Upgrading son's gaming rig

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Hi all,

I'm hoping you can give me some advice on what's best for him to upgrade on his 4 year old pre-built. He is mostly into gaming (COD, etc) at 1080p. Current specs: Ryzen 5 3600, 16gb DDR4, GTX 1660 S, PSU 500W, micro ATX MB. I'm a little concerned about the PSU so might need to upgrade that if necessary.

Budget around £800-£900


Cheers!
 
Hi and welcome.

What monitor does he have as it may be pointless if it's a low refresh rate monitor without upgrading that?

There are lots of options I think would could squeeze a 1440p monitor in there also.
Thank you.

He currently has this: BenQ MOBIUZ EX2710 27" 1920x1080 IPS FHD HDR 144Hz 1ms FreeSync LED Backlit Gaming Monitor.
Not really looking to change it now but perhaps in a year or so.

I was thinking about just upgrading the CPU to a Ryzen 7 5800X3D (which is what I did on my own PC) and then getting a new GPU but I couldn't find the X3D for a decent price anywhere now.
 
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What make and model is that 500w psu?

Don't bother with a 5800x3d, the smart money is on the 5700x3d which is much more reasonably priced.
It's just a generic unbranded Chinese thing.

I also just noticed his games are on an HDD whereas windows is on SSD so explains why they're so slow to load up lol! So I guess we need to add on an M2 drive as well?
 
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