Upgrade advice

Wreckreation

Wreckreation

Wreckreation

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Hey folks, bought my PC in 2019, modern games starting to show it's age - looking to get a rough idea of what I'd need to upgrade, I'm assuming it'll be a GPU - CPU - PSU maybe MOBO upgrade. Not super sure of when, but I guess I wanted to get an idea of what I would be looking at.

This is my current build:
Seasonic Prime Ultra Snow Silent 650W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply
Lian-Li PC-O11 Dynamic Midi-Tower
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming OC 3X 8192MB GDDR6
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (4x8GB)
Gigabyte 1TB M.2 PCIe x4 NVMe SSD/Solid State Drive
Seagate 2TB BarraCuda 7200RPM 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive
Cryorig H7 Single Tower Heatsink with 120mm Fan
MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQ 27" 2560x1440 IPS 165Hz

I was looking to upgrade my GPU to something like the 5070 or maybe the 5070ti (or equivalent) - what would I need to upgrade around it so there won't be any bottlenecks? I assume I'd need a bigger PSU, and depending on the CPU perhaps a new motherboard as well? Would the ram also need to be upgraded to match a better CPU? I'd like it perform as a modern "mid-range" machine at 1440p and likely (or ideally) won't be upgrading for another 3-4 years.

Just looking to get an idea of which and how many components I'd need, and how much that would cost me to do.


Thanks in advance for any advice, hope I gave enough information.
 
My basket at OcUK:

Total: £917.93 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

This would be the minimum you should be looking at and would save you needing to switch to a newer platform like AM5, the 5700X3D is still a very strong gaming CPU and should see you well until AM6 at this point if mid-range upgrades will be your focus. You could go for a 5070 to be safe and it would run fine on your current PSU, but I'd not recommend buying a 12gb GPU for half a grand at this point, especially not if you intend to keep it for 3-5 years. A middle ground would be a 9070, but I'd personally spend the extra on the 5070ti at its current price point as I prefer DLSS over FSR.

You might get away with the GPU on your current power supply, especially if you undervolt, if not factor in another £70-100 for a decent 750-850W PSU on top.

Keep everything else.
 
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You have plenty of cpu upgrade options luckily
Socket am4 has been/still is
One of the best and longest lasting sockets i
Can remember

Ram will be fine as is
Assuming it's 3600mhz here

A 5070,5070ti,rx9070 ,9070xt may just about work
With a good 650w psu
 
Wreckreation said:
and depending on the CPU perhaps a new motherboard as well? Would the ram also need to be upgraded to match a better CPU? I'd like it perform as a modern "mid-range" machine at 1440p and likely (or ideally) won't be upgrading for another 3-4 years.
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Nah, no point getting a new board and RAM, or you might as well switch platform. 5700X3D/5800X3D and you're good.
 
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