Starfield Upgrades

[Beafy]

Budget (including currency): $300-$800

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Other details  Wanting to upgrade for Starfield more than likely being played at 1440 60fps preferred. Mobo- asrock a520m-hdv GPU-3060  CPU- R5 3600 RAM- 32gbs of ddr4 at 3400 I believe, currently plan on keeping the 3060 and was thinking about just dropping in a Ryzen 9 5900x in place of my 3600. My only concern with that is the cheap mobo would that have any potential issues? I'd prefer to just upgrade the CPU currently as to upgraded fully due to my current setup serving me fine just wanting a beefier cpu for Starfield instead of scraping the bottom of the barrel. I understand it's currently hard for a for sure answer due to it not being released but just want some other thoughts. 

 

[venomtail]

Yea, your current motherboard would struggle to keep the VRM's cool.

 

Since you'd need a new CPU and motherboard, you've got options here.

Either go with last gen 5800X3D and new B550 motherboard, spend about half your budget

or 7800X3D and some B650E motherboard that tops your budget.

 

These both will knock it out of the park on the CPU side but a 3060 will be interesting to see how it holds up. Doubt it will do 2k ultra, maybe 2k medium at most I'd guess knowing Bethesdas optimisation.

[Beafy]

5 hours ago, venomtail said:

Yea, your current motherboard would struggle to keep the VRM's cool.

 

Since you'd need a new CPU and motherboard, you've got options here.

Either go with last gen 5800X3D and new B550 motherboard, spend about half your budget

or 7800X3D and some B650E motherboard that tops your budget.

 

These both will knock it out of the park on the CPU side but a 3060 will be interesting to see how it holds up. Doubt it will do 2k ultra, maybe 2k medium at most I'd guess knowing Bethesdas optimisation.

it recommends a 2080, and gpu is the next upgrade, didnt plan on building a new pc until tes6 in all honesty but here we are lol

 

[PcBeExpensive]

On 6/18/2023 at 6:08 AM, Beafy said:

Budget (including currency): $300-$800

Country: 

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

Other details  Wanting to upgrade for Starfield more than likely being played at 1440 60fps preferred. Mobo- asrock a520m-hdv GPU-3060  CPU- R5 3600 RAM- 32gbs of ddr4 at 3400 I believe, currently plan on keeping the 3060 and was thinking about just dropping in a Ryzen 9 5900x in place of my 3600. My only concern with that is the cheap mobo would that have any potential issues? I'd prefer to just upgrade the CPU currently as to upgraded fully due to my current setup serving me fine just wanting a beefier cpu for Starfield instead of scraping the bottom of the barrel. I understand it's currently hard for a for sure answer due to it not being released but just want some other thoughts. 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($289.06 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($39.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($99.99 @ Newegg) 
Video Card: ASRock Challenger D OC Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card  ($309.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $738.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-18 19:42 EDT-0400

Do this with a 5800x3d and an Asus board, if you already have a good enough cooler you can take that cooler off the list. The 6700xt performs much better than the 3060 and the 5900x is not needed for just gaming. You can keep and reuse the RAM as long as it has a cl timing on 16 or under. Also that motherboard does not have wifi so if you don't use ethernet and need wifi you can either get a wifi card or get a different board.