GPU advice needed

[Dethanu]

So currently I have an i5-8400 with a GTX 1050 TI and I was looking at 7800 XT used market here in East Europe and prices for cards are insane. Should I bite the bullet and get a 7800 XT brand new or wait a few months to see how things pan out. Honestly I would pay a lot of money for a gpu since like most adults I won't have that much time for gaming. I recently got a 27"inch monitor at 160hz and dunno what to do in this situation. I'll probably switch to AM5 platform later but dunno what to do now. Any advices?

[leclod]

Where I live it's difficult to find used AMD cards.

While it's easier to find NVidia cards.

I got my 3070 for 230usd.

So my advice, broaden your goal

Edited February 6, 2025 by leclod

[WallacEngineering]

I would wait. If prices are that insane out there then that kind of kills any value a used card can have.

Also, the new generation of AMD cards launches in early March, so that 7800-XT isn't even previous gen yet and that could be why it is priced so high.

[Dethanu]

Was looking at RX 7800 XT's brand new from a well known PC Hardware site and the prices are around between 625$ and 729$

[OddOod]

53 minutes ago, Dethanu said:

27"inch monitor at 160hz

What resolution?
 

53 minutes ago, Dethanu said:

i5-8400 with a GTX 1050 TI

Ooof, that's a creaky old CPU with an old entry level GPU. What PSU do you have? Make, model, and wattage please

[Dethanu]

33 minutes ago, OddOod said:

What resolution?
 

Ooof, that's a creaky old CPU with an old entry level GPU. What PSU do you have? Make, model, and wattage please

 Here are my components

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gnTvqH

[Dethanu]

Any ideas?

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, Dethanu said:

Any ideas?

Well you should only keep the case, the PSU and the cooler, maybe the RAM if you go AM4 on a low budget, the rest isn't worth sh#t really... BTW it's weird you have such good "secondary" parts for such crappy main components !

And what's your use case ? 

 

[Dethanu]

5 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Well you should only keep the case, the PSU and the cooler, maybe the RAM if you go AM4 on a low budget, the rest isn't worth sh#t really... BTW it's weird you have such good "secondary" parts for such crappy main components !

And what's your use case ? 

 

Just gaming here and there. And yeah I know my secondary parts are weird but I had a i5-12400 pc with monitor that I've sold and these are the left over components I had around

[PDifolco]

16 minutes ago, Dethanu said:

Just gaming here and there. And yeah I know my secondary parts are weird but I had a i5-12400 pc with monitor that I've sold and these are the left over components I had around

OK but what kind of gaming ? Things like CS on one hand and CP2077 on the other don't need the same hardware combo

[Dethanu]

30 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

OK but what kind of gaming ? Things like CS on one hand and CP2077 on the other don't need the same hardware combo

 To be honest beside World of Warcraft and Eve Online I don't play that many games. Want to try new stuff like Helldivers 2 or Forza Horizon at some point but beside that I won't know what games would I play in the future but I want a little wiggle room for future proofing a little

[PDifolco]

4 minutes ago, Dethanu said:

 To be honest beside World of Warcraft and Eve Online I don't play that many games. Want to try new stuff like Helldivers 2 or Forza Horizon at some point but beside that I won't know what games would I play in the future but I want a little wiggle room for future proofing a little

OK so maybe you should lean more towards a good GPU, but what's your budget ?

[Dethanu]

7 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

OK so maybe you should lean more towards a good GPU, but what's your budget ?

Around $760. Maybe it's not much for today's gpu prices but that's my limit

[PDifolco]

10 minutes ago, Dethanu said:

Around $760. Maybe it's not much for today's gpu prices but that's my limit

Best I can do with German PCP is around 780EUR (but that's with VAT)

You can't get a great GPU below 500EUR, but then your weak CPU won't keep up, so better upgrade everything

You could try the Arc B580 instead of the 7600XT but I'm not sure it should be recommended as drivers are still quite hit or miss

And if you only have an old 256GB SSD you definitely need a NVMe drive  

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 3.7 GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor  (€153.69 @ Caseking)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 EAGLE ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€139.90 @ Alza)
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€99.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Kingston NV3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€54.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: Acer Nitro OC Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB Video Card  (€332.05 @ Galaxus)
Total: €780.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-02-07 23:33 CET+0100

 

 

[Dethanu]

22 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Best I can do with German PCP is around 780EUR (but that's with VAT)

You can't get a great GPU below 500EUR, but then your weak CPU won't keep up, so better upgrade everything

You could try the Arc B580 instead of the 7600XT but I'm not sure it should be recommended as drivers are still quite hit or miss

And if you only have an old 256GB SSD you definitely need a NVMe drive  

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 3.7 GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor  (€153.69 @ Caseking)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 EAGLE ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€139.90 @ Alza)
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  (€99.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Kingston NV3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€54.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: Acer Nitro OC Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB Video Card  (€332.05 @ Galaxus)
Total: €780.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-02-07 23:33 CET+0100

 

 

 

 

So after some searching i could afford a RTX 4070 Class GPU but i dont know the differences between Super, TI, TI Super and so on or a RX 7700 XT. The difference between them is around 200$ i believe