Looking to upgrade

[LCB Raven]

Budget (including currency): I plan to do this in stages but probably $1500.00

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming , New World Dune Awakening , 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

I have an MSI B650 PRO -P- Wifi
An AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8 core
32 gigs of Kingston KF552C70 DDR5-4800
an MSI M371 1 tb SSD
an RTX 4070 
750 gold power supply. I think it is a kratos brand. I can find the exact model if that is needed I will get.
Currently I have a lot of lag and desync.
I built this two years ago and it worked great ( Well my brother did most of it.)until recently. All drivers are up to date. 

Chat gpt recommends I get 32 gigs of 6000 32 ram, a 1000 watt gold power supply and a 5090 to upgrade my performance issues. That seems a little over kill. I as thinking most of these components were good for two more years. I am here asking should I upgrade and if you agree?
Thank you.

 

[Why_Me]

22 minutes ago, LCB Raven said:

Budget (including currency): I plan to do this in stages but probably $1500.00

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming , New World Dune Awakening , 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

I have an MSI B650 PRO -P- Wifi
An AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8 core
32 gigs of Kingston KF552C70 DDR5-4800
an MSI M371 1 tb SSD
an RTX 4070 
750 gold power supply. I think it is a kratos brand. I can find the exact model if that is needed I will get.
Currently I have a lot of lag and desync.
I built this two years ago and it worked great ( Well my brother did most of it.)until recently. All drivers are up to date. 

Chat gpt recommends I get 32 gigs of 6000 32 ram, a 1000 watt gold power supply and a 5090 to upgrade my performance issues. That seems a little over kill. I as thinking most of these components were good for two more years. I am here asking should I upgrade and if you agree?
Thank you.

 

What's your monitor resolution?

[LCB Raven]

1960X1080. Sorry I guess I should have included that. 240 refresh rate.

[Why_Me]

46 minutes ago, LCB Raven said:

1960X1080. Sorry I guess I should have included that. 240 refresh rate.

I've never heard of Kratos but this psu gives you ATX 3.1 while allowing for future gpu upgrades. I wouldn't bother upgrading your gpu for now seeing how the prices of video cards is insane atm. If you already have a decent aftermarket cpu cooler then disregard this one.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU Cooler: *ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: *Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: *MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $219.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-03-24 08:02 EDT-0400

 

https://www.msi.com/Power-Supply/MAG-A850GL-PCIE5

[Why_Me]

Optional ARGB cooler if that's your thing.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU Cooler: *ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE ARGB 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($39.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $39.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-03-24 08:07 EDT-0400 

 

Review of your current psu.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies/gamdias-kratos-m1-750w-psu-review

[LCB Raven]

3 hours ago, Why_Me said:

I've never heard of Kratos but this psu gives you ATX 3.1 while allowing for future gpu upgrades. I wouldn't bother upgrading your gpu for now seeing how the prices of video cards is insane atm. If you already have a decent aftermarket cpu cooler then disregard this one.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU Cooler: *ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: *Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: *MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $219.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-03-24 08:02 EDT-0400

 

https://www.msi.com/Power-Supply/MAG-A850GL-PCIE5

Alright so the cooler I have is Thermalright Peerless. The enermax AIO we put on when we built initially recently failed. I like the peerless. I can see the fans running.  CPU temps do go up to 80 Celsius but go back down quickly. 

So you agree the ram and the power supply are probably my bottle necks? Thanks for the recommendation. I will look at that. Mightdo the ram this week.. 

[Why_Me]

2 minutes ago, LCB Raven said:

Alright so the cooler I have is Thermalright Peerless. The enermax AIO we put on when we built initially recently failed. I like the peerless. I can see the fans running.  CPU temps do go up to 80 Celsius but go back down quickly. 

So you agree the ram and the power supply are probably my bottle necks? Thanks for the recommendation. I will look at that. Mightdo the ram this week.. 

RAM and I would change out that psu. Other than that you're gold.

[LCB Raven]

So I am just trying to figure out what the difference is between the Ram I have and what is being suggested. I have Kingston KF552C40 DDR54800 16GB x2.

The suggested is Patriot Viper Venom 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000 (PC5 48000) Desktop Memory Model PVV532G600C30K

 

Everything I read makes them sound very similar.

 

I understand the power supply.

[Why_Me]

5 hours ago, LCB Raven said:

So I am just trying to figure out what the difference is between the Ram I have and what is being suggested. I have Kingston KF552C40 DDR54800 16GB x2.

The suggested is Patriot Viper Venom 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000 (PC5 48000) Desktop Memory Model PVV532G600C30K

 

Everything I read makes them sound very similar.

 

I understand the power supply.

That Kingston RAM is dead slow ... like seriously slow. Games benefit from low latency RAM. You want a set of 2x16GB DDR5-6000 CL30 to alleviate that obvious bottleneck.

[LCB Raven]

Okay so it is just a bad brand that makes sense too. That also explains why it was inexpensive. 

[Why_Me]

46 minutes ago, LCB Raven said:

Okay so it is just a bad brand that makes sense too. That also explains why it was inexpensive. 

The brand is fine, it's the speed and latency that sucks.

[LCB Raven]

Well I may have goofed. I order the ram . Two sets of it last week. Today they arrived. I put the sticks in 1 and 2 in slots 2 and 4 and sticks 3 and 4 in slots 1 and 3. Now it won't boot. It powers on. Led lights on everything come on 

Should I just pull the ram back out?

[Why_Me]

7 minutes ago, LCB Raven said:

Well I may have goofed. I order the ram . Two sets of it last week. Today they arrived. I put the sticks in 1 and 2 in slots 2 and 4 and sticks 3 and 4 in slots 1 and 3. Now it won't boot. It powers on. Led lights on everything come on 

Should I just pull the ram back out?

AM5 doesn't work well with four sticks of RAM. You want a single set of RAM such as 2x16GB for example. 

[LCB Raven]

Wait. Seriously? Part of the reason I waited to order was so I could get two sets the same lol. I will pull two sticks out tonight when I get home and see what happens.

[LCB Raven]

So lastnight I let it memory training for an hour after I removed two of the sticks of ram. I got frustrated at that point and turned the power off at the surge protect. I cleared cmos Tonight.  I booked in to the bios. Chose profile one . That was 15 minutes ago. I am starting to think I don't know as much as I thought.  I am beginning to think I should not have under taken this.

[LCB Raven]

So lastnight I let it memory training for an hour after I removed two of the sticks of ram. I got frustrated at that point and turned the power off at the surge protect. I cleared cmos Tonight.  I booted in to the bios. Chose profile one . That was 15 minutes ago. I am starting to think I don't know as much as I thought.  I am beginning to think I should not have under taken this.

[LCB Raven]

Been going for an hour and not booting.

[LCB Raven]