r/pcupgrade

Hello . Ich have a r5 3600 and a radeon 9060xt 16gb vram and 16 gb ram . I want to upgrade to a r5 5500x3d but ive watched some benchmarks and it looks likes like the r5 5600xt is maybe better for me and i wanted some advice from people that know this kind of stuff better. I play fps shooters like fornite, valorant and so on ,so i want to avoide drops as much as i can . I want to get to 200 fps without alot of drops and just wanted to know if i really need the r5 5500x3d or if the r5 5600xt is maybe the better choice. I want to stay on am4 for as long as possible so the cheape and more future proof the better.

Thank you

I have an old HP ProDesk 400 G1 SFF with these specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 (4 cores / 4 threads, up to 3.6 GHz)
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4600 (integrated)
RAM: 16 GB DDR3
Storage: 1 TB SSD
PSU: 240W
Case: Small Form Factor (SFF)
Is this PC worth upgrading, or should I save for a newer system?
If it’s worth upgrading, what low-profile GPU would you recommend that works with the 240W PSU and SFF case?
My goal is to play games like GTA V, GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, Roblox, Fortnite, Valorant, Counter-Strike 2, The Crew 2, Drift86, eFootball, Happy’s Humble Burger Farm, and other older AAA titles at 1080p with decent settings.
My budget is around €100–200

PC Upgrade

My PC specs

60 hertz monitor

Intel xeon E5-2683

NVIDIA GTX 1660 super

16 gb ram

119gb SSD and 512 gb hardisk

685W power supply

Tower model: precision tower 5810

I want slowly upgrade it with time but idk what should I upgrade now like ik I need a SSD than what do I upgrade and after that lyk

About a year ago, I upgraded from a Ryzen 5 5600x to a Ryzen 7 5700x3d. I got lucky and got one on Alixpress for $125 & actually sold my 5600x for $125. So the upgrade was free.

Wanting to make this pc last as long as possible because not wanting to go AM5 anytime soon.

Now that the 5800x3d has been re-released is it worth upgrading from tge 5700x3d to the 5800x3d. Then selling my 5700x3d.

Currently have an ASROCK B450M Pro4 with Ryzen 7 5700x3d, ASROCK RX7800XT Phantom Gaming 16gig OC, 2x16 3600 Ram, Corsair Cx650M PSU, Thermalright Peerless Assassin, 1tb NVMe as main 2tb 870 Evo as Gaming storage then added 2nd 2tb NVME as more storage for games, movies and torrents.

keep reading about having to speed up my memory through the bios?

I see this computer has the AmD adrenaline app that has different presets for quality and such. Is this .the same thing? or do I need to do the bios thing after a restart

Hello,

I have an acer nitro 5 AN515 55 51QY, i use it to play video games (Gta 5, lol, valorant, counter strike, ksp...), and i want to have more storage because i have to unsinstall one game to install another, and when my friends with 2to are saying "hey let's play valorant" i respond to them "i can't, i unistalled it to download counter strike to play cs 5 minutes with u".

I have a budget of ≈50€, and i need help to choose an ssd.

I have an Intel Core i7-7740X (4 Core // 4.10GHz) paired with 32GB RAM and a 1080ti GPU.

It has somehow performed rather well over the years, played the Dark Souls Trilogy, Deep Rock Galactic, and even low settings VR without much issue, so I haven't truly felt the need to upgrade.

Now, however, I've been wanting to improve my VR experience and play modded Elden Ring, thinking it's time I should finally upgrade.

I've considered the Intel Core i9-7940X, which seems to have a good balance of price and power (14 Core // 3.10GHz) but I wonder if I'm either not going hard enough, overdoing it, or missing something else entirely.

What do you lot think?

I have had my prebuilt pc for a couple months now but I have noticed it stutters in cpu heavy games and multiplayer ones to the point where I don’t want to play them as much anymore.

I currently have an rtx 5060, amd 5500 and 16gb of RAM. The issue I am having is there is sort of microstutters and frame time issues in these games with low gpu usage and also low cpu usage and I have done many troubleshooting solutions to fix this but nothing works so I have come to the point where I’ve decided to get a new cpu

Which fairly priced cpu would be suitable for my rtx 5060 for smooth gameplay and so that it doesn’t bottleneck my gpu (although the gpu is not the greatest itself).

I have been posting here the last months for upgrades and thanks to your help I already have a new GPU and now a new CPU. Unfortunately I learned that learned that new CPU are more dependent on RAM.
I had two different 8gb RAM only one capable of XMP with 3000mhz the other one with 2400mhz.
Now I need your guys help again and want to know which budget ram I should buy.

