Upgrading advice

BenWoods

BenWoods

BenWoods

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I built my pc around 2 years ago Parts here:
Antec EarthWatts Gold Pro 650W Power Supply
B450 Tomohawk MSI Motherboard
8192MB ATI Radeon RX 580 Series
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6ghz base clock
1tb Team gate SSD
16GB Ram
NZXT H500 Case

What im looking to upgrade to:
Ryzen 5 5600x
Gtx 3070
Definatley upgrade to 240hz Monitor
Maybye upgrade ram and motherboard
Budget 1200 Pounds.

Just need to know if everythings compatible and if anything will be bottle necked maybye a monitor ugpgrade suggestion if you can :)
 
Your motherboard and RAM are still fine, just need to update your b450 board to support the Ryzen 5000 series which I don't think is out yet. If you do want to upgrade though this could be a good option.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,245.05 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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You can definitely recoup some funds if you sold your b450 Tomahawk, 3600 and ram as a bundle.

If you kept you RAM and motherboard then that would have course give you some money back to get a monitor.
 
It'd probably make a bigger difference in gaming performance to keep your current CPU and get a 3080.

Definitely wouldn't bother with a mobo upgrade as 5000 is supposed to be the last AM4 socket CPUs, so you'd be basically guaranteed to have to replace it next time you upgraded.
 
DeltaJesus said:
It'd probably make a bigger difference in gaming performance to keep your current CPU and get a 3080
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I would agree with this as I have a 3080 running on a B450 tomahawk with a 3600 and it runs great.

If you want to get a 5600X later on then the tomahawk will get support between now and january.
BenWoods said:
Okay thanks lads. One more thing what are we saying to this monitor 280hz sounds a bit weird but it looks pretty legit.
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For a monitor I would go with this unless you only play competitive FPS shooters.
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £361.09 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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Joxeon said:
I would agree with this as I have a 3080 running on a B450 tomahawk with a 3600 and it runs great.

If you want to get a 5600X later on then the tomahawk will get support between now and january.

For a monitor I would go with this unless you only play competitive FPS shooters.
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £361.09 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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Yeah I pretty much only play fps I already have a 144hz very well set on getting a 240hz with this
upgrade

And I think ill just stick with getting a 3070 then and upgrade later down the line after christmas. Thanks.
 
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