Upgrade advice PLEASE

chris draper · 20 Sep 2025 at 13:57

I had originally thought I would do a simple upgrade from my 2080S to something with 16GB of VRAM so I can play MSFS24 at a relatively decent FPS. Its now evolved into a total rebuild. My current setup is Ryzen 7 3700 : 2080S 8GB : B450-F and 32 GB ram at 3600MHZ. For £1000 I will get a Ryzen 5 9600X : RX 9070 16GB : B850 gaming X : 32 GB DDR5 6000MHZ RAM an Artic Freezer and maybe a new case. I think I can sell the old parts for around £350 and £400 on ebay. So a real cost of £600 ish.

Does this look like a balanced system ?? I dont really know if Im spending wisely !

Cheers

mickyflinn · 20 Sep 2025 at 14:10

Alternatively is to get a 5700x3d and a 9070xt which the latter is going for £580 .

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2080s will pay for the CPU and then your just buying a new GPU but could drop down to the 9070 if you wish.

As for AM5 build it's a decent set up if you want to do that and the parts are fine.

Tetras · 20 Sep 2025 at 15:12

chris draper said:
Does this look like a balanced system ?? I dont really know if Im spending wisely !

Nothing wrong with your choices, but I'd try to get an upgrade on the memory, just because that's what you already have. I also thought that the X3D CPUs are particularly good for flight sim? But, I don't know exactly how the 9600X would compare to a 7600X3D in this game, or how to find benchmarks for it.

Edit: THG had benchmarks for this, the 7600X3D was ~15% faster than the 9600X in Flight Sim.

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D Six Core 4.70GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-04829) = £280.00
1 x MSI PRO B850-S WIFI6E (AMD AM5) B850 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-05942) = £139.99
1 x Crucial Pro 48GB (2x24GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C46 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-CRU-01086) = £99.95
1 x (unchanged) PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 Reaper 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-PWC-04020) = £488.98
1 x (unchanged) Arctic Freezer 36 120m Black CPU Cooler - 2x 120mm (SKU: COO-ARC-02420) = £29.99

Total: £1,046.90 (includes delivery: £7.99)

Moeks · 29 Sep 2025 at 17:37

Tetras said:
Nothing wrong with your choices, but I'd try to get an upgrade on the memory, just because that's what you already have.

I might disagree with you on that point a bit there, if you need mroe than 32GB of ram then yes, more is more and if you need more ...more is better

...but for performance I wouldn't really recommend those Crucial sticks, the Micron memory they use isn't great for performance and honestly running at 5600Mhz, which is all you're likely to get our of Micron anyway I would say, you're not really getting what you can out of the Ryzen platform, ideally you want to hit 6000Mhz but there is no need and no real benefit to going higher than that due to the limitations of the Ryzen memory controller and ratios involved. I would recommend anything with Hynix A die memory, so the best way to find this is to filter for anything that's 6000Mhz and has a CAS latency of 30, that'll be Hynix, most likely A die these days, this will more likely run at a nice easy EXPO speed of 6000Mhz with tight timings on an AM5 platform and offer better performance.