Upgrading a prebuilt

[GigabyteGamer420]

Budget (including currency): $1000 USD MAX

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 1440p Rainbow six call of duty at high frame rates and high settings

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 Setup

Omen 30L

Ryzen 5 5600g

Oem motherboard with no bios

4 memory slots

3x8 gig sticks of 3200 megahertz ram

Oem Rtx 3060

cooler master 500 watt power supply

2 tb WD black hard drive

1 tb WD blue NVME SSD

omen 30L case

stock cpu cooler

 

Upgrades

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GkYhBj
Case is an optional if I can

Edited September 27, 2022 by GigabyteGamer420
missed a piece

[NF-A12x25]

23 minutes ago, GigabyteGamer420 said:

no bios

Your motherboard has a bios/UEFI, no motherboard doesn’t.

 

IDK if I would upgrade to a 3070 from a 3060, to be honest I would get a 3080 12g and a 1000W PSU if I already had a 3060 and wanted an upgrade, but ymmv. I’d wait to upgrade the mobo and spend that money on the GPU tbh.

[fisterkev]

I wouldn't do that upgrade. You're spending over $800 and not getting a whole lot in terms of performance in return. You're effectively just going from a 3060 to a 3070. None of the other upgrades will give you anything in terms of performance. 

 

If you're gonna spend $800, then make it worth it. 

[GigabyteGamer420]

8 minutes ago, NF-A12x25 said:

IDK if I would upgrade to a 3070 from a 3060, to be honest I would get a 3080 12g and a 1000W PSU if I already had a 3060 and wanted an upgrade, but ymmv. Your motherboard has a bios/UEFI, no motherboard doesn’t. I’d wait to upgrade the mobo and spend that money on the GPU tbh.

The motherboard is an HP Bios

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I have access to nothing

[NF-A12x25]

3 minutes ago, GigabyteGamer420 said:

The motherboard is an HP Bios

I

I have access to nothing

Right, it’s not ideal, but if you want to overclock you should use Ryzen Master. I get that you want a good motherboard, but your budget is limited and to get a more noticeable performance boost you should upgrade to a 3080 or 3080ti and a good PSU or wait until 4000 series goes on sale and upgrade GPU and PSU then.

 

Try updating your BIOS btw- a newer version of the BIOS may have better options.

[fisterkev]

You have a 5800X in there? Your OP said that you have a 5600G. If you already have a R7 5800X in there, then that changes things. Put the bulk of your money into a GPU upgrade, either a 3080 or maybe a RX 6800 XT + PSU.

[GigabyteGamer420]

7 minutes ago, fisterkev said:

You have a 5800X in there? Your OP said that you have a 5600G. If you already have a R7 5800X in there, then that changes things. Put the bulk of your money into a GPU upgrade, either a 3080 or maybe a RX 6800 XT + PSU.

Sorry I can't get a picture right now I just googled it. Thanks for the suggestion I will look into it

 

[GigabyteGamer420]

Just now, GigabyteGamer420 said:

Sorry I can't get a picture right now I just googled it. Thanks for the suggestion I will look into it

 

Anything you would recommend upgrading?

[fisterkev]

Oh that's not yours? You have a 5600G in there? Then back to "don't bother" lol... Your current build is actually fairly decent and well-balanced. If you start changing major parts out you'll create an imbalance that'll just leave you wanting to upgrade more...

 

You could certainly upgrade the GPU, but your 5600G would hold any worthwhile upgrade back, although it wouldn't be terrible. That'll require a PSU upgrade. You'd certainly notice the performance boost in a good way. But you'd likely want to upgrade the CPU soon after in order to not bottleneck your GPU. And that'll likely lead to a new motherboard. And you're wanting to upgrade your case and CPU cooler as well...

 

Before you know it, with the exception of the storage and RAM, you'll be staring at a new computer. And you'll probably end up spending a bit more than $1k.

 

Personally, for the performance you appear to be looking for, I'd save a little more money and just build that new machine. Part out the old PC to subsidize it and shoot for a $1500-ish build.

 

I definitely wouldn't spend $800 to go from a 3060 to a 3070.

 

ETA: Assuming that you keep your storage and RAM, you could shoot for something like this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2hDKGL

 

That would be a pretty balanced system that'd last you for quite a while. Parting out your current PC could knock a few hundred off of that price, too.

[NF-A12x25]

12 minutes ago, fisterkev said:

But you'd likely want to upgrade the CPU soon after in order to not bottleneck your GPU

5600G shouldn’t bottleneck a 3080/Ti at 1440p

[fisterkev]

16 minutes ago, NF-A12x25 said:

5600G shouldn’t bottleneck a 3080/Ti at 1440p

Ah you're right, I was thinking OP was looking at 1080p and 1440p, another thread. It would bottleneck 1080p but should be OK at 1440p.

 

Still not a particularly great match going forward, though, as the 3080 will likely outpace in future games.

[GigabyteGamer420]

Okay I decided to go to the Radeon 6800xt and switch out the case and power supply. It was the best combination for FPS increase and the case because I only have one front fan on my old case. Does that sound good?