New PC Builder Needing Help Please!

[absol2110]

Hi there everyone, 

 

Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this. I have recently bought a second hand PC and thinking of upgrading certain parts and was hoping to get some help from you lovely knowledgable people!

 

Budget (including currency): n/a

Country: South Africa

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Rainbow 6 Seige, COD Warzone, Overwatch 2

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): 

 

The system is as follows:

gtx 1660 super 6gb gpu

thermaltake 730w powersupply

amd rayson 5 5500

b550m pro mother board

16gb corsair ran 32mgz ddr4

1tb harddrive

sata SSD 500gb

 

I am thinking about upgrading the CPU, GPU or both. Here are my thoughts:
Possible options:

• Upgrade CPU to 5 5600x
• Upgrade GPU to a new Arc A750
• Upgrade GPU to secondhand 3060ti

The reason for this is that I have recently bought a Samsung 28" 4K UHD Monitor and I am upscaling 1080p through Nvidia upscaling to 4K (optimising frames to performance).

 

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and thank you again for taking the time.

Kindest regards,

Kieran.

[TatamiMatt]

42 minutes ago, absol2110 said:

Hi there everyone, 

 

Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this. I have recently bought a second hand PC and thinking of upgrading certain parts and was hoping to get some help from you lovely knowledgable people!

 

Budget (including currency): n/a

Country: South Africa

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Rainbow 6 Seige, COD Warzone, Overwatch 2

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): 

 

The system is as follows:

gtx 1660 super 6gb gpu

thermaltake 730w powersupply

amd rayson 5 5500

b550m pro mother board

16gb corsair ran 32mgz ddr4

1tb harddrive

sata SSD 500gb

 

I am thinking about upgrading the CPU, GPU or both. Here are my thoughts:
Possible options:

• Upgrade CPU to 5 5600x
• Upgrade GPU to a new Arc A750
• Upgrade GPU to secondhand 3060ti

The reason for this is that I have recently bought a Samsung 28" 4K UHD Monitor and I am upscaling 1080p through Nvidia upscaling to 4K (optimising frames to performance).

 

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and thank you again for taking the time.

Kindest regards,

Kieran.

the 5500 should be fine at the apparent budget but for 4k the 3060Ti will struggle, any chance of looking at a used 6800XT or 3070?

[Hellowpplz]

2 hours ago, TatamiMatt said:

the 5500 should be fine at the apparent budget but for 4k the 3060Ti will struggle, any chance of looking at a used 6800XT or 3070?

Even those will struggle oof. I would go for a 4070 S. same price as the 6800xt here in the US.

[TatamiMatt]

4 minutes ago, Hellowpplz said:

Even those will struggle oof. I would go for a 4070 S. same price as the 6800xt here in the US.

Really? A used 6800XT is the same price as a used 4070S?

[Hellowpplz]

5 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Really? A used 6800XT is the same price as a used 4070S?

new* MB i missed where you said used

[TatamiMatt]

37 minutes ago, Hellowpplz said:

new* MB i missed where you said used

No worries, should be just over the budget of the 3060Ti for a lot more performance, 4070 would be ideal but i think thats pushing the budget a little too much

[BentleyOwen123]

if you can strech, the 7700xt is on sale on newegg rn for 399, and id say leave the cpu and save for a more substantial upgrade, to a 5800x or 5800x3d later

[BentleyOwen123]

and try to resale your 1660, you could most likely get ~$150, although i dont know what the used market is like there, and then maybe a 4070?