What to upgrade first?

linwelin · 3 Sep 2020 at 06:15

I am waiting for either the new 3070-80 or AMD alternative, so not going to be upgrading anytime soon, i am just wondering when I do finally upgrade my system, should I upgrade my GPU first or CPU?

I game at 1440p

linwelin · 3 Sep 2020 at 07:34

Burnt_Custard said:
What specs do you have now? What kind of games?

Specs in signature. I play mostly MMO's currently only WoW but will be playing New World, and ashes of creation, with some COD thrown in I do play a bit of everything now and then when I have the time.

linwelin · 3 Sep 2020 at 08:19

i7-4790K - Asus Z97-K - Vega 56 Pulse - Samsung Evo SSD
16GB Kingston HyperX Fury

linwelin · 3 Sep 2020 at 09:48

I was more leaning toward a completely new build but could only afford to do one thing first new cpu/mobo/ram or a new gpu although i think i read somewhere that Zen4, as well as big navi, is going to be revealed soon.

linwelin · 3 Sep 2020 at 10:46

mickyflinn said:
Its Zen 3

Grab a new gpu first yeah we know it will be bottlenecked some what by your cpu but it will probably be the biggest impact on performance.

The only nagging doubt I have is would a 3080
Work In a n older motherboard as the last bios update for your board was 4 years ago.

This can easily be found out when others do the same.

Iv not noticed any bottlenecking as yet, what do i have to look out for when that happens? is it 100% CPU usage or the other way around?

linwelin · 4 Sep 2020 at 08:08

Thanks for the help