Upgrade GPU into a old Build

[Deadman13]

Looking for some advise. wanting to upgrade my computer to run higher setting on my Quest2 VR. Looking on upgrading AMD GPU ( rx6000, rx7000 series), but concerned my computer might have out-of-date component. any advise? Budget $600.00

• CPU
  Ryzen 7 1700 3Ghz
• Motherboard
  ASRock B450 Steel Legend
• RAM
  Team T-Force Delta II RGB Series 32GB
• GPU
  Phantom Gaming RX570 8G
• Case
  CORSAIR - iCUE 220T RGB Airflow
• Storage
  Team Group 250G SSD
• PSU
  Corsair CX 750M
• Display(s)
  AOC LED
• Cooling
  Stock Cooler
• Keyboard
  Corsair K55
• Mouse
  Corsair Harpoon
• Sound
  Logitech Z130
• Operating System
  Windows 10 Pro 64 bits

[Fasauceome]

3 minutes ago, Deadman13 said:

wanting to upgrade my computer to run higher setting on my Quest2 VR

For VR, your CPU will also be a good upgrade since you need high frame rates. A used Ryzen 7 3700X would be a big jump, combined with an RX 6600 or 6600 XT you would be looking at a pretty good setup.

 

4 minutes ago, Deadman13 said:

Team T-Force Delta II RGB Series 32GB

How fast is your ram?

[Deadman13]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

For VR, your CPU will also be a good upgrade since you need high frame rates. A used Ryzen 7 3700X would be a big jump, combined with an RX 6600 or 6600 XT you would be looking at a pretty good setup.

 

How fast is your ram?

3000Mhz DDR4

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Deadman13 said:

3000Mhz DDR4

pretty decent for a Ryzen based system. However, keep in mind that with a newer Ryzen CPU, you get the benefit of a better memory controller, and if you want, you can try an overclock on the memory.

[Dukesilver27-]

If your RAM is close to 3200 CL16, then this would be a great upgrade, assuming it is $600 US.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/89LqJM

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($149.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($49.99 @ B&H)
Video Card: XFX Speedster SWFT 319 Radeon RX 6800 16 GB Video Card  ($399.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $598.98

[Deadman13]

19 minutes ago, Dukesilver27- said:

If your RAM is at close to 3200 CL16, then this would be a great upgrade, assuming it is $600 US.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/89LqJM

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($149.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($49.99 @ B&H)
Video Card: XFX Speedster SWFT 319 Radeon RX 6800 16 GB Video Card  ($399.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $598.98

what would happen if I keep my CPU and just upgrade the GPU. NOTE. I would like to play racing sim game and games like cyberpunk 2077 on at least MID setting ?

[Dukesilver27-]

CP2077 is very CPU intensive or not optimized enough.

RX 6800 is a decently powerful GPU, whereas 1700X is just slow for today's standard. Mid settings or not, the main issue is it is an open world RPG, which usually are quite heavy on the CPU.

I can't estimate the bottleneck, but if I have to guess, in 1080p max settings (w/o RT), I'd say 80% GPU usage is the maximum you could achieve, it's also possible to have stuttering.

How could I say that? Well, I have i5-12400 and 6800 XT, playing in 1440p, max settings with RT and FSR2 Quality mode, when RT is off, my GPU could not achieve 95-100% usage. 12400 is about 30% faster than 1700X.

If you keep 1700X, the highest GPU I'd go for is RX 6600, even then it would be a bit bottlenecked by the PCIE GEN 3 of 1700X, RX 6600 is gen 4x8.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 hour ago, Deadman13 said:

Ryzen 7 1700 3Ghz

Just drop in a used 5600(x), theyre usually around 80-100$

 

Now that leaves 500$ for the gpu

400-500$ will get you a used 6800xt/6900xt or 3080(ti), buying new last gen is pretty stupid when used offers some massive discounts, id say the only new gpu worth your time would be a 4070 which are around 550$ cause even if theyre a tad worse than a 6800xt atleast you get some really good power efficiency