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Budget (including currency): $300-$500

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Davinci Resolve, Lightroom, OBS/Streaming, gaming varies: I have many old games on steam. I play RTS, FPS... pretty much what every I feel like playing no one particular genera. Older AAA titles. 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): My current PC is about 7 years old, maybe. I got it from iBuypower. It originally had a i5-7500, GTX 1050Ti, 1000w Power supply, with a NZXT 120 All in one. About three years ago I upgraded the ram to 32GB of DDR4 G.SKill Ram. In my most recent upgrade I was able to find a RTX 3060Ti for short money. And put that in the system. Obviously, I am having severe bottleneck issues. I know in order to upgrade the CPU I need a new motherboard. 

 

My questions are these: what is a good motherboard/cpu combo that will allow me to, one, stay within budget, and two, get the best performance out of my GPU. I know the ram is old but I believe functional, I am teacher in the USA with my children money is tight. But I would like to do upgrades a little at a time. I guess some follow-ups would be should I plan to upgrade the cooler as well and what is the life expectancy on a PSU? 

 

As far as where to buy I can drive to a microcenter but its a little bit of a haul. That's why I am coming here first. 

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5 minutes ago, ProfessorBear_51015 said:

Budget (including currency): $300-$500

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Davinci Resolve, Lightroom, OBS/Streaming, gaming varies: I have many old games on steam. I play RTS, FPS... pretty much what every I feel like playing no one particular genera. Older AAA titles. 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): My current PC is about 7 years old, maybe. I got it from iBuypower. It originally had a i5-7500, GTX 1050Ti, 1000w Power supply, with a NZXT 120 All in one. About three years ago I upgraded the ram to 32GB of DDR4 G.SKill Ram. In my most recent upgrade I was able to find a RTX 3060Ti for short money. And put that in the system. Obviously, I am having severe bottleneck issues. I know in order to upgrade the CPU I need a new motherboard. 

 

My questions are these: what is a good motherboard/cpu combo that will allow me to, one, stay within budget, and two, get the best performance out of my GPU. I know the ram is old but I believe functional, I am teacher in the USA with my children money is tight. But I would like to do upgrades a little at a time. I guess some follow-ups would be should I plan to upgrade the cooler as well and what is the life expectancy on a PSU? 

 

As far as where to buy I can drive to a microcenter but its a little bit of a haul. That's why I am coming here first. 

What PSU is that exactly?  1000w in a PC of that performance level is suspect.

 

Best upgrade budget wise is a Ryzen 5600 + motherboard.  Keep your RAM and everything else.  

 

Let me know if budget is more than that, kinda went with the best cheapest option. Use stock cooler if money is tight.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($129.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock B550M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $219.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-11-30 09:42 EST-0500

 

Your absolute best upgrade is taking that family trip to Microcenter and getting the 7800x3d bundle.. if they have it in stock, check your store. Need a decent cooler then too.  Peerless Assassin, any flavor.

 

https://www.microcenter.com/product/5006599/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d,-msi-b650-p-pro-wifi-ddr5,-gskill-flare-x5-series-32gb-ddr5-6000-kit,-computer-build-bundle

 

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"Do what makes the experience better" - in regards to PCs and Life itself.

 

Onyx: Ryzen 7 7800X3D / Gigabyte B650 AORUS Pro AX / ASRock Taichi 7900xtx OC / G. Skill Flare X5 6000CL36 64GB (4x16GB) / Samsung 980 1TB x3 / Super Flower Leadex V Plat Pro 1000 / EK-AIO 360 Basic w/ Silent Wings fans / Fractal Design North XL (black mesh) / LG - UltraGear 45" OLED QHD 240Hz / Mackie CR5BT / SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro / Cherry MX Board 3.0 / Logitech G502 - https://valid.x86.fr/my9nnr

 

7800X3D - PBO +200, CO -30 all cores, 4.90GHz all core, 5.05GHz single core, Cinebench 23: 18401 multi, 1779 single

 

