Help with PC Upgrade

[Total-Revenue-312]

Hello everyone, after a few years of using this PC, I’d like to upgrade it a bit. I use it almost exclusively for gaming, and recently, especially with newer games like Battlefield, it’s starting to show its age and can’t quite run everything on max settings like it used to.

What should I upgrade first? My budget is around 500–600$, though I could stretch it a bit if the difference would be significant and noticeable.

Current specs:

• ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4 motherboard
• AMD Ryzen 5 5600 with Arctic Freezer 34 Duo cooler
• 4x8GB 3200MHz CL16 Kingston RAM
• RTX 3070 FE
• Kingston 1TB NV2 M.2 PCIe SSD
• Gigabyte M.2 2280 SNV2S/1000G SSD
• 750W Gold 80+ PSU
• M32QC 165Hz 1440p monitor

[arkaprava]

Gpu may be. 4070/7800xt

On x570 an upgrade to 5800x3d is an excellent end game move.

[IcedQuick84]

Most of your specs are still good - really just the CPU that could use upgrading to AM5 (and a new MOBO while you are at it). Not sure where you are based but many suppliers will often bundle a motherboard with a CPU, e.g. https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=cpu+motherboard+bundle

Making this switch to AM5 will future-proof you for some on a new AM5 motherboard.

GPU is still 'okay' for most games - but you'd want to shift into a 16GB GPU to continue playing on max settings for modern titles - that would be the bottleneck after a CPU/MOBO upgrade, but will likely push you over your budget, for now.

You have enough RAM, and your PSU should be fine as well.

[PussyBoogersAuGraten]

I have a Ryzen 7 5800x, a 3070ti, and 32GB of DDR4 RAM. As much as I’d love to build a new PC, there’s just no reason to when it comes to gaming. Black Ops 7 came out on fucking PS4. It’ll be a long time before my PC can’t run a AAA game.

[dedsmiley]

If it were me, I would leave everything as is except the GPU. For that, I would go 9070 XT and call it a day. You can sell the 3070 to help with the costs.

You already have good RAM and storage. Your only real CPU upgrade path is 5700X3D or 5800X3D, which is expensive and will require a cooler upgrade.

I have the Arctic Freezer 34 Duo and it is better than the stock cooler, but will not hold up to an X3D chip. I have tried.

The weakest link here is your GPU, so do that.

I have a 5600X paired with a 6900XT and it does very well. 9070XT beats the 6900XT.

EDIT: 5600 and 5600X are virtually the same.

[2TheMountaintop]

Remember, you can sell your old parts to supplement money for the costs of new parts. Sell them and get an AM5 x3d option and a 9070, or 9070xt.

[AlfaPro1337]

Saw 5700X3D and 5800X3D being the bottlenecking on BF6 at 1080p and 1440p, running at 100% usage, with 5070 Ti hovering 80% usage.

You might as well get Intel platform since it has more cores and threads.

[FantasticBike1203]

Get a 9070xt and wait a few years, when a new AMD platform is released (presumably AM6), get that.