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mopman94
By mopman94
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Budget (including currency): As low as possible

Country: United Kingdom

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I am looking to gradually upgrade parts of my system to improve it's performance, I do end up chugging on things like MS Flight Simulator and other large titles like this.

 

I am thinking the first thing to do is fit an M.2 drive because my motherboard has a slot for one I am not using and move my OS onto it (upgrading to Win 11 at the same time). Would this be suitable for the job? I'm not looking to spend to much: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Plus-PCIe-Gen4-Internal/dp/B0BYWB6237/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1UMJ8XQQ34TYY&keywords=m.2+ssd&qid=1699135259&sprefix=m.2+ssd%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-3

 

I am then thinking I could upgrade my CPU to a Ryzen 7 5700x, I believe my motherboard and PSU can handle it but please correct me if I am wrong: https://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-Ryzen-5700X-Processor-16-thread/dp/B09VCHQHZ6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UBF9M6KM0TR6&keywords=ryzen%2B7%2B5600&qid=1699136025&sprefix=ryzen%2B7%2B5600%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.cc223b57-2b86-485c-a85e-6431c1f06c86&th=1 Does this Ryzen 7 come with a stock cooler in the box or would I need one?

 

Are there any other things I should consider upgrading? Obviously I'd like to upgrade my RTX2070 but GPU prices are ridiculous so I'd be looking at £500 for a substantial enough upgrade at which point we get into the territory of I may as well build a new PC from scratch.

 

Many thanks

 

|| Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 || RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengance (3000) || Motherboard: ASUS Prime B450-Plus || Graphics Card: Gigabyte RTX2070 || Storage: 750GB SSD (2 Drives), 3TB HDD (2 Drives) || Case: NZXT H500 || Power Supply: be quiet! Pure Power 11 600W || 

 

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Get the 5700X, that's the best budget upgrade you can do to that system.

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M.2 drives are nice, but if you already have a SSD for your OS and for anything that is speed sensitive, then it's not likely to change much.

 

I believe that Flight Sim likes the X3D a lot, but unfortunately I can't find any benchmarks for this game comparing the 2600 and Zen 3 CPUs.

 

50 minutes ago, mopman94 said:

I believe my motherboard and PSU can handle it but please correct me if I am wrong

You'd almost certainly need a BIOS update, unless you update regularly.

 

51 minutes ago, mopman94 said:

Does this Ryzen 7 come with a stock cooler in the box or would I need one?

I believe the 5600/5600X do, the 5700X/5800X do not.

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