Upgrade PC or is it pointless?

V93

V93

V93

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My specs currently are

GPU: 9070xt Pulse
CPU: 5700x3d
RAM: 32GB Kingston Fury 3600mt
MOBO: Tomahawk b450 max
Monitor: Dell AW3423DWF

When I purchased my 9070XT I had much less money coming in and wasn't using an UW monitor either. I just wanted to start with that for reference.

I was wondering as someone I know has recently sold their 9070xt for 550 2nd hand and thought if I could get that a 5080 would be 400 ontop now which is more manageable than at the time of buying, the other option would be is it worth keeping the 9070xt and upgrading to am5 and targeting something like this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...7800x3d-msi-b650-32gb-ddr5-pro-amd-05331.html for slightly more money?

Games I play and intend to play would be total war games, space marine 2, battlefield 6, ready or not, monster hunter, enshrouded and with the intention to learn games like DCS and Microsoft flight sim.

How much better would a 5080 be or AM5 than my current setup? I noticed with games like monster hunter ray tracing seems to quite badly impact the 9070xt would a 5080 be able to brute force bad optimisation at 1440p?

Thanks in advance.
 
How much better would a 5080 be or AM5 than my current setup? I noticed with games like monster hunter ray tracing seems to quite badly impact the 9070xt would a 5080 be able to brute force bad optimisation at 1440p?
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If you want to use Ray-tracing, don’t use AMD but even with that, bad optimisation is bad.

I wouldn’t upgrade your current system as AMD still gives great performance for the cost and I’d just tell you not to use RT for now.

If you have to use RT, then sure, upgrade, but you’ve not wasted your money at all and your current system is great.

Consider waiting for the next gen of GPUs if anything.
 
V93 said:
My specs currently are

GPU: 9070xt Pulse
CPU: 5700x3d
RAM: 32GB Kingston Fury 3600mt
MOBO: Tomahawk b450 max
Monitor: Dell AW3423DWF

When I purchased my 9070XT I had much less money coming in and wasn't using an UW monitor either. I just wanted to start with that for reference.

I was wondering as someone I know has recently sold their 9070xt for 550 2nd hand and thought if I could get that a 5080 would be 400 ontop now which is more manageable than at the time of buying, the other option would be is it worth keeping the 9070xt and upgrading to am5 and targeting something like this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...7800x3d-msi-b650-32gb-ddr5-pro-amd-05331.html for slightly more money?

Games I play and intend to play would be total war games, space marine 2, battlefield 6, ready or not, monster hunter, enshrouded and with the intention to learn games like DCS and Microsoft flight sim.

How much better would a 5080 be or AM5 than my current setup? I noticed with games like monster hunter ray tracing seems to quite badly impact the 9070xt would a 5080 be able to brute force bad optimisation at 1440p?

Thanks in advance.
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Funny how the people who list spec and upgrade wish never include the sound system.

Put the money into that.
 
hornetstinger said:
Funny how the people who list spec and upgrade wish never include the sound system.

Put the money into that.
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yeah, or upgrading the monitor to a high refresh high quality OLED.

I've always upgraded my audio with used components, like a Ifi Zen DAC to use with my Sennheiser momentum 2.0 OH or Sony XM5 for a combination or commuting and Zoom meetings.
 
I would stick with your current PC for now unless you are actually feeling a limitation in what you currently do / play.
 
no point upgrading gpu to 5080, if you need more grunt might as well wait for 5080 super and see how that performs or maybe even second hand 4090. You might also get some extra frames from and AM5 9800x3d but not worth it tbh, you will bigger jump with a faster GPU than cpu, but then again a much faster gpu will benefit from a faster cpu like 9800x3d.
 
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