Upgrade or New System?

[CaptainKster]

Budget (including currency): 500 GBP

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  Modern Warfare 2 2022

Other details: So I have a quite an old but modest system. i7700k GTX 1080 but it is definitely showing its age when trying to run the new COD. 

 

Is it worth building a new system from ground up as I don't experience a major bottleneck with either CPU or GPU or will maybe upgrading my GPU and over clocking my CPU be enough to run the game at quite a decent quality. Only looking for 60fps. What's some decent budget components to maybe upgrade to? 

[PDifolco]

7 minutes ago, CaptainKster said:

Budget (including currency): 500 GBP

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  Modern Warfare 2 2022

Other details: So I have a quite an old but modest system. i7700k GTX 1080 but it is definitely showing its age when trying to run the new COD. 

 

Is it worth building a new system from ground up as I don't experience a major bottleneck with either CPU or GPU or will maybe upgrading my GPU and over clocking my CPU be enough to run the game at quite a decent quality. Only looking for 60fps. What's some decent budget components to maybe upgrade to? 

You can't get a new system even close to yours with 500GBP...

So I'd say upgrade your GPU, you can get a 6750XT which is like 60% faster than a 1080

[CaptainKster]

2 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

You can't get a new system even close to yours with 500GBP...

So I'd say upgrade your GPU, you can get a 6750XT which is like 60% faster than a 1080

Cheers for advice. Will that not cause bottlenecks with my CPU? 

[Pixelfie]

I would just upgrade the components that have an impact on performance but reuse the rest. If you sell the old components you should have money for a better CPU, GPU and motherboard which I list below.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£139.99 @ Box Limited)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 GAMING X V2 ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£103.49 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card  (£423.48 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £666.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-10-31 14:42 GMT+0000

[PDifolco]

2 minutes ago, CaptainKster said:

Cheers for advice. Will that not cause bottlenecks with my CPU? 

definitely, but it won't prevent you to get high fps

otoh upgrading the CPU and keeping the 1080 will make you heavily GPU bottlenecked

But btw you shoudl wait a couple weeks to buy a GPU given AMD will announce the 7000 series in 3 days !