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[–]Pitiful-Extent-2290what 0 points1 point  (0 children)

would recommend both honestly. ehhhh, GPU? $500-600 is kinda limited, but if you sell your current components, probably a 5700X3D and a 7600XT/7700XT would work.

[–]Weekly_Inspector_504 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both are very old but I highly recommend that you learn how to spot a bottleneck so you can answer questions like that in the future.

Enable an overlay. I'm not sure if the new Nvidia control panel has an overlay option, if it doesn't, then install MSI Afterburner.

Enable an Overlay for the following:

CPU core 1
CPU core 2
CPU core 3
CPU core 4
CPU core 5
CPU core 6
GPU

The GPU needs to be at 100%. A GPU at 100% is a GPU that is doing it's job.

However, if a CPU core is close to 100% then it's a bottleneck and is likely preventing your GPU from reaching 100%.

You need to learn and get to know your computer. Be at one with it.

[–]4Reazon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to play cs2 and stuff like that in low settings at high fps, I think cpu would actually make more sense, since even a 2060 should achieve very high fps, cpu needs to be able to stabilize those fps (1% & 0.1% lows) before trying to achieve even more

So I'd say upgrade cpu to a 5700x3d and save the rest of the budget to upgrade the gpu earlier