What can I upgrade? My overclockers pc

jigger said:
If read up on those two technologies mentioned you might understand the topic.

Anyway, an RDNA2 RX 6000 card is the way to go. Ideally with a Ryzen 3000 chip but the 2600 will also work.
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The way to go is an FE card since they are sold at MSRP, like the 3080FE I got £650 and before you say they are hard to get, yes they are but only because people like yourself buy them to scalp for 3x the price.,

jigger said:
Air dropped cards are the best, but also the worst.
Bought an air drop RTX 3080, nearly melted my case, sold for a fortune to some lunatic on a popular auction site that plans to mine on it. Just ordered a 6800XT and 5800X with the money. Thanks Nvidia!
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Joxeon said:
The way to go is an FE card since they are sold at MSRP, like the 3080FE I got £650 and before you say they are hard to get, yes they are but only because people like yourself buy them to scalp for 3x the price.,
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It’s really not for the majority of builds. Ampere produces too much heat and requires a super highend CPU to support it.

AIR drops are almost impossible to buy, but anyway you’re mining on the ones you bought. It’s people like you frantically hunting down also non existent cards at MSRP to mine that are a much bigger issue.
 
jigger said:
It’s really not for the majority of builds. Ampere produces too much heat and requires a super highend CPU to support it.

AIR drops are almost impossible to buy, but anyway you’re mining on the ones you bought. It’s people like you frantically hunting down also non existent cards at MSRP to mine that are a much bigger issue.
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I have one and my lad has one, only one is an FE model though and it's only used for mining when not being used for gaming.
 
Thanks for all advice so far. So far I understand I don't need to replace my CPU and need to replace my GPU in consideration with my current PSU.
 
mdkilinc said:
Thanks for all advice so far. So far I understand I don't need to replace my CPU and need to replace my GPU in consideration with my current PSU.
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You didn't list your current GPU in the thread so it maybe that it's fine, in terms of the CPU a jump to ryzen 5000 at some point would make sense but I'd hang on for a bit as Intel Alderlake CPUs are releasing soon so Zen 3 chips like the 5600X and 5800X maybe seeing big price cuts shortly.

In terms of the PSU again it maybe fine but depends on how powerful a GPU you want, also it would be handy if we know what budget you have for upgrades and also what resolution and refresh rate your monitor is.
 
mdkilinc said:
Roughly 3-4 years ago I bought a full setup and built my first PC from overclockers.
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That all looks pretty decent, though 256 GB is a little on the low side these days. What you need to do is find out where your PC is slowing down. You can do that by running Task Manager on a second monitor and looking at the Performance tab. Look for the GPU going to 100% or any of the CPU cores going to 100%. If you don't have a second monitor, run MSI Afterburner and get it to display those figures while you're gaming,


 
Joxeon said:
You didn't list your current GPU in the thread so it maybe that it's fine, in terms of the CPU a jump to ryzen 5000 at some point would make sense but I'd hang on for a bit as Intel Alderlake CPUs are releasing soon so Zen 3 chips like the 5600X and 5800X maybe seeing big price cuts shortly.

In terms of the PSU again it maybe fine but depends on how powerful a GPU you want, also it would be handy if we know what budget you have for upgrades and also what resolution and refresh rate your monitor is.
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Oh my bad. Didn't notice. My GPU is the MSI Radeon RX 570 8GB
 
My budget for the upgrades is roughly 500-800. Preferably on the lower end but if it makes a huge difference I wouldn't mind going up. Thanks for all info so far. Much appreciated.
 
Quartz said:
That all looks pretty decent, though 256 GB is a little on the low side these days. What you need to do is find out where your PC is slowing down. You can do that by running Task Manager on a second monitor and looking at the Performance tab. Look for the GPU going to 100% or any of the CPU cores going to 100%. If you don't have a second monitor, run MSI Afterburner and get it to display those figures while you're gaming,
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I'll look into it. Thanks
 
Looking at the current prices I would either drop in a RX 6700XT with the Ryzen 2600 or a 3800X and 6600/6600XT. Something like that.
 
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