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cellieb

cellieb

cellieb

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Hi all. It's been a while!! I want to upgrade my PC for 1440p gaming and beyond. Mainly play fps games including the HORRIBLY optimised Escape from Tarkov. I currently have my old faithful 1080 GPU with 32g old RAM and a Ryzen 7 2700X.

I have a HP 27xq as a main monitor which I am happy to keep short term along with ancillaries but i suspect everything else needs changing. Budget as close to £1000 as possible but I quite like the relative value of the 7800XT GPU coupled with maybe a 7800X3D?

Am I way off?

Thanks.

James
 
You would need to allow a few hundred extra I think.

You’d basically spend your £1k on the CPU, GPU and Mobo.

Do you have a case or any storage to re-use? Would help if you listed out your exact parts now and your absolute max budget.
 
A 7800 XT nitro was going for just under 400 recently or the 7700 XT has been on sale for 300. 7800X3D may drop too with the upcoming release of the 9800X3D.
 
Hi.

£450 7800xt
£350 7800x3d
£100 memory
£150 motherboard
£100 PSU
£50 + case
£30 CPU cooler.
£100 2tb m2

£1350 roughly depending on choices.
 
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I'd like to do it in one go and then forget about it for 5 years like I did last time :D

I have some small SSD and windows but it was a 2nd hand set up so no windows key. I think best to assume I need a complete system. Could stretch to £1,500 if that's where the sensible money is. Is the CPU/GPU pairing logical?
 
cellieb said:
I'd like to do it in one go and then forget about it for 5 years like I did last time :D

I have some small SSD and windows but it was a 2nd hand set up so no windows key. I think best to assume I need a complete system. Could stretch to £1,500 if that's where the sensible money is. Is the CPU/GPU pairing logical?
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Yes the 7800x3d and a 7800xt would be good at 1440p , if you want to use your extra budget then you can get a 7900xt for around £620, that's what I would push to.
 
As a much cheaper alternative you could drop a 5700x3d/5800x3d into your current motherboard which will need the bios updating. Which motherboard do you have? As long as your memory is 3000/3200mhz you are fine with that as well. Spend the rest on a very good gpu. What make and model is your psu and how old is it?
 
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