Upgrade Advice

Kyle Barnfield · 27 Mar 2019 at 11:48

When i first built my gaming PC back in 2015 i used all budget parts, the entire PC costing me around £500 and being able to run all games on max with no problem at the time. Since then i have replaced the standard CPU Fan with a closed loop water cooler and upgraded to a bigger case to fit the cooler in.
Thinking its about time to upgrade the other parts, load times for games are massive, i'm getting constant crashes and i cant really run any game on max graphics anymore...

Having trouble choosing parts as my motherboard is an old AM3+ socket board and my CPU only supports DDR3 RAM which seems abit out dated. Worth upgrading motherboard to an AM4 socket and then changing CPU and memory or just upgrading AM3+ parts with what i can find?

Current PC parts:

Case: Corsair Graphite 760T V2 - Arctic White
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P AMD Socket AM3+
CPU: AMD (Piledriver) FX-6300 3.50GHz
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro H100i GTX 240mm
RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600MHz CL9 D
Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Dual-X Boost OC AMD
HDD: 1TB Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 3.5" SATA III H
PSU: 500W - EVGA 80+ White Rated Power Supply

thanks in advance.

Kyle Barnfield · 27 Mar 2019 at 15:21

Thanks

That bundle is awesome! so could i get away with the Motherboard, cpu and psu bundle, the new RAM sticks but stick with my old graphics card? Or would you recommend upgrading the GPU as well, i don't really have a budget limit so if the new GPU would be a big improvement i don't have a problem investing in it..

Kyle Barnfield · 27 Mar 2019 at 16:09

Great thanks. Sorry for noob question but why would i need the SSD ontop if i went with RX 570/580 or GTX 1060? Would my current HDD not do?

Kyle Barnfield · 27 Mar 2019 at 16:16

I have a pretty decent 1920 x 1080 144hz monitor

Will definitely look into an SSD at the very least

Kyle Barnfield · 27 Mar 2019 at 16:51

Thanks guys, will look into the SSD first.

Monitor here, not sure if its G-SYNC or Freesync

So we reckon an RX580 or a Vega 56 would be the best?

Also Danny, i recently upgraded to Windows 10.

Kyle Barnfield · 27 Mar 2019 at 17:03

Thanks guys. So to sum it up. Get an SSD at the very least. If i want to upgrade the lot then get the motherboard, cpu, psu and ram and then the most powerful GPU i can afford. In an ideal world get a monitor which has adaptive sync and then get all of the above with an RX580 or a Vega 56?

cheers