A little help please

[Roberto_Torres]

Budget (including currency): 800 USD

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming and a little photo 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): Hi peeps, I want to make some upgrades to my computer, at the moment I have 

 

Mother board: MSI B450 GAMING PLUS MAX (Item# N82E16813144264) on new egg

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3rd Gen (Item#: N82E16819113569)

GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 2060 6GB (Item#: N82E16814137396)

RAM: 32GB G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (Item#: N82E16820232861)

Power Supply: CORSAIR CX Series CX650 650W ATX12V 80 PLUS BRONZE (Item#: N82E16817139200)

Memory: Corsair Force MP510 M.2 2280 960GB (Item#: N82E16820236477)

                Seagate BarraCuda ST3000DM007 3TB (Item#: 1Z4-002P-008Y2)

Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4 (Item#: 9SIAADY5BC3600)

Case: Fractal Design Focus G (Item#: N82E16811352067)

Monito: Dell - S3220DGF 32" LED Curved QHD FreeSync Monitor with HDR (Item#: 9SIAAEEJTF8056)

 

I have about 800usd to make some upgrades. I really want more m.2 as I want more space but Im really interested in knowing if this was your set up what thing would you upgrade on it. 

Thanks in advance 

 

 

[Needfuldoer]

I'd update the BIOS on that motherboard, get a Ryzen 5800X3D, and wait for confirmed pricing on the upcoming midrange GPUs. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

2tb nvmes are like 80$ for the dram ones like the silicon power a80

 

Anything your current pc stuggles with? Cause if it struggles with cpu intensive stuff you can buy a 5500/5600 (prefer former if price diff >20$) or a 5700x and clock to 4.7-4.8 allcore.

 

If your games can utilize extra cpu cache (ex factorio) then you can get a 5800x3d, lock the multi to 45.5 and bclk to 104 for 4.73 allcore

 

If its gpu that your pc struggles with then even with a 300$ ish 5800x3d and an 80$ 2tb theres still 420$ (nice) left so you can go and grab a used rx 6800 off ebay for 350-400$

[PDifolco]

You can get a cheap M2  2TB drive then I would upgrade the GPU for gaming, maybe a $500 6800xt

[Why_Me]

Update your board's bios before hand.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($181.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: *MSI MECH 2X OC Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card  ($319.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $501.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-05-18 11:52 EDT-0400

 

[SorryBella]

14 hours ago, Why_Me said:

Update your board's bios before hand.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($181.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: *MSI MECH 2X OC Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card  ($319.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $501.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-05-18 11:52 EDT-0400

 

slap in an MP600 2TB as the new boot drive and then use the rest for cold storage drive. +1, especially if youre not on Photoshop and editing big files that would need CUDA backing to run smoothly.