I can’t find a second Ballistics micron ddr4 3000 anymore in Germany.
So probably a new RAM kit? Two new 8gb should be enough for normal gaming right?

AM: 16GB CPU: AMD Ryzen 5700x, 3400Mhz Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. B450M DS3H-CF
GPU: Radeon 9060xt 16gb

Hey everyone!

Would there be any real significant benefit to upgrading to the 9850x3D chip from a 7900x from a gaming standpoint at 4K? (ie. greater than 10-15% average fps uplift) I do little to no productivity work on this PC and don't run any super highly threaded workflows. At this point should I just wait until zen6?

My specs are as below:

CPU: 7900x

RAM 64 GB 6000 MT

GPU: Stock PNY RTX 4090

Storage: 2TB PCIe gen 4

Недавно решил обновить комп, купил видюху Rx9070xt, так же заменил свой БП 750w на 1000w, чтобы было с запасом на всякий. В моменте понял что вроде графика и фпс стали лучше, но фризы остались, решил выбрать легкий но видимо глупый путь, купил оперативку на 32гб DDR4, вместо моей на 16гб, стало вроде получше, но не везде. В итоге осознал что процессор 12400f не совсем вывозит новую видаху. И вот теперь думаю, стоит ли менять его на 14600k, при условии что придется менять и материнку, так как старая не потянет новый проц (материнка MSI PRO B760M-E DDR4). Просто если брать мать на DDR5 и проц например от AMD, то придется снова брать новую оперативка, которую я недавно по глупости купил.

Вот и вопрос, есть ли вообще смысл брать новую мать и проц 14600

Буду рад любым ответам)

Hello Reddit,

Ive had this PC prebuilt for me 6 years ago with parts chosen by me. Its been serving me well but now its time for an upgrade as its struggling to run newer titles ( Forza Horizon 6 Errors on launch because of GPU)

Specs:

Asus PRIME A320M-K Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6GHz-4.2GHz ( pretty sure it came overclocked )

XFX RX 580 8GB

2x8GB DDR4 3000 Corsair Vengeance LPX

Corsair CV650w 80+ Bronze ATX Power Supply

Monitor iiyama G-MASTER BLACK HAWK 24.5" 1920x1080 75hz

I'm looking into upgrading to RX 9060 XT 16GB but I'm not fully sure about how the rest of the system might bottleneck it. Have a friend with same build that upgraded to the RX 7600 and he is very happy with the upgrade, but I'm looking into a GPU that will be more future proof, RX 9060 XT 16GB, maybe RX 7700 XT 16GB, and if needed I can maybe upgrade my CPU at a later date.

All thoughts and opinions are welcome.

Thanks.

I just dropped the hammer on a 64GB (2x32GB) RAM upgrade for my new 9700x setup, finally realizing RAM isn't getting cheaper and I need the extra for the VMs I want to run.

Newegg is running a July 4 special on a kit of Corsair RGB 2x32 RGB DDR 6000 CL40 for $919, but with a $150 discount bringing the price down to $769 with free shipping.

I'm not too concerned about moving from CL36 to CL40 as I'm not doing any gaming. I'm running several VMs for various personal projects and this should future proof me.

I'm kinda choking on saying $769 is a deal, but I have a feeling if I don't, I'll wish I had.

hi everyone, im thinking about do an upgrade for my pc, for now i have an i5 9400f + gtx 1050ti (the mother is h310m h2.0) and i hope to upgrade the gpu, so idk wich gpu should be fine for this processor, any recomendations?

Looking to upgrade my mobo, would like some overlooking capacity. Would like 2 nvme slots as well. Price really isnt an issue

I'm new to Reddit, and I've posted this in pcbuilding, then in buildapc and now ive found this forum, want people's thoughts. (had asked ChatGPT, but now I don't trust it)

So my current system:

Motherboard: MSI Z170-A Pro

CPU: i7 7700k

GPU: 2080ti

RAM: 4x8GB of 2400 ddr4 pv4 19200

Case: Zalman Z11 plus high-performance

Parts I've chosen to upgrade, needs to be compatible with my RAM :

Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk (don't need WIFI)

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D

cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

Case: Silverstone FLP02 (like the style)

I just got a nice tax rebate, and I am going to upgrade gpu for the first time soons, I am currently on a i510600k, radeon rx570, 16gb ram.

I've seen a lot of people on reddit saying negative things about the RTX5070 12g, so was hoping for some advice from those who know pc building a lot better than I.

Some of my wishes are

everything ultra'd on 1080p with high frames 90+ minimum, im currently at high settings with around 40fps which is sads games like Rust I get around 30fps currently, things like icarus are just unplayable.

