Prebuilt PC Upgrade

[Dan_au]

Budget (including currency): around 1000AUD

Country: Australia

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

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): 
Upgrading from 1060 6GB GPU, i7 8700, 16gb RAM (can't find which type), 128gb ssd and 1tb hdd. And for some reason it has a dvd drive... should I ditch it?.

I've been thinking of upgrading to a 3060 or 3070, but I don't know if my CPU can handle it, same with the motherboard. I'll try to get some more information on it

I haven't thought much about AMD because I know very little about it. If there are some recommendations for AMD because they are a lot better I will take them into account.

[Queen Chrysalis]

4 hours ago, Dan_au said:

Budget (including currency): around 1000AUD

Country: Australia

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

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): 
Upgrading from 1060 6GB GPU, i7 8700, 16gb RAM (can't find which type), 128gb ssd and 1tb hdd. And for some reason it has a dvd drive... should I ditch it?.

I've been thinking of upgrading to a 3060 or 3070, but I don't know if my CPU can handle it, same with the motherboard. I'll try to get some more information on it

I haven't thought much about AMD because I know very little about it. If there are some recommendations for AMD because they are a lot better I will take them into account.

Your CPu could handle a 6700xt or 3070 pretty well.  At 1440p it'd be ok with a 6800xt or 3080.

 

eBay is great for GPUs right now, but if you need new these would be fine.  What model PSU do you have?