Planning to Upgrade

[LinkRuelz13]

Budget (including currency): Nothing too expensive, this is more future planning than purchasing soon (USD)

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Various games and light video editing

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):

 

I would like to upgrade my PC. Currently I think my specs are pretty decent but I want to get a little better performance in games. I think my main bottleneck is my GPU but I’ll let you guys input as well. I want a decent upgrade that won’t cost a fortune. I would prefer to not have to get a new PSU but if it’s necessary I will. Note that this will be in a Micro ATX case. 

Here’s my current specs:

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G

RedDragon RX 570

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB DDR4-2400 CL16

MSI B450M PRO-M2 AM4

Corsair CX550M 550W 80+ Bronze ATX Power Supply

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4 minutes ago, LinkRuelz13 said:

I think my main bottleneck is my GPU but I’ll let you guys input as well

Neither is particularly strong, but the CPU is definitely a lot weaker than the GPU is. Personally I'd be upgrading both, but if you were to only upgrade one I'd get a 5600 once AM5 releases and AM4 gear goes on clearance/sells for cheap on the used market, since that way you can keep the motherboard. 

 

If you're gonna upgrade both, get the 5600 and an RX 6600 or 6600 XT, but then again by the time you're willing to buy new GPUs will be out and this likely won't be relevant anymore. 

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An RX 6600 should roughly double your FPS in most games (more in some), and the 2200g isn't fast anymore but it should be fine with the 6600.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/wdvdnQ/xfx-radeon-rx-6600-8-gb-speedster-swft-210-video-card-rx-66xl8lfdq

 

My advice would be to get the 6600, see how it works with the 2200g, and if it's really a problem then look at upgrading your CPU and stuff later on.  You should still be able to get about $110-$130 for the 570, so it's a $140 upgrade that might be slightly CPU bottlenecked, but still way faster.  It might not be a bottleneck at all.  But yeah, definitely try the new GPU first, then assess if the CPU is still a slowdown.  If it is, maybe get a new CPU too, if not, game on.  That power supply should definitely be fine for the 6600 and the 2200g tho.