The ability to do 1440p for future, I wont be doing it right away.

Raytracing at 1080p, like cyberpunk impressive lighting and things

I use AI for work, so in theory the more vram the better to my naive understandings

I was going to go with this

MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8G VENTUS 2X OC PLUS Graphics Card - RTX 5060 Ti GPU, 8GB GDDR7 (28Gbps/128-bit), PCIe 5.0 - DUAL-Fan Thermal Design (2 x STORMFORCE FAN) - HDMI 2.1b, DisplayPort 2.1b

I would look in to a 4070 ti 12gb but it looks like its mostly just secondhand ones now and not as cheap as a 5060 ti, so I am thinking of trying to catch the 5070 12gb on offer for around £450 if I can find it. I know AI can be a bit unreliable or not suggest things unless prompted otherwise I'd say my budget is 300-400. I dont mind waiting around a month for offers to appear issue is the 5060 ti 8gb is £320, the 5070 12gb is £520 currently.

So I suppose my queries are, is the 5070 12gb worth it?

Will it do everything I'm hoping for?

Am I aiming too high/low for what im seeking?

Is it not reasonable to expect it to drop another £80 to £450 as that is probably my cap on spending

I currently have a Ryzen 5700x build with an Asus B450-F Gaming mobo. I've saved up some money to finally upgrade to a Ryzen 9600x build but wanted some opinions on the planned build. It'll mainly be used for gaming on an ultrawide monitor (Alienware aw3423dwf).

The GPU, Storage, and CPU Cooler are from my current build. Everything else will be new. My current case is a Rosewill Cullinan MX but im still deciding if I want to keep the case or go with the H5 Flow. The issue is my PC shroud in my desk is limited to these dimensions

Height 20in

Width 9.8 in

Depth 19in

I do want to keep some buffer space for airflow, especially for a top vent. My Cullinan currently sticks out until the bottom legs reach the edge so the depth isn't too much of a concern. Thw width is a little tight at the moment with this case, especially with how the glass panel screws stick out from the sides.

Side question: I have an old stick of Cooler Master Thermal Fusion 400 from idk how long ago. Should I get a new thermal paste with the build and which brand/series should I go for? I don't live in a consistently hot city but the summers do get hot, averaging high 80s to low 90s (excluding this heatwave).

Edit: Also looking at the Corsair iCue 220T Airflow Mid Tower

[PCPartPicker Part List](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/TZtGJw)

Type|Item|Price

:----|:----|:----

**CPU** | [AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 3.9 GHz 6-Core Processor](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/4r4Zxr/amd-ryzen-5-9600x-39-ghz-6-core-processor-100-100001405wof) | $176.00 @ Amazon

**CPU Cooler** | [Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/hYxRsY/thermalright-peerless-assassin-120-se-6617-cfm-cpu-cooler-pa120-se-d3) | $34.90 @ Amazon

**Motherboard** | [ASRock B650 Steel Legend WiFi ATX AM5 Motherboard](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/MgHqqs/asrock-b650-steel-legend-wifi-atx-am5-motherboard-b650-steel-legend-wifi) | $159.99 @ Amazon

**Memory** | [Crucial Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5600 CL46 Memory](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/3L9wrH/crucial-pro-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-5600-cl46-memory-cp2k16g56c46u5) | $504.83 @ Amazon

**Storage** | [HP EX950 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/xM97YJ/hp-ex950-2-tb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-5ms24aaabc) |-

**Storage** | [Samsung 870 QVO 2 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/R7FKHx/samsung-870-qvo-2-tb-25-solid-state-drive-mz-77q2t0bam) | $505.22 @ Amazon

**Storage** | [Intel 660p 2.048 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/7MQG3C/intel-660p-series-2tb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-ssdpeknw020t8x1) | $329.99 @ Amazon

**Video Card** | [Asus KO GAMING OC V2 GeForce RTX 3060 Ti LHR 8 GB Video Card](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/KXZ9TW/asus-geforce-rtx-3060-ti-lhr-8-gb-ko-gaming-oc-v2-video-card-ko-rtx3060ti-o8g-v2-gaming) |-

**Case** | [NZXT H5 Flow (2024) ATX Mid Tower Case](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/WZtLrH/nzxt-h5-flow-2024-atx-mid-tower-case-cc-h52fw-01) | $79.98 @ Amazon

**Power Supply** | [be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/dbRnTW/be-quiet-pure-power-13-m-850-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-bp027us) | $109.90 @ Amazon

| *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |

| **Total** | **$1900.81**

| Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2026-07-03 23:59 EDT-0400 |