Upgrading a system containing an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G APU

Eoin40

Eoin40

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Hi, Can anyone advise me if I can simply add a dedicated graphics card to my current system?
I currently use an, AMD Ryzen 5 3400G apu (integrated gfx to keep costs down at the time)
with an MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (Socket AM4) ?
Now that I have some extra cash I was thinking of buying a dedicated graphics card, Radeon or Nvidia. Can you just install one and plug the monitor into the new card install drivers etc, and just leave the on-chip gfx as is? Or disable the on chip graphics and install new card as above or am I better thinking about a new CPU too?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Regards.
Eoin.
 
Pretty much. Read your motherboard manual, the integrated graphics may well disable itself once a graphics card is fitted.

But yes, you can do what you want to do. As for a new CPU, that may depend on what resolution you're gaming at and the games you want to play.
 
Thanks for that heatonpkmassive.
I was thinking of an MSI GeForce RTX 2060 VENTUS XS 6G OC and maybe another 16GB of DDR4? Hoping that would see me through until maybe an x570 board and new cpu in the future.
Any thoughts on that "cunning plan" heatonpkmassive?
;)
 
The 2060 would give you a decent improvement for sure, those two games are quite demanding. But if you're definitely wanting to go for MSFS2020, then look to upgrade to 32BG of RAM next after getting your new GPU.

An important question if you go for the 2060 though is what make and model of power supply do you have?
 
Power supply is a Seasonic Focus PX-550 550W 80+ Platinum Modular Power Supply,
I've got a Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit and was thinking of getting
another 2 sticks of the same (£80 I think)
Thanks for the help and advice. I'm fairly new to this so very much appreciate it.
 
You're good to go on the power supply front, that's a quality unit. That'll power your system with a 2060 just fine.

You could try the memory, maybe purchase the extra 16GB from a place that is very return friendly in case you have issues. People go on about mixing RAM being bad, but generally it's worked fine for me in recent years if I just added the same brand and spec of RAM. Not saying you can't have problems, but I've done it a bit and only ever recall having problems doing that with a potato Cyrix system back in the late 90's.
 
Thanks heatonpkmassive.
I think I'll go for that card and the extra 16GB of ram so. New MB and CPU maybe next year!

Thanks again man!
:)
 
Eoin40 said:
Thanks heatonpkmassive.
I think I'll go for that card and the extra 16GB of ram so. New MB and CPU maybe next year!

Thanks again man!
:)
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The tomahawk max will get ryzen 4000 CPU support so unless you need pcie gen 4 then no real need to upgrade the motherboard especially as ryzen 5000 will be on a new socket with DDR5 which even X570 won't support.
 
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