Please help me make a decision, Or maybe I need a reality check.

Benass

Benass

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Hello.
I will try to keep it short.
I have build my last pc in 2020 or something. My tower has 5600x and 3070 FE. It does me well for what i need. I play Games and watch movies and general browse internet. I dont do productivity, i dont even know what that means. But when i watch YouTube i feel productive.

I played Enshroud game over xmas holidays and have to admit my frames start droping to 60-30 Vram on 3070 getting to low for newer games. 3440x1440 monitor doesn't help either. so here lies the problem. Upgrade.

Im on AM4 socket and have limited choice. Should i go 5700x3d and 7900xt or xtx and carry on for next 5 years. Or should i go and build new tower. with 2000-2500 budget. im talking 9800x3d and top AMD card that will be anonced soon.


What would any of you do in my case.
 
I have aida 64 and exta monitor. so i know all my component's usage. my GPU is maxed out 100% and so is my Vram 100%. CPU around 25-35%
 
Im not to fussed about game itself, its more like a wake up call on 8gb Vram. And yes, im waiting for New amd cards reviews to make decision.
 
nade said:
Agree with the comments above. I would look at swapping out the GPU first. Certainly that's what I am waiting to potentially do. I'm still running a very similar spec machine 5600x, 16GB RAM, Zotac 3070 8GB card.

I got my parts around 2020/2021. But because of the mess that was the 30xx launch, I think my GPU was the last item I managed to get in early 2021.

In the past I have usually upgraded my entire PC every 3 years. So been thinking of doing the same this year, but think i'll try and get my hands on a new GPU first and then probably upgrade to AM5.

I had been looking at some of the better AM4 CPUs, but decided I would be better saving my money to upgrade to AM5.
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Im leaning towards same thinking. I got myself used 1080 when i build this pc and later managed to buy 3070FE from nvidia website fighting bots.

I would buy 4080 but don't trust Auction sites and i don't have 1k posts. Not much of a talker. i guess.
 
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