Posted 14 hours ago
PC upgrade advice
Hi,
Current setup is Corsair 4000D airflow / Corsair TX550M / B550M Mortar / Ryzen 5 3600 / RTX3060Ti / 2*8GB Viper 3200mhz / 2*1TB MX500 SSD. After moving setup to living room to play in 4k on my LG C1, been looking at upgrading GPU for a little while, and pulled the trigger on the RX 7900 XTX (with current deal at £770, obviously a lot of money, but felt like better "value" vs Nvidia).
Because of that exciting/stupid purchase, need to upgrade other parts... PSU is the obvious one before I even open the GPU's box. My question is on the rest (and primarily mobo / CPU): would you think I'm ok to keep as is for the time being (unbalanced setup but can get the job done for a while)? Opinions on upgrading CPU only? both mobo and CPUs (get AM5 and upgrade to DDR5 RAM)? switch from SSD to NVME?
I can convince myself to allocate budget to a full upgrade (if so would use all existing parts for a secondary build exclusively for sim racing rig). I built my current setup but really no expert on PC specs/trends, so looking for opinions / recommendations.
Thanks
Current setup is Corsair 4000D airflow / Corsair TX550M / B550M Mortar / Ryzen 5 3600 / RTX3060Ti / 2*8GB Viper 3200mhz / 2*1TB MX500 SSD. After moving setup to living room to play in 4k on my LG C1, been looking at upgrading GPU for a little while, and pulled the trigger on the RX 7900 XTX (with current deal at £770, obviously a lot of money, but felt like better "value" vs Nvidia).
Because of that exciting/stupid purchase, need to upgrade other parts... PSU is the obvious one before I even open the GPU's box. My question is on the rest (and primarily mobo / CPU): would you think I'm ok to keep as is for the time being (unbalanced setup but can get the job done for a while)? Opinions on upgrading CPU only? both mobo and CPUs (get AM5 and upgrade to DDR5 RAM)? switch from SSD to NVME?
I can convince myself to allocate budget to a full upgrade (if so would use all existing parts for a secondary build exclusively for sim racing rig). I built my current setup but really no expert on PC specs/trends, so looking for opinions / recommendations.
Thanks
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sorted byGoing to cost you around £700 for decent parts though, i guess the gpu was an impulsive purchase (edited)
You are practically on the verge of upgrading anyways so why not just stick your new gpu into your current rig, see how it runs then decide if you want to. I did that when I bought my 3070. I had a pretty old i5 and it was ok but in the end I decided to do a full upgrade just because I wanted to but it was in no way bad with what I currently had.
I say do it, then if you still want to upgrade you can, at any pace you want. I'm waiting to see what the next gen cpu's bring at the end of the year before upgrading again.