Upgrade for gf

[VibinYo]

Budget (including currency): not sure maybe 3-400 CAD +-

Country: canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: just any games some blender idk if that requires any specific hardware to be better

Other details existing parts : 1660 non super

i5 9400f

32gb ddr4 

And have nvme storage i believe 

its a prebuild form cyberpower i believe with some upgrades to ram and storage

 

i was wondering what would make most sense to upgrade since she is having issues playing some more newer graphically intense games, i figured just gpu? But i cant decide which one is most worth. Amd is out of the question because too much issue with drivers 

 

 

but i was wondering if the cpu is also any good still or if we would be better of getting a whole new system

 

sorry if bad info just ask if there is anything

[Why_Me]

What's the make, model & age of her psu?

[adm0n]

34 minutes ago, VibinYo said:

blender

Here Nvidia is definitely better. Otherwise AMD has mostly cleaned up their driver issues. And generally have better prices currently.

 

If you need a card now, because you can't play the games you want to, the best you could do would be a 3070 or 4060 (ti) depending on whether you are willing to buy used cards or not. Those are both 8GB VRAM cards, which kinda makes them bad for some games already. So don't expect the card to be able to play the most demanding games for a long time.

 

By the end of this year, the next gen of cards will launch. But it will probably take a whole year, until the lower end cards show up. But that time, you might be able to get some 4070s.

[podkall]

1 hour ago, VibinYo said:

32gb ddr4 

how fast? you can check easily in Task Manager

 

and how's the rest of the system?

 

GPU upgrade might be enough depending what kind of PSU is in there

[VibinYo]

6 hours ago, podkall said:

how fast? you can check easily in Task Manager

 

and how's the rest of the system?

 

GPU upgrade might be enough depending what kind of PSU is in there

600w psu and 3200mhz

[VibinYo]

8 hours ago, Why_Me said:

What's the make, model & age of her psu?

Not sure make but its 600w

[Bagzie]

5 minutes ago, VibinYo said:

Not sure make but its 600w

The difference between a good psu and a rubbish one is a massive chasm.

[podkall]

12 minutes ago, VibinYo said:

600w psu and 3200mhz

if that's 2 sticks fantastic

 

if the RAMs themself are rated 3200Mhz there's chance of small OC, though minimal because you can't know how good the CPU's controller is,

 

you could initially try just some low power GPU that is fine with 600W PSU,

 

if that works out great, if not you could build system later and put the GPU in it,

 

if the PSU doesn't manage to do enough for the GPU you'll probably have enough to buy a better one,

 

so for GPUs that are 600W recommended and don't need more powerful assuming your PSU isn't garbage hopefully, but shouldn't..

 

9 minutes ago, Bagzie said:

The difference between a good psu and a rubbish one is a massive chasm.

that is correct, last resort of identifying PSU could be just taking a picture of it, if there's like a Wattage table or something about the PSU then that can give at least rough idea.

 

Assuming it's a good PSU, up to 7900 GRE and 4070 Ti Super, are available GPUs,

 

and anything slower in 7000 and 40 series.

 

Climbing the relative performance chart,

 

compared to GTX 1660,

 

RTX 4060 is already 186% faster,

 

RX 7600 XT is 191% faster,