Upgrade Questions

BeeRad · 13 Nov 2020 at 08:51

Hi OCUK,

With all release of new GPU's and other exciting stuff I was wondering if I needed to upgrade my system in anyway. I'm currently running the below;

MSI B450 Tomahawk Max
Ryzen 5 3600
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16GB 3200Mhz
Gigabyte 1660 Super
Artic Freezer 34 eSports DUO
Samsung EVO 1tb SSD

Thanks in advance

mickyflinn · 13 Nov 2020 at 09:33

Need more info , what are you gaming at or trying to achieve and games you play ?

What psu do you have ?

BeeRad · 13 Nov 2020 at 22:23

Playing mainly Modern warfare and Cold War. Got a Corsair RM750 psu

mickyflinn · 13 Nov 2020 at 22:30

BeeRad said:
Playing mainly Modern warfare and Cold War. Got a Corsair RM750 psu

What Resolution, is your system struggling what fps are you getting ?

BeeRad · 14 Nov 2020 at 12:01

1440p maybe? Just wanted to know if I could get any gains

Mesai · 14 Nov 2020 at 12:19

Graphics card upgrade would net you the biggest gain, especially if you're aiming for 1440p.

Next upgrade would be CPU, and you can either look at the Ryzen 5000 series, which would work in your board (I think MSI are supporting all of their B450 boards), or wait for the next gen/end of 2021. This wouldn't be a relatively small gain compared to the GPU upgrade, given your current system.

Things are chaotic at the moment, so if you're not in a rush then wait until early next year.

Biz.Kid09 · 14 Nov 2020 at 12:42

Hold on for the GTX3050/3060. They should be a real nice upgrade from your 1660 Super. Otherwise you have a pretty solid PC, the 3600 is still a good CPU so no need to upgrade that. I would just get a new graphics card to allow you to go to 1440p.

BeeRad · 14 Nov 2020 at 22:11

Sweet I’ll keep an eye out, thanks for your help!

Mesai · 14 Nov 2020 at 22:25

3060ti is supposed to launch on the 16th, or at least that’s the rumour.

BeeRad · 15 Nov 2020 at 00:01

Going to be look gold dust to begin with by the looks of things, would it be worth holding out for AMD’s new cards?

SkyTerran · 15 Nov 2020 at 04:41

BeeRad said:
Going to be look gold dust to begin with by the looks of things, would it be worth holding out for AMD’s new cards?

Only way to know is to wait for the reviews and the availability of the new AMD cards. So far it looks like nVidia still has an advantage in ray tracing, while AMD has better price/performance ratio for regular rasterization games.