasauceome]

3 minutes ago, Subz said:

apparently my current mobo doesnt support Ryzen 5000 series well, this is what I've read online

Per MSI's website, you can update to support 5000 series 

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B450M-PRO-VDH/support#cpu

 

5 minutes ago, Subz said:

My dilema is whether I should upgrade my CPU to something like a 5800, 5900, or even 5800X3D which should future proof me in terms of CPU for a while seeing that I dont upgrade my CPU often.
Or upgrade to something cheaper like a 5600X or 5700X, sell my current GPU and upgrade that as well?

You should present-proof instead of future proof. The Ryzen 5 5600 would be a pretty big leap in CPU performance, and is quite good for 144fps gaming in most modern titles.

[Motifator]

I'd get the 5700 if the price is right personally, it's an 8 core so future proofing should be better with UE5 games to be released. Might be worth moving towards 32gb RAM while at it as well... depending on what you do.