Upgrade advice for low spec gaming, upgrading from a 1050 ti with £300 budget

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I’m looking at upgrading for some low spec gaming 1080p / 720p and I’ve been ok up until now but games like cyberpunk have made me think it’s time for a bit of an upgrade. I’ve got a very small budget of £300. I’ve currently got

  • gigabyte ga-z68x-ud5-b3 motherboard
  • GPU is a 1050ti
  • 16gb of gskil ddr3 – 1866
  • Intel i5 – 3470 3.5ghz
I have been looking at GPU’s and for the money a Radeon rx 580 seems like a good upgrade for the money around £100 ish on eBay. I’m basing that purely on benchmark comparisons online. And my 1050 TI seems to sell for around the same so I would basically get my money back.

When it comes to the CPU and RAM I’m a bit lost, don’t really know what I should be looking for, or if I even need to upgrade them. Tried to compare cpu performance online, but it became apparent very quickly that I didn’t have a clue, so I’m posting here in the hope that people who actually know what they are talking can give me some advice.
 
Swapping to an rx 580 for no cost is a great upgrade but what psu do you have as the rx 580 is power hungry. ?

Cpu, motheboard upgrade would go for something like a ryzen 5600, b550 motherboard and 16gb of 3200mhz memory.
 
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AMD

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £304.97 (includes delivery: £0.00)​



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Intel

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £304.97 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

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Both motherboards are on pre-order at OC but are available at other retailers. Both chips come with a stock cooler to save money but a cheap £15ish tower cooler will be much cooler and quieter.
My choice would be the AMD build as its a faster chip and later you could just add as 5800X3D and watch it zoom along in games.

The rx580 will be about 60% faster in games than your 1050ti.
 
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mickyflinn said:
Swapping to an rx 580 for no cost is a great upgrade but what psu do you have as the rx 580 is power hungry. ?

Cpu, motheboard upgrade would go for something like a ryzen 5600, b550 motherboard and 16gb of 3200mhz memory.
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thanks for the reply . the PSU is a corsair hx520w
 
Sell what you have now for ~£150-180 as a full system, then try and stretch to £500-520 for a new full build.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz 6-Core/12-thread Processor
Motherboard: MSI A520M-A PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
Storage: Patriot P310 480 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Case: Deepcool MATREXX 30 MicroATX Mini Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair TX650M 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply

Total: ~£320.

Add in an RX 6600 8GB for a £210 used with a 2-year warranty from the used parts dealers, and you have a good system that will easily do 1080p and 1440p properly.

Case is a bit pants, but it won't matter in performance terms.
 
Journey said:
Sell what you have now for ~£150-180 as a full system, then try and stretch to £500-520 for a new full build.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz 6-Core/12-thread Processor
Motherboard: MSI A520M-A PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
Storage: Patriot P310 480 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Case: Deepcool MATREXX 30 MicroATX Mini Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair TX650M 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply

Total: ~£320.

Add in an RX 6600 8GB for a £210 used with a 2-year warranty from the used parts dealers, and you have a good system that will easily do 1080p and 1440p properly.

Case is a bit pants, but it won't matter in performance terms.
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thanks for all the replies and relay sorry about the late response, Life got in the way , the budget has actually gone up to 500 now and im liking the look of this build and just want to check peoples opinions before i bite the bullet as i relay lack confidence when it comes to modern pc hardware. thanks
 
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