Too late to upgrade?

[Morplord]

Budget: £600 - 700

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I'd like to play new and upcoming titles like Control, Cyberpunk 2077 and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.

Current Parts:

TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
MSI GeForce GTX 950 Gaming 2048MB GDDR5
Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 (Overclocked)
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply- Black
MSI Z97 PC Mate Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Alpenföhn Brocken ECO CPU Cooler


It would be nice to be able to play newer and upcoming game at 60 fps 1080. I don't need anything insane and if possible I would like to keep using what I can, mostly because it all still works fine. I already have all peripherals and a monitor. I just don't know if it's even possible (or worth it) to upgrade without starting from scratch. I thought about upgrading the graphics card, but I dunno if it would make sense with my CPU being wha it is and vice-versa, the CPU socket is pretty old. Then I would have to upgrade the power supply...I just don't know where to start .



Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

 

[Grimley]

Hello
This is the best I could do, I had to cut a few corners. You'll need to reuse your CPU cooler & hard drive. Sell the rest. Hardware requirements for 2 of those games (Recommended Hardware anyway) are a bit out of reach for that budget, but you could 'upgrade' the CPU & GPU later on.
Make sure your Existing CPU cooler fits in the case I picked.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Phanteks AMP 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £86.99
• 1 x ASUS PRIME B450M-A (Socket AM4) DDR4 MATX Motherboard= £74.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 3300X Quad Core 4.3GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £149.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £79.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 250GB Vulcan SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £38.99
• 1 x Kolink Castle Midi Tower Case - Black= £42.95
• 1 x Alpenfohn AM4 Mounting Kit for Brocken Coolers= £2.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini-ITX OC 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £239.99

Total: £728.58 (includes shipping: £11.70)
​

 

[Morplord]

Hello
This is the best I could do, I had to cut a few corners. You'll need to reuse your CPU cooler & hard drive. Sell the rest. Hardware requirements for 2 of those games (Recommended Hardware anyway) are a bit out of reach for that budget, but you could 'upgrade' the CPU & GPU later on.
Make sure your Existing CPU cooler fits in the case I picked.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Phanteks AMP 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £86.99
• 1 x ASUS PRIME B450M-A (Socket AM4) DDR4 MATX Motherboard= £74.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 3300X Quad Core 4.3GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £149.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £79.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 250GB Vulcan SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £38.99
• 1 x Kolink Castle Midi Tower Case - Black= £42.95
• 1 x Alpenfohn AM4 Mounting Kit for Brocken Coolers= £2.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini-ITX OC 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £239.99

Total: £728.58 (includes shipping: £11.70)
​

That's pretty cool! Thank you!

 

[Charlatan]

That's pretty cool! Thank you!

That's a good solid build from Grimley. If you shop around, you'll find the Ryzen 5 3600 for about a fiver more. I'd also swap that motherboard for the Asrock Pro 4 if you can find one in stock elsewhere.

 

[bagel]

+1 on solid build but I would maybe build in your current case instead and upgrade the 3300x to a 3600, or the 1660S to a 5600XT. PSU is a bit expensive too but not much choice atm with so many out of stock

 

[Morplord]

That's great, thank you