Upgrade suggestions

Jordan Devenney said:
My cuurent setup is:

Ryzen 7 1700
RTX 3070
2x8gb HyperX Fury DDR4 2666MHz

Wondering if CPU would bottleneck and sugesstions for new ram would also help please.
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A new CPU would give you a nice boost especially if your gaming at 1080/1440p

3200~3600 is the speed you should aim for with ram.

Which motherboard do you have?
 
Its still a capable system. You could upgrade now but are you unhappy with current performance and would an upgrade make much difference? IMO because you have a good system I would wait at least until intel release the 12 generation series sometime in Sept or after and see how it reviews. https://youtu.be/zllim2fglJY?t=703
 
ASMB said:
Its still a capable system. You could upgrade now but are you unhappy with current performance and would an upgrade make much difference? IMO because you have a good system I would wait at least until intel release the 12 generation series sometime in Sept or after and see how it reviews. https://youtu.be/zllim2fglJY?t=703
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Always been happy with my current performance but I've upgraded to a rtx 3070 and have seen a big dip in performance so I thought it might be due to slow ram or cpu bottleneck
 
Jordan Devenney said:
I have a msi X470 gaming plus motherboard
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That board now has bios support for 5000 series so you're good to go.

If it's purely for gaming then a 5600X would be a nice upgrade although you could go for a 5800X if you don't want to lose the extra cores.

I'd stick with your current ram and try overclocking it before deciding to buy anything new unless you want to go for 32gbs
 
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Jordan Devenney said:
Always been happy with my current performance but I've upgraded to a rtx 3070 and have seen a big dip in performance so I thought it might be due to slow ram or cpu bottleneck
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The 1700 will provide a slight bottleneck for the 3070 in games that want fast cpu cores rather than more cores at 1080p. If you game at 1440p or 4k the gpu will be less bottlenecked by the 1700. The average one percent low on the 1700 is still good so you should still be getting smooth game play. You will notice that from the review swapping out the 1700 to a 3600, which will be easy to do, gives less than a 10% increase in 1% lows. If you do want to upgrade you could wait to see if the new intel 11th or 12th generation results in AMD releasing a much cheaper 5600 or buy intel 11th or 12th generation. There might even be an AMD 5700 down the line if AMD feel enough pressure from intel
 
ASMB said:
The 1700 will provide a slight bottleneck for the 3070 in games that want fast cpu cores rather than more cores at 1080p. If you game at 1440p or 4k the gpu will be less bottlenecked by the 1700. The average one percent low on the 1700 is still good so you should still be getting smooth game play. You will notice that from the review swapping out the 1700 to a 3600, which will be easy to do, gives less than a 10% increase in 1% lows. If you do want to upgrade you could wait to see if the new intel 11th or 12th generation results in AMD releasing a much cheaper 5600 or buy intel 11th or 12th generation. There might even be an AMD 5700 down the line if AMD feel enough pressure from intel
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Yea gaming at 1440p and performance is really struggling hoping it's a driver issue and not hardware
 
What gpu did you come from?

Don't be afraid to change game settings. https://youtu.be/A8VrFUi79yo

If you do want to change, come the end of March you can look at reviews to see whether you want to upgrade to AMD 5600x, intel 11th gen, or wait until Sept or so for reviews of Intel 12th gen. which could be a massive improvement. Some of the media hope that a Ryzen 5 5600 will be out at somepoint
 
ASMB said:
What gpu did you come from?

Don't be afraid to change game settings. https://youtu.be/A8VrFUi79yo

If you do want to change, come the end of March you can look at reviews to see whether you want to upgrade to AMD 5600x, intel 11th gen, or wait until Sept or so for reviews of Intel 12th gen. which could be a massive improvement. Some of the media hope that a Ryzen 5 5600 will be out at somepoint
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upgraded from a 1080ti
 
I like videos from this channel, he comes across as down to earth. This shows the kind of upgrade you will get with an intel 10400f as an example. I would wait until the 11th series in March at least, as it will have pcie4 for your gpu. So the 11400f might give a 19% to 25% increase on the 10400f if intel can be believed. The 1080ti was a nice card I can see upgrading for modern games on the 3070, eg ray tracing for those interested

https://youtu.be/PWadkDr9Nqo
 
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