Help upgrading?

[Chois1]

Budget (including currency): £300

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

unity,

 a very large variety of games tbh

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): 

• CPU
  Ryzen 5 2600
• Motherboard
  Asrock b450m Steel legend
• RAM
  16gb corsair DDR4 3200
• GPU
  AMD RX 5600XT Thicc ii pro
• Case
  Fractal design Meshify s2
• Storage
  2tb Samsung ssd
  500gb Samsung ssd
  500gb crucial ssd
• PSU
  Corsair RM650

   

   

  Hello,

  i have a budget of £300 pounds and wanting to upgrade my pc, im not quite sure what i should upgrade first my cpu/mobo or just cpu. Or my gpu, any suggestions within the £300 budget or should i save more and get something a bit more at a later date?

[An0maly_76]

While your budget equates to 344 USD, that's not necessarily a linear comparison on which to go by.

 

That said, though I prefer Invidia GPUs, what you've got really isn't bad at all, and I'm not sure a processor upgrade would really be worth it, as the 2600 is a pretty hot little number for a Zen+. You might consider a GPU upgrade, but I'm not sure your budget permits anything worth doing.

 

THAT said, I believe your board should have a PCIe M.2 slot, and a PCIe M.2 could greatly decrease load times over what appear to be existing SATA SSDs. However, most AMD graphics cards are more than somewhat reliant on PCIe4 speeds to run well, and this could create issues with your GPU, so I would research this first.

 

Otherwise, I would suggest perhaps waiting a bit longer to save up for a 3060 / 3060ti, they seem to be the sweet spot in terms of price / performance for Invidia's lineup.

Edited November 1, 2022 by An0maly_76
Revised

[Chois1]

4 minutes ago, An0maly_76 said:

While your budget equates to 344 USD, that's not necessarily a linear comparison on which to go by.

 

That said, though I prefer Invidia GPUs, what you've got really isn't bad at all, and I'm not sure a processor upgrade would really be worth it, as the 2600 is a pretty hot little number for a Zen+. You might consider a GPU upgrade, but I'm not sure your budget permits anything worth doing.

 

THAT said, I believe your board should have a PCIe M.2 slot, and a PCIe M.2 could greatly decrease load times over what appear to be existing SATA SSDs. However, most AMD graphics cards are more than somewhat reliant on PCIe4 speeds to run well, and this could create issues with your GPU, so I would research this first.

 

Otherwise, I would suggest perhaps waiting a bit long to save up for a 3060 / 3060ti, they seem to be the sweet spot in terms of price / performance for Invidia's lineup.

Thanks, ill definitely look into a m.2, but ill probably end up saving for a 3060ti, again thanks for the advice

[An0maly_76]

9 minutes ago, Chois1 said:

Thanks, ill definitely look into a m.2, but ill probably end up saving for a 3060ti, again thanks for the advice

NP. Be aware that M.2s come in PCIe and SATA versions, and though some B+M slots can accept both, they do not interchange from a speed standpoint, a SATA M.2 isn't really faster than a SATA SSD. They are keyed differently -- B or M key.  Here is a list of the different PCI keys and what they support. The last 2-3 digits of the type (2280, 22110, etc.) are the length. As you can see, M-key goes for the gusto. But as I said, PCIe4 M.2 could cause issues with your GPU, so be sure of this before doing so. The drive may throttle back to PCIe3, but it may force the GPU to throttle back to PCIe3 also, hurting performance.

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by An0maly_76
Revised, more info