Graphics card upgrade advice

[Ranger07]

Hi Folks

My son wants to upgrade his OCUK built gaming PC with a faster graphics card. He has around £1k to spend.

The specs are-
OcUK Tech Labs AMD Ryzen Midi Tower Gaming PC
Kolink Modular Power 700W 80 Plus Bronze Modular Power Supply
Kolink Void RGB Midi Tower Case
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor
Palit GeForce GTX 1660 StormX 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Kingston A400 240GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive
Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 64MB Cache Hard Drive
Alpenfohn Brocken ECO Advanced CPU Cooler - 120 mm
ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz

I know the new Nvidia cards are just around the corner so we will wait for that.

Presumably the 4080 will drop in price when the new cards are available ?
We would consider the 5080 if in the ballpark price wise.

Would the PSU need upgraded from 700w ?
Is the motherboard and processor still good enough ? I really don't want to go down the road of changing these as well if it can be helped.

 

[Ranger07]

^^Yeah, and 800 might just be enough to get a 5070Ti. no one is sure yet.

You can pick up a 5700X3D for around the £130 mark, I'd bump up to 32gb of RAM and a 1tb + SSD while you're at it too.

You'd still have a good £800 + to spend on a GPU.

I wouldn't have much faith in that PSU either tbh, but it should be fine for a current/upcoming gen mid range card.

This sounds like a good option, thanks guys!

With my lack of knowledge I would have just let him get a £1k card which sounds like a mistake so glad I asked here first.

 

[Ranger07]

Edit- Found the kit using a configurator

 

[Ranger07]

Toying with this basket, can any of you confirm this would be the best upgrade route-

1 X Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 32GB (2x16GB) 3600MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit (CMW32GX4M2Z3600C18) - £64.99
SKU: MY-4CK-CS

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1 X AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D Eight Core 4.1GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail - £199.99
SKU: PRO-AMD-01799

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1 X Asus ROG Strix 850w Platinum 80 Plus Platinum Power Supply - £179.99
SKU: POW-ASU-03790

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1 X Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Nitro+ Vapor-X 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £679.99
SKU: GX-3A6-SP

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Grand Total: £1,132.96

 

[Ranger07]

Perhaps better advice could be given if we knew what resolution and refresh rate your son plays at. For example, a 7900XT would generally be considered overkill for 1080p 60Hz gaming.

Looking to improve his rig as much as possible, his next upgrade will be a 4k monitor

 

[Ranger07]

Also it might be worth checking what BIOS version that motherboard has. It's got something like 20 updates some with stability improvements etc. Maybe required for the 5700x3D maybe not but its worth checking and looking at what the updates give you.

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Yeah, I’m going to benchmark the system then update the bios and install the new components.

Sounds like it might be better to hold off on the graphics upgrade but I’m going to get the other items ordered and installed.