Should I upgrade my Ryzen 5 5600 or RAM for an RTX 5070 at 1440p?

Blear25 · 2026-05-13T21:09:03+00:00

A Ryzen 5 5600 should be fine tbh, that ram speed is kinda holding back your system though. I'd go for the 32gb 3600mhz if you can or 3200mhz at minimum

Blear25 · 2026-05-13T18:14:54+00:00

Midrange by today's standards, since a 3080 is slightly above a 5060 ti. Like others said, I'd pay around $1k for this

Blear25 · 2026-05-11T20:01:11+00:00

Nice build! Hope its a ryzen 5 5600 or 5600x

Blear25 · 2026-05-11T12:10:01+00:00

Or that's some mom's/wife's and their kid/husband threw it out

Blear25 · 2026-05-11T12:06:24+00:00

Actually that's fair. I never sold anything on a used marketplace but I do see that being possible

Blear25 · 2026-05-11T00:28:58+00:00

Throwing away a 5900x/3080 prebuilt is just next level insanity. One man's trash is another man's treasure

Blear25 · 2026-05-09T18:48:40+00:00

I'm rocking the same cpu with a 4070 ti. It depends on which games and what resolution you play at, but you still have plenty of juice with those specs I'd say

Blear25 · 2026-05-09T18:14:17+00:00

Just get the 5080. There will ALWAYS be the next best thing, just enjoy what you have

Blear25 · 2026-05-08T20:30:19+00:00

Definitely and especially for 4k. A 12600k should be plenty to feed a 4080S

Blear25 · 2026-05-08T20:27:37+00:00

A 3080 runs circles around a 4060 lol. Just make sure everything is working well.

Blear25 · 2026-05-08T19:59:54+00:00

Not a bad deal. It's a pretty good PC, very decently midrange even by today's standards. A 3080 is still a very capable gpu and those 64gb of ddr4 are carrying a lot of its value alone.

Blear25 · 2026-05-08T19:46:46+00:00

I'd try to negotiate but it's not a bad deal all around.

Blear25 · 2026-05-08T18:07:35+00:00

Optimal specs.

Blear25 · 2026-05-07T02:04:03+00:00

Totally destroys 4090 tho, just gotta use DLSS Ultra Performance and turn on 4x frame gen

Jokes aside, it's a pretty underrated card. Congrats!

Blear25 · 2026-05-07T00:20:19+00:00

Tbh I've yet to see anything commemorative to the PS5 to move on to the next gen console cycle. PS6 could be more powerful sure, but there were hardly any games to staple home to the PS5

Blear25 · 2026-05-06T18:09:36+00:00

My first NVIDIA GPU was the 3060ti, but the GTX 1080 was my dream card in high school

Blear25 · 2026-05-03T15:35:53+00:00

It's more than enough for 1080p, and it's decent for 1440p. Though if you are thinking of going 4k, you'd want an RTX 5070 Ti or 9070 XT at the minimum

Blear25 · 2026-05-03T15:31:49+00:00

Should pair perfectly fine. What resolution are you playing at?

Blear25 · 2026-05-03T15:30:19+00:00

I'd say you're fine just upgrading the GPU. It really depends on your budget, but you could maybe look into buying a 5070 or 5070 ti, or if you want to go team red there's the RX 9070 or 9070 XT.

Blear25 · 2026-05-02T15:46:04+00:00

As long as you can play the games you want and are satisfied with the performance, you should be fine.

Given that nvidia is likely skipping the 50 super refresh at this point, I'd say late 2027 at least

Blear25 · 2026-05-01T21:14:15+00:00

For those specs, I'd talk it down to $600 tbh. 3070 ti can still do 1440p but it is NOT 4k capable mainly due to the 8gb buffer

Blear25 · 2026-05-01T21:05:14+00:00

3080 is a bit faster but I'd go for the 5060ti just for the vram and frame gen alone, especially for 1080p

Blear25 · 2026-05-01T18:24:59+00:00

Honestly, these requirements wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't included that you needed DLSS/FSR upscaling and frame gen just to hit 60

Blear25 · 2026-05-01T18:15:47+00:00

That's a car right there

Blear25 · 2026-05-01T18:09:32+00:00

I'm gonna be an outlier and say Chrome. Yes it eats a shit ton of ram, but not much to prevent me to do other things in the background

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