Long Overdue Upgrade

[G-Man]

So I haven't upgraded my PC in years other than new SSD's and when my old graphics card died. Was checking out the minimum requirements for Starfield and it seems my PC is now a potato.

Looking for suggestions/sanity check really.

Current spec:
Intel i7-6700k
Asus Z170-A
16GB DDR4 (Corsair Vengenance XMP stuff)
Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB
2 M.2 SSD's (2TB and 512GB Samsungs, the 512 isn't installed atm due to only one M.2 slot)
1 SATA SSD
1 SATA HDD
1 Blu-ray writer
750W Superflower modular PSU


Upgrading the graphics is seriously out of budget atm and my monitor only does 1080p (at 144hz).


Was leaning towards Ryzen 5 7600X with a B650 chipset and 32GB of DDR5 of some sort. Any better suggestions?
Also I understand the Ryzen's don't come with coolers these days, what's a sensible option? Currently have a Be Quiet of some sort (looks similar to the Pure Rock but its from before the Ryzen CPU even existed). Water cooling kinda terrifies me since I leave the PC on 24/7.


Thanks.

 

[Tetras]

I would wait until the game comes out, you might find the 6700K is enough.

Also I understand the Ryzen's don't come with coolers these days

The 7600 includes the wraith stealth (not great), the 7700 includes the wraith prism (better), but the X models don't have one. Peerless assassin is the go-to for a cheaper-end tower cooler.

 

[Gray2233]

I'd definitely wait and see how performance is, I suspect your biggest issue will be with that 5700XT but there's no way to know for sure until the game is actually out.

For a 7600/DDR5/B650 combo you'd be looking at around £400-450, if the GPU does end up being the bigger concern you can pick up a 6800 for around the same sort of money and it would come with a copy of Starfield.

Hang fire until we have some benchmark data.

 

[hdpcgamer]

Depends on the settings, resolution and framerate in which you wish to play the game

I echo what has been said. Wait for the game to come out 1st to see what the performance is like.

Bethesda games are typically CPU heavy so I don't think you'll be hitting high frames with your current CPU and I'd guess you have to lower the settings to low - medium to get reasonable framerates.

Any GPU upgrade will be held back by your CPU and a CPU upgrade won't really do anything if you're already maxing your GPU.

 

[Wing-Man]

the specks. your CPU should out perform the 2600x so should be ok, and your XT is better then the none XT in the minimum specks

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Operating system: Windows 10 21H1
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X / Intel Core i7-6800K
RAM: 16GB
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
Storage: 125GB – although this might not be final