Looking For Some Help Upgrading

[w3ve]

Recently, I bought a new monitor that runs at 1440p and 144hz. My current pc can run 1440p fine, but struggles to reach the refresh rate in newer games. So If someone could help with what parts I should upgrade to that would be great. For context, my budget for upgrading is around $800 and I'm fine with buying a used gpu since they're alot better priced.

 

Current Specs are:

B450 asrock steel legend atx board

Ryzen 3 3300x with a vetroo v5 cooler

EVGA Hybrid Gtx 1070 ti 

16gb of ddr4 3200mhz ram

 

[Motifator]

I'd wait like 10-12 days, for the RX 7700 XT. Also, grab a 5700 at least and drop that in. Move the RAM to 32gb to eliminate running out of it as well. All can be done with that budget.

[Guest]

At no cost whatsoever you could lower the screen resolution.

[Kpi_Gz]

4 minutes ago, Thomas4 said:

At no cost whatsoever you could lower the screen resolution.

that should be the goal... 1070 ti with a R3 may be getting a little bit bottlenecked... but i would try to lower your in game settings first (optimizing game graphics has become a hobby on its own this days...) Or just choose between a higher fidelity at 2k or a higher framerate at 1080p. But your rig should remain pretty competitive for a while... so save the money to get a used 4090 when available   I think that upgrading that rig to get you to those fps counts would take at least 2000 bucks and you will need to upgrade everything... so again... save the money and wait for a complete system upgrade now thinking on DDR5 and things like DLSS and FSR... 

[LogicalDrm]

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[GeorgeMKane]

23 hours ago, w3ve said:

Recently, I bought a new monitor that runs at 1440p and 144hz. My current pc can run 1440p fine, but struggles to reach the refresh rate in newer games. So If someone could help with what parts I should upgrade to that would be great. For context, my budget for upgrading is around $800 and I'm fine with buying a used gpu since they're alot better priced.

 

Current Specs are:

B450 asrock steel legend atx board

Ryzen 3 3300x with a vetroo v5 cooler

EVGA Hybrid Gtx 1070 ti 

16gb of ddr4 3200mhz ram

 

Upgrade to a Ryzen 5 5600 and a RTX 3070Ti.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9PdMv3

 

 

If you can return the monitor for a 1080p monitor, then I would do so for trying to reach 144hz. You can reach that frame rate in competitive games like CSGO, CoD maybe, etc. Definitely not in regular games. You have a much better chance of hitting those high frame rates with 1080p.

Edited October 23, 2022 by GeorgeMKane