Upgrade path. Need advice!

[Dead02]

Budget (including currency): $1500AUD

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Rocket league. PUBG. Valorant. 

Other details:

CURRENT SPECS:

i5 8600k @5.1ghz OC’d (old but I’d like to think is doing well for its age)

DDR4 16gb 2400mhz (yikes I know)

Asus ROG RTX 2070

750w 80+ Gold PSU

1440p 144hz monitor. Wanting a second monitor in the future.

 

So I’m looking to upgrade my pc. Cpu is getting quite old. Missing a lot of features like hyper threading and is 6 core 6 thread. 
 

unsure wether I should upgrade cpu mobo and ram. Or send a gpu upgrade. And if I do upgrade. Which team should I be opting for. And what tier would make it worth upgrading from a 2070. Thanks in advance. First time posting so please let me know how to post better

[Failure 101]

17 minutes ago, Dead02 said:

Budget (including currency): $1500AUD

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Rocket league. PUBG. Valorant. 

Other details:

CURRENT SPECS:

i5 8600k @5.1ghz OC’d (old but I’d like to think is doing well for its age)

DDR4 16gb 2400mhz (yikes I know)

Asus ROG RTX 2070

750w 80+ Gold PSU

1440p 144hz monitor. Wanting a second monitor in the future.

 

So I’m looking to upgrade my pc. Cpu is getting quite old. Missing a lot of features like hyper threading and is 6 core 6 thread. 
 

unsure wether I should upgrade cpu mobo and ram. Or send a gpu upgrade. And if I do upgrade. Which team should I be opting for. And what tier would make it worth upgrading from a 2070. Thanks in advance. First time posting so please let me know how to post better

Heres what i would do Sell the Board ram, gpu, cpu and (case?) as a combo ill say you could get maybe 500-550 aud for it? That leaves you with 2000-2050 AUD for a gpu (case?) ram and cpu which if you push the budget a little you can get something like this:

(can also swap xtx for xt to stay under the budget)

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($342.95 @ Mwave Australia) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650M DS3H Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($201.00 @ MSY Technology) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  ($198.00 @ Amazon Australia) 
Video Card: Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB Video Card  ($1459.00 @ MSY Technology) 
Total: $2200.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-14 14:44 AEST+1000
 

[PcBeExpensive]

3 hours ago, Failure 101 said:

Heres what i would do Sell the Board ram, gpu, cpu and (case?) as a combo ill say you could get maybe 500-550 aud for it? That leaves you with 2000-2050 AUD for a gpu (case?) ram and cpu which if you push the budget a little you can get something like this:

In aus 400 would be reasonable for those parts if selling.

[PcBeExpensive]

4 hours ago, Dead02 said:

Budget (including currency): $1500AUD

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Rocket league. PUBG. Valorant. 

Other details:

CURRENT SPECS:

i5 8600k @5.1ghz OC’d (old but I’d like to think is doing well for its age)

DDR4 16gb 2400mhz (yikes I know)

Asus ROG RTX 2070

750w 80+ Gold PSU

1440p 144hz monitor. Wanting a second monitor in the future.

 

So I’m looking to upgrade my pc. Cpu is getting quite old. Missing a lot of features like hyper threading and is 6 core 6 thread. 
 

unsure wether I should upgrade cpu mobo and ram. Or send a gpu upgrade. And if I do upgrade. Which team should I be opting for. And what tier would make it worth upgrading from a 2070. Thanks in advance. First time posting so please let me know how to post better

Sell the GPU, CPU, RAM, and MOBO for around $400 total that puts the budget up to $1900.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($289.00 @ Mwave Australia) 
CPU Cooler: Deepcool AK400 66.47 CFM CPU Cooler  ($38.00 @ MSY Technology) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($149.00 @ MSY Technology) 
Memory: TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($95.00 @ PCCaseGear) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($78.00 @ BPC Technology) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB Video Card  ($1239.00 @ JW Computers) 
Total: $1888.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-14 18:45 AEST+1000

Keep the same case and PSU, if you want you can re-use the cooler and take the ak400 off the parts list. You could probably get $50 for the cooler but your choice, I would personally keep the cooler.