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Should I eventually upgrade

Nivalis
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Budget (including currency): $300 - $400 

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Programming, game development, gaming

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- Ryzen 5 5500

- Nvidia RTX 4080

- 16gb RAM (3600 mHZ)

- Asrock A520M-HDV

- 750 watt PSU (might upgrade to 850 watt)


So my question is: should I upgrade? The component I might want to upgrade is my cpu, since it isn’t the best cpu for a 4080. The 5500 works fine, but I’m not sure if it will hold up. If I were to upgrade, I’d probably get a 5800X3D since I don’t have to upgrade my motherboard that way. 

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4 minutes ago, Nivalis said:

The component I might want to upgrade is my cpu, since it isn’t the best cpu for a 4080. The 5500 works fine, but I’m not sure if it will hold up. If I were to upgrade, I’d probably get a 5800X3D since I don’t have to upgrade my motherboard that way. 

no need to upgrade psu. What I'd do is get a 5800X3D and a new mobo

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46 minutes ago, Nivalis said:

Budget (including currency): $300 - $400 

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Programming, game development, gaming

Other details:

- Ryzen 5 5500

- Nvidia RTX 4080

- 16gb RAM (3600 mHZ)

- Asrock A520M-HDV

- 750 watt PSU (might upgrade to 850 watt)


So my question is: should I upgrade? The component I might want to upgrade is my cpu, since it isn’t the best cpu for a 4080. The 5500 works fine, but I’m not sure if it will hold up. If I were to upgrade, I’d probably get a 5800X3D since I don’t have to upgrade my motherboard that way. 

Yes, you should upgrade.  Eventually.

 

Are you pre-worrying?  If it's fine, why upgrade?  If you want to upgrade, do so.

 

Do you usually replace things that work fine?

 

It's a deeper question.  What's driving this feeling you have.  Money burning a hole in the pocket?  Someone comment your 5500 is weak?   Buddy talking about upgrading or buying a new system?

 

Just not sure why to upgrade when things are working fine.

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4 hours ago, Nivalis said:

- Ryzen 5 5500

- Nvidia RTX 4080

- 16gb RAM (3600 mHZ)

- Asrock A520M-HDV

- 750 watt PSU (might upgrade to 850 watt)

holy shit someone is actually insane enough to build this

 

I would love to know your performance and CPU-GPU load in game if you played at below 4K in games, someone at reddit told me about this combo and I really want to know how it performs ever since. It'll also help me answer the question, although in interim @Dedayog speaks the most sense. If you just recently build this, just don't upgrade if you don't have massive performance issue. Although either way a 32GB RAM upgrade is amazing to have for W11, if you haven't considered it that would be my first thing to hit.

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On 10/31/2023 at 12:49 PM, SorryBella said:

holy shit someone is actually insane enough to build this

 

I would love to know your performance and CPU-GPU load in game if you played at below 4K in games, someone at reddit told me about this combo and I really want to know how it performs ever since. It'll also help me answer the question, although in interim @Dedayog speaks the most sense. If you just recently build this, just don't upgrade if you don't have massive performance issue. Although either way a 32GB RAM upgrade is amazing to have for W11, if you haven't considered it that would be my first thing to hit.

Sorry for not replying, I haven’t been on these forums for a while. Anyways, if you are still interested: it works well considering how much of a bottleneck the 5500 could be.

 

In Cities: Skylines 2 I have around 60% CPU usage and 91% GPU usage with 41,000 citizens on ultra settings. I’m getting a very steady 36 fps with it dropping to 34 occasionally (this is on 1080p)


I don’t have many other games on my pc currently. If you would like to see the performance on Stormworks and/or HOI4 I would be happy to send them.

 

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