What to upgrade

[Paasta]

Budget (including currency): 6000 sek (around 550usd)

Country: Sweden

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 1080p gaming and some CAD

Games i want to play: Remnant 2, Payday 3, Cities skylines 2, and some vr games with less stuttering

 

Current setup 

CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC
RAM: 2x 8GB DDR4 3000MHz
Power: Corsair TX550M / 550W / 80+ Gold
Motherboard: ASUS Prime B450-PLUS

 

I built this computer about 5 years ago and it has come to a point where it cant really keep up with some of the newer games i want to play. And since black friday and christmas sales are coming up i thought id get some upgrade but i really dont know what is worth it or if i should just wait till i have a bigger budget and upgrade the entire thing.

 

id be really happy to get some recommendations, RayTracing is not super important to me heard that amd cant do that really well 

[Why_Me]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor  (kr2301.00 @ CDON SE) 
CPU Cooler: *Deepcool AK400 66.47 CFM CPU Cooler  (kr396.00 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Memory: *Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (kr873.00 @ Amazon Sweden) 
Total: kr3570.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-11-16 14:57 CET+0100

[Imakuni]

There's not much of a secret, choose between:

1. grabbing a better CPU and pumping the rest of the money on the GPU
2. grabbing the card now and waiting until you can sell the old one to recoup some of the cash, and then go the processor...

At any rate, it's hard to make recommendations to a foreign used market, but I'd look for a 5700x (or the 5800 / 5800x, if price is the same) and something around the RTX 3060 TI. Given you use CAD, there's a pretty good chance you'll need CUDA at some point, so stick to NVIDIA.

[Paasta]

instead of going to the highest my Motherboard supports would it be smarter to get a newer mobo to support more newer things like am5 and ddr5?

 

[Tetras]

4 minutes ago, Paasta said:

instead of going to the highest my Motherboard supports would it be smarter to get a newer mobo to support more newer things like am5 and ddr5?

There's a pretty large uplift between zen+ and zen 3 (see here *), with the 5600 and 5700 competitively priced, so it's going to cost you a lot more to replace everything.

 

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[SupaKomputa]

Get a 5600x, a used RX5700 / 2060, and 16gb more memory.

[Imakuni]

1 hour ago, Paasta said:

instead of going to the highest my Motherboard supports would it be smarter to get a newer mobo to support more newer things like am5 and ddr5?

The 5700x isn't even the highest, there's the 5800X3D too. And besides, it only matters if you have the GPU to back it up, which you're still far away from.

 

So no, it ain't worth it.

[Paasta]

So getting the ryzen 7 5700x plus 32 gig 3200 ram is the cheapest best upgrade i can do at this moment