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Looking for tips for an upgrade path

mj2003
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Budget (including currency): £300

Country: England

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Photoshop, Lightroom, and some gaming

as attached in the jpeg are my current specs. Photoshop and lightroom run fine but I edit very high quality images (multi gb's) and my computer really struggles. What would be the next step to upgrading this pc to make it a work horse of a machine. Cheers! 

 

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For photoshop and work? Ryzen 5000 series with more cores, like the 5950 or 5900XT, but those are still pricey and you have a low-end motherboard.

 

For gaming? A Ryzen 5700X3D and a GPU later.

 

Also, you need more SSD storage.

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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£139.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: *MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X 12G GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB Video Card  (£248.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £387.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-09-11 01:20 BST+0100

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For future proofing, would it be worth upgrading my motherboard too? along with the ryzen 5700x3d and 3060 gpu. Lets say I doubled the budget to allow room for these upgrades.

The computer has always struggled with most applications I try to run especially with wanting to run multiple 4k hdr displays (it barely runs 1), for photo editing it is crucial to have good displays. Is it worth considering selling the pc as a whole and investing a like £500 with the proceeds of the sold computer into an overall better computer? (I've felt limited by the mini itx form factor). Thank you for all your help btw. You guys are the goat.

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