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flairclapper
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Your current build is bottleneck heaven. Upgrade the CPU to a Ryzen 5.

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CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X Motherboard: MSI B450-A Pro Max RAM: 32GB I forget GPU: MSI Vega 56 Storage: 256GB NVMe boot, 512GB Samsung 850 Pro, 1TB WD Blue SSD, 1TB WD Blue HDD PSU: Inwin P85 850w Case: Fractal Design Define C Cooling: Stock for CPU, be quiet! case fans, Morpheus Vega w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 2 for GPU Monitor: 3x Thinkvision P24Q on a Steelcase Eyesite triple monitor stand Mouse: Logitech MX Master 3 Keyboard: Focus FK-9000 (heavily modded) Mousepad: Aliexpress cat special Headphones:  Sennheiser HD598SE and Sony Linkbuds

 

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This is already stretching your budget:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($149.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($80.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $330.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-31 16:56 EDT-0400

 

If you can stretch your budget a little more, I would recommend swapping the 1600 for the Ryzen 5 2600.

 

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | MOBO: MSI B450 Tomahawk GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT | RAM: GSkill Trident Z DDR4 3600Mhz | PSU: ADATA Core Reactor 850W 80+ Gold | CASE: Fractal Design Meshify C MONITOR: LG 32UL500-W 4K 60Hz, Gigabyte M27Q 1440p 165Hz

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Although I do think you will be fine with your current CPU and GPU. It may bottleneck depending on your use, but if you are just playing at 1080p, you should be fine. I would get new RAM for sure tho. And I am guessing you will need a new motherboard to accomodate the new RAM?

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | MOBO: MSI B450 Tomahawk GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT | RAM: GSkill Trident Z DDR4 3600Mhz | PSU: ADATA Core Reactor 850W 80+ Gold | CASE: Fractal Design Meshify C MONITOR: LG 32UL500-W 4K 60Hz, Gigabyte M27Q 1440p 165Hz

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1 hour ago, emosun said:

wish i could determine a bottleneck without knowing what program i was running or what any of the usage was , heck of a skill you got there. /s

Fify ;)

 

No, but seriously, if he's gaming on a system like that, his CPU will be pinned at 100% most if not all the time and his GPU won't be reaching its full potential.

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CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X Motherboard: MSI B450-A Pro Max RAM: 32GB I forget GPU: MSI Vega 56 Storage: 256GB NVMe boot, 512GB Samsung 850 Pro, 1TB WD Blue SSD, 1TB WD Blue HDD PSU: Inwin P85 850w Case: Fractal Design Define C Cooling: Stock for CPU, be quiet! case fans, Morpheus Vega w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 2 for GPU Monitor: 3x Thinkvision P24Q on a Steelcase Eyesite triple monitor stand Mouse: Logitech MX Master 3 Keyboard: Focus FK-9000 (heavily modded) Mousepad: Aliexpress cat special Headphones:  Sennheiser HD598SE and Sony Linkbuds

 

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22 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

if he's gaming on a system like that, his CPU will be pinned at 100%

depending on the game , if we knew what the game was.... honestly for all I know he could be using the machine to watch building security cameras and running cnc machines who knows! lol

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor  ($165.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock - X370 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($49.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($75.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $291.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-31 22:30 EDT-0400

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Heatsink: Gelid Phantom Black GPU: Palit RTX 3060 Ti Dual RAM: Corsair DDR4 2x8GB 3000Mhz mobo: Asus X570-P case: Fractal Design Define C PSU: Superflower Leadex Gold 650W

 

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11 minutes ago, flairclapper said:

My power supply is a thermaltake tr2 600W will I need to upgrade this ? I’m going with the r5 2600 and msi b450 tomahawk board 

As long as it has enough power connectors for everything, then yes, 600W is more than enough.

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On 9/1/2018 at 2:20 AM, flairclapper said:

This is my current pc amd fx 8350 16gb ram gtx 1070

My budget would be around 300 my ram is speed is 667MHz 

 

 

Get a ryzen 5 2600 build fr about $300

Or

Purchase a used Dell optiplex with 3rd/4th gen i7. Pop in extra ram stick ..ND u'll hv a pretty capable gaming system.

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CPU: Intel® Xeon® Processor X5690 OC 4.3GHz

CPU Cooler: Thermalright - Macho HR-02 Rev.A 73.6 CFM CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus - Rampage III Gene Micro ATX LGA1366 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU650 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive 
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon R9 Fury 4GB Video Card 
Case: BitFenix - Phenom M Arctic White MicroATX Mini Tower Case
Power Supply: Super Flower - Leadex Gold 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

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5 hours ago, flairclapper said:

My power supply is a thermaltake tr2 600W will I need to upgrade this ? I’m going with the r5 2600 and msi b450 tomahawk board 

the TR2 is pretty bad quality, replace it with a corsair CX or coolermaster masterwatt.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Heatsink: Gelid Phantom Black GPU: Palit RTX 3060 Ti Dual RAM: Corsair DDR4 2x8GB 3000Mhz mobo: Asus X570-P case: Fractal Design Define C PSU: Superflower Leadex Gold 650W

 

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19 hours ago, flairclapper said:

I got a Corsair cpu “ water cooler” can I reuse that ? 

it'll need the AM4 brackets if you want to use it.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Heatsink: Gelid Phantom Black GPU: Palit RTX 3060 Ti Dual RAM: Corsair DDR4 2x8GB 3000Mhz mobo: Asus X570-P case: Fractal Design Define C PSU: Superflower Leadex Gold 650W

 

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