need a better CPU and gpu

[nitrosheep]

Budget (including currency): $550 (if i get lucky I can stretch to $600)

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Fortnite, CS2, Marvel Rivals, Minecraft, DaVinci Resolve, Vocaloid 4, Piapro Studio, FL Studio, running Chrome for school and Opera GX for background music simultaneously

Other details Wanna play comp games at constant 180+ fps, need a decent GPU and CPU, was thinking a 12400f and an rx 580, but there's a massive bottleneck there. need a recent GPU from the last 4 years and CPU from the last 2 years, and at least 8gb vram.

 

[Why_Me]

48 minutes ago, nitrosheep said:

Budget (including currency): $550 (if i get lucky I can stretch to $600)

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Fortnite, CS2, Marvel Rivals, Minecraft, DaVinci Resolve, Vocaloid 4, Piapro Studio, FL Studio, running Chrome for school and Opera GX for background music simultaneously

Other details Wanna play comp games at constant 180+ fps, need a decent GPU and CPU, was thinking a 12400f and an rx 580, but there's a massive bottleneck there. need a recent GPU from the last 4 years and CPU from the last 2 years, and at least 8gb vram.

 

Posters are going to need to know your current system specs: board, cpu, cooler, psu (make/model/age), RAM ....

[nitrosheep]

 

1 hour ago, Why_Me said:

Posters are going to need to know your current system specs: board, cpu, cooler, psu (make/model/age), RAM ....

rn, im going with an h610m-g ddr4 mobo from msi, cooler is ID-COOLING SE-214-XT ARGB CPU Cooler 4 Heatpipes CPU Air Cooler ARGB, psu is msi mag a600dn w 16gb 3200 ddr4 ram. might go with an rx 5700

[Somerandomtechyboi]

54 minutes ago, nitrosheep said:

 

rn, im going with an h610m-g ddr4 mobo from msi, cooler is ID-COOLING SE-214-XT ARGB CPU Cooler 4 Heatpipes CPU Air Cooler ARGB, psu is msi mag a600dn w 16gb 3200 ddr4 ram. might go with an rx 5700

all new or mix of used and new? doesnt sound very good considering the gpu and youd expect more like a 6800 at this budget with used ryzen (5600x) and some more used parts (case psu board etc.)

[SorryBella]

6 hours ago, nitrosheep said:

need a recent GPU from the last 4 years and CPU from the last 2 years

6 hours ago, nitrosheep said:

was thinking a 12400f and an rx 580

Even your picks doesnt fit your criteria. For the record, we're in 13th of March 2025.

 

So im just going to imply you would shop anything. This is my mixed new and used with the US ebay and Jawa as a reflection.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($80.00) 
Motherboard: ASRock B450M PRO4 R2.0 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($79.98 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Silicon Power GAMING 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($42.97 @ Newegg Sellers) 
Storage: Silicon Power A60 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($51.97 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: ASRock Challenger D Radeon RX 6600 8 GB Video Card  ($209.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Zalman S2 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($48.90 @ Newegg Sellers) 
Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  ($64.98 @ Amazon) 
Total: $578.79
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-03-13 01:38 EDT-0400

 

Cross shop your GPU budget by this hierarchy. If you can find a 5600 bundled with a motherboard locally for 125 or lower, you go and pounce on it.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html