Budget upgrade from Ryzen 5800

neil pettitt · Monday at 22:02

Hi all...it's been along time but I think it's time to upgrade but on a budget. My current pc is Ryzen 5800 . Rtx 4070 ti ...basically I'm thinking keep the GPU and upgrade board chip and ram. Obviously I would have to go to a am 5 board. Do you guys think I would see an improvement if I swapped my CPU . Any ideas and possible CPU,boardand ram recommendations would be most welcome. Ideally my budget would be around £700. - £800

Tetras · Monday at 22:05

What resolution do you play games at?

A related(ish) video you may like:

Craig_d1 · Monday at 23:26

well if you've already got a 4070ti, I'd go with some sort of variant of below

non rgb fan same price but 6000c30 instead

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £499.99
1 x Asrock X870 Pro RS WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-03308) = £220.00
1 x Corsair Vengeance RGB EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-00997) = £89.99

Total: £809.98 (includes delivery: £0.00)

below is interesting as shows how the 9800x3d compares while 4k gaming(using upscaling which a lot of people do while 4k gaming) the 9800x3d can really pull away

and below shows how the 9800x3d compares with the 7800x3d, the 2nd best gaming cpu you can buy

neil pettitt · Tuesday at 17:08

Cheers bud .. I only game at1440 ATM I've got plans to go 4 k. My current CPU is water cooled so will I be able to reuse this witha new CPU?

Tetras · Tuesday at 17:51

neil pettitt said:
My current CPU is water cooled so will I be able to reuse this witha new CPU?

If you go AM5, most likely: yes, but do double check.

Craig_d1 · Tuesday at 18:24

neil pettitt said:
Cheers bud .. I only game at1440 ATM I've got plans to go 4 k. My current CPU is water cooled so will I be able to reuse this witha new CPU?

if it's an aio, then should fit am5 no problem as use same fittings, but best to double check with manufacturer website
If you game at 1440p, then looking at the 4k upscales results will show you how the 9800x3d performs anyway (1st vid)..as 4k upscaling is basically using the 1440 image as base thouigh side by side shows 1080/1440 and 4k(2nd vid)