Khaleesi: Ryzen 5 5600X3D (+200, -30) - ASRock B550M Pro4 - G. Skill Ripjaws V 16GB 3200CL16 - Asus Prime 9060XT 16GB - Samsung 980 1TB + Crucial MX500 1TB - Cudy AX3000 PCIe Wifi 6 - EVGA SuperNOVA 650 P2 - Thermalright Frozen Notte RGB 360 White V2 - NZXT H6 Flow RGB White - LG 34" 3440x1440

 

NAS/Plex/Game Server  Ryzen 9 5900XT 16c/32t - Gigabyte B550M AORUS Elite AX - TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan 64GB 3200CL16 - MSI 1050Ti 4GB - Crucial P3 Plus 500GB + TeamGroup MP44L 2TB (Game) + WD Red Plus 4TBx2 (Plex) - TP-Link AC1200 PCIe Wifi - EVGA SuperNOVA 650 P2 - Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120SE - ASUS Prime AP201 - Currently Hosting: Enshrouded x2, Hytale, Icarus, Windrose. Project Zomboid, Dune Awakening.

 

Sage: Ryzen 7 7800X3D (+200, -30) - Gigabyte B650 Gaming X V2 - ASRock Steel Legend 7900GRE - G. Skill Flare X5 32GB 6000CL32 - TeamGroup MP44L 2TB - Super Flower Leadex Platinum SE 1000w - NZXT H5 Elite

 

Emma: i9 9900K @5.2Ghz - Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 - MSI 6900XT Gaming X Trio - G. Skill Ripjaws V 32GB 3200CL16 - 750 EVO 512GB + 2x 860 EVO 1TB (RAID0) - Super Flower Combat FG 850w - Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360 - Fractal Design Define R6 - TP-Link AC1900 PCIe Wifi

 

GF Rig: Steam Deck 512GB OLED, Vizio 43" 4K TV

 

Extra parts: ASUS 6650XT - Gigabyte 1080Ti - Cooler Master Q300L - Gigabyte 450w PSU - Super Flower Leadex V Plat Pro 850w

 

OnePlus Ecosystem: 

OnePlus 11 5G - 16GB RAM, 256GB NAND, Eternal Green. OnePlus Watch 2 - Radiant Steel, OnePlus Buds Pro 2 - Eternal Green

3D Printing: 

Bambu Lab X1 Carbon, AMS, AMS2 Pro (thank you MicroCenter!)

Other Interesting Tech:

- 2021 Volvo S60 Recharge T8 PHEV Polestar Engineered - 415hp/495tq 2.0L 4cyl. turbocharged, supercharged and electrified.

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1 minute ago, Dedayog said:

What PSU is that exactly?  1000w in a PC of that performance level is suspect.

 

Best upgrade budget wise is a Ryzen 5600 + motherboard.  Keep your RAM and everything else.  

 

Let me know if budget is more than that, kinda went with the best cheapest option.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($129.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock B550M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $219.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-11-30 09:42 EST-0500

 

Thank you. I am not sure the PSU was a name brand its just 1000W Standard 80 PLUS Bronze as per the receipt from iBuypower. 

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6 hours ago, Dedayog said:

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($129.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock B550M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $219.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Btw you can cut this to around 150$ if you buy a used 5600(x) and a used b3/450 board which go for 80-100$ and ~50$ respectively, 100$ if you went for a used 3600(x) instead for 50-60$

 

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3tx4Xb

12600k + z690 pg4 for 260$

 

Pretty good combo if you are buying new and wanna stay under budget

 

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9T37pB

5800x3d + b450m/ac

 

Very good for gaming especially games like factorio that leverage the cache, though it will fall flat on things that dont use the extra cache like esports titles

 

There does happen to be a cheap new b450 board but id reccomend buying used anyways as for the same price for this lower end b450 you can get boards like the tomahawk, strix f, aorus elite, steel legend, etc. Which offer more i/o with better vrms and overclocking via bclk atleast on the msi and asus boards as a bonus (though you may have kinda meh results on an nvme drive if it happens to hate higher pcie freq but varies by nvme drives)

 

Edit : somehow entirely forgot to mention that to get the price down youd wanna buy the 5800x3d used, should be around the 200-250$ mark used

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