Any Help Deciding on A Viable Upgrade Path for my PC?

[Peluge]

Budget (including currency): Flexible

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, Streaming, General Tasks. Occasionally some editing.

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 build is as follows:

ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PLUS
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming OC 8GB
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x
G.Skill Aegis 16Gb DDR4 "3200Mhz" (very unstable, needs to stay at 2133 tbh) 2x8
EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G+ PSU
be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4

Main monitor is an AORUS FI27Q-P 27" 1440p 165hz

I built the PC sometime in the Fall of 2019 I believe, everything at MSRP or discount with rebates and such so it was a good deal and has served me well, never really having to make major compromises in any new titles between performance and fidelity even at 1440p. However, with the release of the new CoD I've definitely had to sacrifice a lot  in the name of performance. Basically all low on everything with little distant terrain detail etc. Some other games, like Darktide (Beta) I've had to do some tweaking down to mediums and in Cyberpunk I definitely had to play around with settings a lot back when the game first launched.

By itself this isn't a huge issue especially since those games are or were (at the time) all horribly optimized and everything else I play on a regular basis runs basically flawlessly, but for the first time in years there is a massive amount of new games releasing in 2023 that I'm especially excited for so I've been thinking about upgrades. I came here for advice mostly because I have no idea what direction to look in as the market for new GPU's is kind of shit when upgrading from a build like this. Should I keep this build a few more years first? If so, are there any potential upgrades anyone can see that could be beneficial?

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies

[Crunchy Dragon]

If you absolutely need upgrades, I'd hit CPU, GPU, and RAM in that order.

 

If you don't need the upgrades but want a bit more performance, I'd point you towards your CPU, with the GPU following behind a little bit later.

[TylerD321]

20 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

If you absolutely need upgrades, I'd hit CPU, GPU, and RAM in that order.

 

If you don't need the upgrades but want a bit more performance, I'd point you towards your CPU, with the GPU following behind a little bit later.

If the ram is unstable, I would recommend CPU, then ram, then GPU.

 

I would go for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D if the motherboard supports it via bios updates. Then I would go for a set of 2x16gb 3200/3600 MHz CL16 ram. The GPU should be fine for a while longer with these upgrades and then you can choose whether you want to upgrade from there.

[Crunchy Dragon]

6 minutes ago, TylerD321 said:

If the ram is unstable, I would recommend CPU, then ram, then GPU.

 

I will go for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D if the motherboard supports it via bios updates. Then I would go for a set of 2x16gb 3200/3600 MHz CL16 ram. The GPU should be fine for a while longer with these upgrades and then you can choose whether you want to upgrade from there.

That's a good point, I had missed that on my initial read.

 

Definitely hit RAM before GPU.

[podkall]

@Crunchy Dragon@TylerD321

 

If the ram is unstable at 3200 why not try first OCing it to 3000 or something lower thabn 3200 instead?

[TylerD321]

3 minutes ago, podkall said:

@Crunchy Dragon@TylerD321

 

If the ram is unstable at 3200 why not try first OCing it to 3000 or something lower thabn 3200 instead?

I made the assumption that they had already tried this due to the quote below.

 

21 minutes ago, Peluge said:

"3200Mhz" (very unstable, needs to stay at 2133 tbh)

 

[Peluge]

4 minutes ago, podkall said:

@Crunchy Dragon@TylerD321

 

If the ram is unstable at 3200 why not try first OCing it to 3000 or something lower thabn 3200 instead?

Sorry if the wording was confusing but yeah as Tyler assumed above I have tried just about everything with the RAM unfortunately. Anything above 2133 causes blue screens for some reason.

I'm not super well versed on what makes RAM tick tbh and I had accepted defeat at this speed a long time ago, so it's possible there's some potential solution I'm unaware of, if there's anything you could think of I'd be willing to try before looking to upgrades for sure.

14 minutes ago, TylerD321 said:

If the ram is unstable, I would recommend CPU, then ram, then GPU.

 

I will go for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D if the motherboard supports it via bios updates. Then I would go for a set of 2x16gb 3200/3600 MHz CL16 ram. The GPU should be fine for a while longer with these upgrades and then you can choose whether you want to upgrade from there.

Thank you for this advice btw! @TylerD321 I was thinking the RAM would be the first to go and the easiest/cheapest to upgrade initially. As for the CPU, I believe the upgrade is supported but I do think a BIOS update is needed

[podkall]

33 minutes ago, Peluge said:

Sorry if the wording was confusing but yeah as Tyler assumed above I have tried just about everything with the RAM unfortunately. Anything above 2133 causes blue screens for some reason.

I'm not super well versed on what makes RAM tick tbh and I had accepted defeat at this speed a long time ago, so it's possible there's some potential solution I'm unaware of, if there's anything you could think of I'd be willing to try before looking to upgrades for sure.

Thank you for this advice btw! @TylerD321 I was thinking the RAM would be the first to go and the easiest/cheapest to upgrade initially. As for the CPU, I believe the upgrade is supported but I do think a BIOS update is needed

sounds like unlucky RNG with the RAM then...