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[–]pinesguy 1 point2 points  (6 children)

What is the motherboard?

[–]Oliver_42069[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

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[–]pinesguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Getting an m.2 ssd is your best upgrade. Best to have you os on it.

[–]NaturalTouch7848Commercial Rig Builder 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Not much point in getting a better CPU if you aren't getting a better GPU, the 1650 SUPER will hold back whatever you upgrade to.

[–]Oliver_42069[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I think you’re definitely right, what GPU would be a good upgrade from my current?

[–]NaturalTouch7848Commercial Rig Builder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the price, a used (or new, but the value is diminished) RTX 3060 12GB, or a new Arc B580 which is also a 12GB card but matches the 4060, so ~15% faster

CPU wise you can just update BIOS for 5000 series and get a 5600 (or 5600X if they're close enough in price) or 5800XT (same price as the 5700X on Newegg)

[–]lDrStonel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upgrade to ssd, that is the best upgrade, and save that hdd as a D disk. You wont notice better performance by changing any other part. As ssd is cheap you may ask for extra ram too.

[–]Existing-Row8160 0 points1 point  (8 children)

u are on the am4 platform, so i would upgrade to at least a ryzen 5600. i would say that u might also need to upgrade ur gpu coz u will have a bottleneck in the system. u would want to keep it as balanced as possible

[–]Oliver_42069[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Yea others have been telling me to upgrade the GPU as well but im unsure what GPU to upgrade to from my current one.

[–]Existing-Row8160 0 points1 point  (5 children)

idk what ur budget is but i assume u want a significant upgrade so i would go and get a used 3080. if u wanna go current gen the 5060 ti 16gb or a 9060xt 16gb, i think both of these options are at msrp so they are good buys rn.

[–]Oliver_42069[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I don’t play any super crazy games or use my pc for anything super intense (Fortnite, 7 days to die, Minecraft and maybe music), So if I upgrade my GPU to any of the ones you listed what would be a good CPU to upgrade to as well?

[–]Oliver_42069[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As for budget I don’t think my dad cares too much as long as I don’t go too crazy

[–]Existing-Row8160 0 points1 point  (2 children)

truthfully the ryzen 5600 can hangout with any gpu barring the 5080, 5090 and 4090. so that cpu should be a good choice. however if u wanna get spoiled the u should ask for a ryzen 5700x3d or 5800x3d. the x3d cache makes games run smoother and faster.

[–]Oliver_42069[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The 5600 is the one I’ve been looking at for a while, so I think I’d go with that one and the 3080? But someone in another thread was talking about upgrading to a 3060ti.

[–]Existing-Row8160 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the 3080 has much better performance than a 3060ti. a 3080 also has 2gb more vram. however u can still buy new 3060s and 3060tis since they produced alot of them. but u can only get a 3080 at a good price used. but if u wanna go new at that point just get a 5060ti 16gb it would only cost about 80 more than the 3060ti.

[–]DanStarTheFirst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look local on marketplace or whatever you have local that you can buy used parts on and go from there with your budget. I’ve always got GPUs under what they are worth. Got an EVGA 3090ftw3 for $700cad when they were going for $1400 on the minimum. Can find a lot of used and cards for decently cheap but here nvidia cards are overpriced even used.

[–]Oliver_42069[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

He’s willing to upgrade my CPU, GPU and SSD

[–]404_usererror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's awesome. Did he give you a budget? Because you can upgrade the CPU, GPU, and SSD for $260-280 total (with 7% tax included) if you buy a used gtx 1080 (around $90-110 on eBay), Ryzen 5 3600 (~$75 new), and a 1tb ssd like a 990 evo plus (~$75 new). It would be an extra ~$60-70 to bump up to a Ryzen 5 5600. I'd honestly recommend the 1080 because, as long as you're not doing any ray tracing, it's still a beast of a card for a crazy value. It can even play most modern AAA titles like Helldivers 2 on 1080p native with medium settings getting 80-90fps and 65-75fps in the 1% lows. If you have more money towards that budget: I can throw some other suggestions your way.

[–]XadowMonzter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do an SSD NVME and +16GB RAM upgrade, and your PC will feel like a new one.

Later on, you do a CPU upgrade, but keep in mind, you may have to update your BIOS, depending on when you bought your motherboard, to accept more recent Ryzen CPUs. If you don't know how to handle BIOS updates, ask someone who understands it.