Looking for upgrade help.

[BatmanSquarepants]

Hi,

I was just wondering what I could do to improve my pc without replacing the motherboard. What graphics card and maybe processor would be the best to max it out?

It's been a while so don't really know what can be installed as it's a few years old now and things have moved on. Looking to play VR games on it, currently using my more powerful Laptop with a 3080 graphics card in but would rather use my pc.

Current specs are -

Gigabyte X470 Aorus Ultra gaming- CF motherboard
Ryzen 7 2700x CPU
32gb Ram
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070ti

Thanks

 

[Rob_B]

It depends in your budget. If you REALLY want to stick with AM4 then you only really have CPU and GPU options (I'm assuming your RAM is at least 3200)

CPU wise just update your BIOS if needed, you can then get upto a 5800X3D installed. 5700X3D is the usual recommendation for price to performance but go for about £200 now. Due to that price an AM5 upgrade might not be as unrealistic as you imagine.

 

[pastymuncher]

Hi and welcome to the forums.

A 5700x3d would be a big gaming upgrade from your 2700x but will require you to update the motherboards bios to the latest version first which is easy enough to do.

What make and model psu do you have?

GPU wise a AMD RX 9060XT 16Gb would be a very nice upgrade or if you must stick to Nvidia a RTX 5060ti 16Gb although you will pay a lot more for it. Don't touch the 8gb versions of either card. GPU's are not cheap now and they are all massively overpriced but other than not buying at all we have to pay for what we want. Not long ago these would have been £200 cards or less but now the cheapest 9060XT 16Gb is £330 and the 5060Ti 16Gb is a ridiculous £390!! The only other option is to go second hand but even on Ebay they are wanting stupid prices for used cards plus you will have no warranty.

 

[Tetras]

If the 5070 Super comes with 18GB, that might be a good option for VR. 1070 Ti is definitely on the underpowered side now.

Anything from the 5000 series with the full cache would be a nice uplift on your 2700X, including the 5700X or 5800X (assuming you want the same core count). The 5700X3D is the best, but they're getting pricey.