Upgrade advise!

AndyG1001

AndyG1001

AndyG1001

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Afternoon all,

Wondered if someone could help, a few years back I bought the below following some advise from this forum and I've been very happy with it!
It is however getting a little slow so was thinking of perhaps upgrading the CPU and maybe the GPU.
I use it for a bit of everything work, COD and SIM racing. It performs well enough but is getting a bit sluggish so wondered if CPU upgrade would be in order and then possibly looking at the GPU or should I just overhaul the whole thing!
The current specs are as follows I wondered what people's recommendations are!

Thanks in advance!

  • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
  • MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX II ATX Motherboard
  • Kingston HyperX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit
  • Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card
  • Kolink Classic Series 600W 80 Plus Bronze Certified Power Supply
  • Kolink Observatory Lite Mesh ATX ARGB Gaming Case - Black
  • WD Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive
  • Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 64MB Cache Hard Drive
 
AndyG1001 said:
It is however getting a little slow so was thinking of perhaps upgrading the CPU and maybe the GPU.
I use it for a bit of everything work, COD and SIM racing. It performs well enough but is getting a bit sluggish
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Can you describe what sluggish means exactly? In what circumstances?
 
If you weant to keep what you have...

See if you can get a 2nd hand 5800x3d cpu...i personally wouldn't pay £300+ for a new one
16gb ram can hamper performance a little ..I'd double it to 32gb..might be easier selling your 16gb and buying a 2x16 kit
Gpu...COD loves AMD gpu's, so something like a 7900GRE would be good
Sim games think prefer nvidia with dlss and frame gen, so a 4070super equivalent to the 7900gre
your mob can take a m.2 ssd...I'd get a 2tb pcie4 for £105/£125...your board will only run it at pcie3 speeds, but ssd are backward compatible and you can take it with you
would need to check whether 600w psu enough for a 7900gre tbh...

other than that am5 has cme down in price a lot and could look at selling existing mobo.cpu.ram etc and putting it towards going am5
 
I've got a 5800X with a B450 tomahawk max, I've thought about getting the 5800X3D from time to time but the price just doesn't seem worth it especially new.

AMD and intel are launching new stuff later this year and I'm probably going to go with that or even pick up a deal on some of the current AM5 stuff price dependant.
 
Must have been some time ago if you were recommended a HDD!

I'd be tempted to stick with AM4 and just pop in a new CPU, M.2 and GPU (+/- new PSU) depending on your use case.
 
Another matching memory kit.

For drop in CPU upgrade you have a world of choice of really fast chips. 5700X, 5700XT, 5700X3D, 5800X, 5800X3D, 5900X, 5900XT and 5950X plus all the non X parts.
 
A number of sims very much like 3D cache, but we'd need to know which you play exactly to be certain. I know that Warzone seems to love it, assuming that's the CoD you play.

Roughly speaking:

5700X3D for £200-220
Upgrade to 32gb of RAM
Replace that PSU, Kolink is not a great company for their entry level supplies and I'd not trust one in my system
Switch the 3060ti out for either a 4070S or 7900GRE

That's about the minimum upgrade I'd bother to make coming from what you have.
 
If you go for a 7900GRE that crappy Kolink has to go. A budget psu is no partner for a power hungry card. With the power slider maxxed out my 7900GRE will boost power draw of the whole system past 550w and that's with a 65w cpu. I have undervolted and power restricted mine now which has tamed the card without neutering it.
 
Gray2233 said:
A number of sims very much like 3D cache, but we'd need to know which you play exactly to be certain. I know that Warzone seems to love it, assuming that's the CoD you play.

Roughly speaking:

5700X3D for £200-220
Upgrade to 32gb of RAM
Replace that PSU, Kolink is not a great company for their entry level supplies and I'd not trust one in my system
Switch the 3060ti out for either a 4070S or 7900GRE

That's about the minimum upgrade I'd bother to make coming from what you have.
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so keep the case and mobo :cry:
Think might as well sell the pc as a going concern and start afresh
 
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