Upgrades?

Infotech81

Infotech81

Infotech81

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Hi all,

I have a build I built a few years back, I never did overclock it... but I was wondering what would be best spent money to upgrade my pc... From what I have read the RAM is still pretty solid, my first guess would be GPU, if that being the case, what could I replace it with without it essentially being a waist of money/bottlenecking? I probably can only afford to do one component at this stage.

Many thanks

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Hi,

I'm gaming at 1920 x 1080 on a 280hz monitor, its pretty good all in all, although I don't get the fps I used to on higher end games like MW3 etc. (i do knock a lot the graphics back to semi performance though to get as many fps as possible.)

I guess budget would be around £300ish mark.. which was why I kind of assumed just the one component upgrade would be applicable. Please enlighten me though if I'm off the mark.

Thanks
 
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Yeah that was my thinking, effectively just squeezing that last bit of performance out of the build before a major rehaul is required.

Any thought on worth while upgrade? Without wasted power either through resolution requirements or bottleneck?
 
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Infotech81 said:
Hi,

I'm gaming at 1920 x 1080 on a 280hz monitor, its pretty good all in all, although I don't get the fps I used to on higher end games like MW3 etc. (i do knock a lot the graphics back to semi performance though to get as many fps as possible.)

I guess budget would be around £300ish mark.. which was why I kind of assumed just the one component upgrade would be applicable. Please enlighten me though if I'm off the mark.

Thanks
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£300 on a GPU for example won't give you a big enough performance increase I would personally be looking at a 7800xt £450 or 4070 which will double the performance over you 2060 depending on game.

You could achieve this if you sell your 2060 also or keep saving .

If you wishh to wait then I would check to see how much Ch system memory your using while gaming and maybe upgrade to 32gb.
 
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Any thought on worth while upgrade?
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6750 XT is the best I'm aware of for £300, TPU's GPU database says that it is 46% faster which is lower than I'd normally want to recommend. RX 6800 is 71% and is around £350, which is definitely nicer.

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Without wasted power either through resolution requirements or bottleneck?
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If I'm honest, I'm not keen on you using lower graphics settings and playing at 1080p, because it gives me less confidence in how much benefit you'll get.
 
Both fair points to you gents, to be honest I do and have always gamed on 1080 and will continue to as I find it ample screen size at my desk position, anything more is just too much screen real-estate for most fast paced games, for my eyes to keep up with anyway..

The lower settings if my memory serves has given me anywhere from 15-20 fps, dependent on game and options of course, that said I don't play it so its horrendous to look at, just distance rendering and knock back some key elements that make the game actually easier to look at and/or run faster. When you factor in game modes like Warzone that is anyway.

The "7800xt £450 or 4070" is this not potentially overkill, or more to the point would this not bottleneck at cpu? only an assumption on my part...

The "6750 XT is the best I'm aware of for £300, TPU's GPU database says that it is 46% faster which is lower than I'd normally want to recommend. RX 6800 is 71% and is around £350, which is definitely nicer." definitely seems more achievable in terms of money, though any further performance gain would be welcomed over that, I guess its just a problem of budget.. as mentioned though I could sell my current one to help with funds.

The RAM is actually a good suggestion and I think my brother has a pair of the same RAM I have as listed, except its 32gbb, so I'll will probably do that regardless.

Any suggestions on a potentially easy OC on the CPU, I seem to recall when I bought it, again I cant quite remember but I think people where just unlocking the multiplier.... honestly not sure about this though, or whether that version may have already had the multiplier unlocked already - again it was number of years ago and rather than research, the first thing I did was come on here to chat about it.
 
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As a side note, my monitor is native G-Sync so presumably a Nvidia card would marry up best...

Maybe something of a similar variant and price range to the RX6800 by Nvidia?
 
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Theres nothing that beats 6750xt at £300 and if you go Nvidia your looking at 4060 for around £260 wouldn't even consider this or the 4060ti £350 .

As for the 7800xt or 4070 at £450 it would definitely give you more FPS and the ability to upgrade you monitor to 1440p while giving high FPS.

There so many options including the 6800 it's where you feell comfortable at in terms of money but if your in no rush keep saving and don't forget selling that 2060 will help towards whichever.
 
Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3600MHz CL18 AMD Ryzen iCUE Compatible Computer Memory - Black - this is what he has, not sure it will be any better spec wise than what I have but it will be another 16gb if my comp does actually push at times to use anything over 16gb....


Sorry just seen post's above, I'll take a read and repost.
 
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is this not potentially overkill, or more to the point would this not bottleneck at cpu? only an assumption on my part...
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The reason that you're getting steered towards a card like the 7800 XT or 4070/4070 Super is because we're trying to recommend a decent uplift from your 2060 Super. Graphics cards are so expensive nowadays that if you're going to do it, I'd really want something better than a mild upgrade.

Unfortunately in the lower-end/midrange, the progress in the last few years has been really slow and your 2060 Super is competitive with cards recommended for 1080p today (e.g. RX 6600, RTX 3060).

Infotech81 said:
As a side note, my monitor is native G-Sync so presumably a Nvidia card would marry up best...

Maybe something of a similar variant and price range to the RX6800 by Nvidia?
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Unfortunately nvidia really have nothing between the RTX 4060 and the 4070 non-Super, at least that we'd like to recommend. The 4060 Ti reviewed badly because it was barely any faster than the 3060 Ti and the 8GB of memory for over £300 is hard to justify in 2024. The 16GB version is a nicer card, but too expensive for the performance (e.g. if you can get a 7800 XT for near or less than £400, it is a much stronger card from a higher tier).
 
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Thanks guys, I'm thinking the performance gain, being around 50% for RX 6800 at around the price mark I want, is probably worth it for now without forcing myself to dish out on other upgrades, I would lose the use of g-sync but don't see this being the end of the world, performance gain would be much more valid.

Plus with the sale of my current gpu, not a bad price overall..
 
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Thanks guys, I'm thinking the performance gain, being around 50% for RX 6800 at around the price mark I want, is probably worth it for now without forcing myself to dish out on other upgrades, I would lose the use of g-sync but don't see this being the end of the world, performance gain would be much more valid.

Plus with the sale of my current gpu, not a bad price overall..
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If it was my money, I'd get the RX 6800 too.

The 6750 XT is a nice card if it HAD to be £300, but the 6800 non-XT is a really good card and should have the grunt for another 3-5 years before you do a platform upgrade. It also has 16 lanes (as does the 6750 XT) which will help counter the small performance loss from using a PCI-E 4.0 card with a PCI-E 3.0 CPU.

Another option is to get a 7700 XT (it has similar performance, though 4GB less VRAM), they've definitely been available around that price lately (even for £300 for awhile there).

This uses a 10700K, which might make it interesting for you (I'd never trust these kind of videos completely, but taken together with reviews and other videos I think they're fine):

(I think the resolution used on each game is 1440p, which would make the gains bigger than you'll see)

 
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