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I am looking to upgrade my pc and don’t know if I should upgrade my gpu, I’m looking at a rx 7700xt or upgrade my cpu I’m looking at a r7 5700x3d it would be great if someone could help, also if there are better value options, thank you

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Whatts your budget?

 

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Keep the RAM,Case & PSU

 

You would get more performance with 5700x3d and am4 motherboard than putting a 7700xt with your current CPU.

 

You could also go for a intel 12100/12400 cpu motherboard combo if its worth it price to performance wise.

 

Keep the gfx card for now even though vram buffer struggles you will see improvement to fps with the newer cpus

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My budget is $300-400 us, would it be better to go for a ryzen 5 7600 instead

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3 minutes ago, futuristicgorila said:

My budget is $300-400 us, would it be better to go for a ryzen 5 7600 instead

Are you struggling/lacking in performance? In XYZ games?

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10 minutes ago, futuristicgorila said:

My budget is $300-400 us, would it be better to go for a ryzen 5 7600 instead

300-400 to upgrade the platform with ram is doable but tight, the 7600(x) is about as fast as the fastest gaming cpus on AM4 so you would have an upgrade path but your gpu will be holding u back at that point anyway.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GtZQMV

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6dDq7R  <-whereas this saves you money and the performance difference wont be so much either.

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36 minutes ago, Ottoman420 said:

300-400 to upgrade the platform with ram is doable but tight, the 7600(x) is about as fast as the fastest gaming cpus on AM4 so you would have an upgrade path but your gpu will be holding u back at that point anyway.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GtZQMV

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6dDq7R  <-whereas this saves you money and the performance difference wont be so much either.

Worth noting that some games are more CPU bound.

 

But only as much as GPU can be strong, if CPU is really strong but GPU doesn't "demand" as much as the CPU can "provide" then it would leave some performance.

 

On contrary again, it's worth noting, CPU has higher influence when it comes to "smoothness" than GPU does, to a certain degree...

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1 hour ago, futuristicgorila said:

I am looking to upgrade my pc and don’t know if I should upgrade my gpu, I’m looking at a rx 7700xt or upgrade my cpu I’m looking at a r7 5700x3d it would be great if someone could help, also if there are better value options, thank you

my build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JNCcQP

Both.  When can you reasonably add another $300-$400 to your budget for the 2nd half of upgrading?

 

But for which to do first?  Depends on what you play.  For example, I just put a 6900XT into my 9900K/1080Ti machine, and got a 4x boost in Enshroded from 10fps to 40fps on Ultra in the fog areas, due to the over card not handling new engines as well.

 

But if you play CPU heavy games, the 8700 should be replaced.

 

Best case you rebalance the entire machine.  

 

I hear AliExpress has 7500F's for cheap 🙂

 

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On 10/8/2024 at 10:58 PM, futuristicgorila said:

 

For now, just get the best graphics card you can afford. And then go straight to AM5 platform (or whatever platform looks best at the time) after you have saved up some more money.

 

Why the graphics card first? Because your i7 is not too bad and with gaming the bottleneck is usually on the GPU.

 

The only circumstance where change of platform first yields more performance gain, is in very very CPU intensive games and tasks that do not need a strong GPU.

 

There are measures you can take to reduce CPU bottleneck to a certain extent, not limited to cranking up graphics detail, running at higher resolution or resolution scale above 100%

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