Graphics card upgrade for a tornado R3

[natwool]

Hi,

My son has a Tornado R3 Gaming PC - AMD Ryzen 3, GTX 1650, 512 GB SSD at the moment and really wants to upgrade the graphics card. Please can anyone give me some advise on what graphics card is best any help would be really appreciated he would like this for Christmas and I don’t want to get it wrong

 

[natwool]

Hi,

Firstly welcome to the forum!

I’d say there are a lot of parameters here:

- what’s the specific cpu
- how much ram does it have / speed
- how powerful is the power supply and does it have the pcie plugs

The first two above could bottleneck a powerful graphics card, and the power supply could prevent it from running at all

Also what sort of games does he play and at what resolution?

Stick with Nvidia or would he consider AMD?

Budget?

Hi,

Firstly welcome to the forum!

I’d say there are a lot of parameters here:

- what’s the specific cpu
- how much ram does it have / speed
- how powerful is the power supply and does it have the pcie plugs

The first two above could bottleneck a powerful graphics card, and the power supply could prevent it from running at all

Also what sort of games does he play and at what resolution?

Stick with Nvidia or would he consider AMD?

Budget?

Thank you so much for getting back to me on this,
I’m not sure on all the information you’ve asked so I’ve just taken the specifications from the website I purchased the pc from I hope it helps.

RAM

- 8 GB DDR4 (3200 MHz)
- 64 GB maximum installable RAM

PROCESSOR
AMD Ryzen 3 4100 Processor
- Quad-core
- 3.8 GHz / 4.0 GHz
- 6 MB cache

MOTHERBOARD
ASUS PRIME A520M-K

We are not sure on the power supply or if it has a pcie plug.

He said he dosnt want a AMD & he plays Fortnite and Valarent.

Budget in total for everything I would say around £500 give or take.

Thank you again.