Worth upgrading from a 2200g?

[broona]

My son's currently gaming on the following system :-

AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
Nvidia 1060 6gb
Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4 CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA-AB350-GAMING 3
Team T-Force Dark Pro 16 GB DDR4-3200
Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB
Corsair RM750i
Gamemax F15M
1080P on a 4k Hisense R43B7120 TV

Potentially looking to upgrade the CPU or GPU or both depending on funds, looking at a 3700X or similar, and a 2060 or better GPU

Is it worth upgrading the CPU, or would a GPU upgrade give more gains? Thanks.

 

[broona]

If you update the BIOS that board should take a R5 3600 nicely, if you can find one at a decent price that'd be the first thing to upgrade, the GPU isn't great but prices are all kinds of screwed up right now. MM might have a decent GPU for a decent budget however.

Both upgrades will be bought second hand, the current system is all made that way, just keeping an eye out for non existent bargains!

That first gen Zen CPU is definitely outdated in gaming performance, besides only 4 threads being too little to avoid hiccups from running out of "workers".

Thank you, I'm thinking 8 cores and 16 threads should see him through for a while yet.

 

[broona]

Thanks again for the replies, 2700 or 3600 look to be the sweet spot for an upgrade if I can find one at a decent price.

 

[broona]

I've just agreed to trade my 2200g + £100 for a 3600, seems like a decent deal to me, and hopefully a good upgrade too, thanks again for the replies.

 

[broona]

Cool but make sure you update the motherboard bios or check what version you have to see if supports the 3600. Dont want ro exchange cpu's and then realise yhe bios needs updating.

Thank you for the reminder, I'm going to upgrade the BIOS tomorrow before doing the swap, it looks like my board supports up to a 3950X - https://www.gigabyte.com/Ajax/SupportFunction/Getcpulist?Type=Product&Value=6166

 

[broona]

Just looked at bios and it says about updating to previuos bios first before getting the latest , just check the bios descriptions.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-AB350-Gaming-3-rev-1x/support#support-dl

Thanks again, all sorted now, I was already on F31, so just updated the FW and then installed the latest F51b, all running perfectly with the 2200, so hopefully all good with the 3600 too.