do i need an upgrade?

[doggystyle]

Hi all.

Thinking about a small upgrade.
At the moment I have an i5 2500k, 8gb mushkin radioactive ram, Gigabyte dh3 mobo and a XFX r9 380x graphics card.

I'm happy with my case, monitor SSD and mouse etc.

If I'm honest I play maybe 1 game a year but I like the game to play smooth and look good.

I just bought Doom eternal and it plays well and looks good however the odd game can get a bit choppy.

With my rig could I get a decent upgrade with just a graphics card or would I be better with a new cpu etc?

I had a budget of about £500.

I'm 50 btw.

Cheers.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Hi all.

Thinking about a small upgrade.
At the moment I have an i5 2500k, 8gb mushkin radioactive ram, Gigabyte dh3 mobo and a XFX r9 380x graphics card.

I'm happy with my case, monitor SSD and mouse etc.

If I'm honest I play maybe 1 game a year but I like the game to play smooth and look good.

I just bought Doom eternal and it plays well and looks good however the odd game can get a bit choppy.

With my rig could I get a decent upgrade with just a graphics card or would I be better with a new cpu etc?

I had a budget of about £500.

I'm 50 btw.

Cheers.

would be a nice step up. still 4 cores but 8 threads vs the 4 threads you have now and stronger IPC performance. can always slap in 6/8 core in a few years time etc


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 3100 Quad Core 3.9GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £99.95
• 1 x Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE (AMD AM4) B550 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan TUF Gaming Alliance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C19 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Blac= £79.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £239.99

Total: £540.42 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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savig £5 in stock with b450 board and in stock. Dont be foooled by the pricing, this boaard was being sold at £82 for months until a few weeks ago with b550 being slightly higher in pricing
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-b450m-mortar-max-socket-am4-ddr4-matx-motherboard-mb-348-ms.html

other option you've got, sourcing i7 either 2nd/3rd gen intel, getting another 8GB and GPU above . But your mobo isn't the overclocking version which you'd iideal want to push the core to get more performance from it

ideally though, if your getting frame rates of 60 and aboove... its the monitor that makes a good deal...

https://www.overclock3d.net/reviews...performance_analysis_and_optimisation_guide/3

144hz 1080p Sync tech woould smooth out gameplay. with GPU


guessing you'lll be doing 50 fps?

https://www.overclock3d.net/reviews...performance_analysis_and_optimisation_guide/7

 

[Joxeon]

I'd just go with a Gpu first and see how you get on before splashing out on a new system, maybe try overclocking the 2500k unless you have already.