Upgrade

[SamyBoy13]

Hi guys I'm looking to upgrade my pc to something newer to play battlefield 6 with better visuals/performance. What are your recommendations I have £300 to spend and I happy to buy used/sell if needed my parts. Let me know what you guys recommend I have been out of pc game for a while
Current set up:

I7 8700k @5ghz 1.32v
Aorus Gaming 7 MOBO z370
Gskill Royal 32GB ram CL16 3200mhz
GTX 1080tiu Aorus
Corsair AX760 PSU

 

[SamyBoy13]

I play on 1440p ultra wide monitor

 

[SamyBoy13]

Playable but with bad drops with ultra/DLSS, while I'd not say you'd need a totally new system you might need a new GPU, low settings, and to aim for smaller maps depending.

It's a much stronger GPU than yours but it's also the same CPU and running higher settings than necessary to get a good experience.

I'd not spend money before testing it out.

Thank you so I guess if I sell my 1080ti for £100 ish on FB market place and invest in a better GPU that should get me going for a while. Would you recommend rtx 4080 or should I spurge more on something else? I dont want to spend more than £400. I was thinking better GPU now and upgrade cpu later down the line even AM4 socket? Many thanks Sammy

 

[SamyBoy13]

Note that this is the 16 GB model; the 8 GB model is much cheaper and to be avoided.



Wait for benchmarks. You may get away with a B580, saving £100 on a 16 GB RX 9060XT (and Intel are running a special offer - free BF6 when you buy a B580).

WOW so INTEL does GPus now, would you recommend anything better Im happy to buy used

 

[SamyBoy13]

I'd look at a 9070 if buying new, at £400 you'd need to stretch by £100 but you might luck out second hand.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 Reaper 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-PWC-04020) = £499.99

Total: £507.98 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

AMD seems to play well with BF6 and tends to have less CPU overheard than Intel to boot, and the game does seem to like a strong CPU. Unfortunately you're not in a position to easily update that part of your system without a full platform update.

You might luck out on a last gen 7900 series card, but their upscaling tech isn't on par as it lacks FSR4 natively.

I'd aim for a 9070 in your position, it should make things play well as long as you don't mind lowering settings as necessary. Save up for at least an entry level AM5 setup down the road, doable for around £400, add another £100 if you aim for an X3D which optimally you should.

Intel does do GPU's but they're very mid-range and often fall behind AMD and Nvidia, they also last I checked require REBAR and I'm not sure if the old Intel gen you're on supports it.

Thank you, Im gonna look 2nd hand for 9070 hopefully can find one for a decent price. Is the fire connector thing a real issue on this or just overblown thing?

 

[SamyBoy13]

Most models use the old connector, but if you find one using the 12VHP you'll be fine, the problems with it tend to only arise when a card is pulling over 450W (it can do up to 600). It's incredibly rare to see problems outside of Nvidia's last two power hungry Halo products in the form of the 4090 and 5090.

Funnily enough, a common way to safeguard against the fire/melting was for people to power limit said cards to 450W and hilariously it resulted in little to no performance loss. Nv creating and pushing the standard given that fact while not power limiting their top tier cards is utterly barmy to me.

The 9070 and 9070XT don't do close to that.

Fair enough so I guess Im gonna need a psu as well later down the line HAHAHA Im gonna need to start saving