Recommend upgrades to pc

Evil Nemesis

Evil Nemesis

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Hi, Long time now see? Anyway I'm planning to upgrade my GPU from GTX 950 2gb to maybe RX 580 / 590 or maybe RTX 2060 etc. Not sure..
I run a gaming youtube channel by the name of Irrational Gamer where I mostly play classic games like Dmc3/4 etc on 2k res and record tutorials for those games. I have 16 gb of ram and processor is: Intel 4770 and my mobo is GA-H87N Wifi. Should I upgrade the cpu too even though it's working okay for me so far, and which card should I choose?

Thanks.
 
I mean, if you're playin old games I guess it's fine, but the idea of upgrading to a 6 year old video card boggles my mind. I upgraded FROM a 2070 a couple of years ago and felt like I was holding out for quite some time.

If it were me, I'd be targetting the newest families for better features (antialiasing, etc.) even if you're buying on the low end.

Seeing some people recommending 6700 XT in place of a 4060 and maybe double to performance of 2060? I don't have first-hand knowledge of any of these things, but couldn't personally justify spending much on old kit. or rx 9060 and have access to the newer smoothing algorithms (FSR4) and such that don't run well on the older units if you're feeling slightly flush.

To get very high framerates, I think you'd need a motherboard/CPU upgrade too, but at least the new generation card would grant better visuals on newer games even if the CPU was bottlenecking you to a degree.

But again, that's just me. Things like antialiasing, noise and visual effects (pathtracing, etc) mean more to me than raw framerate and generally the reason I would upgrade.

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Thread 'The FSR Thread (Announcements & Discussion)'

AMD dropping the hammer with support for everything back to rx500 series to now and AND Nvidia 1xxx series to now. As well as consoles this is big news. 10 developers / engines on board right now with more to come.

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-fidelityfx-super-resolution-fsr-launches-june-22nd-supported-by-radeon-and-geforce-gpus
 
Okay so should I go for RTX 2060 6gb with my current CPU or should I choose RX 5700 XT 8gb? Will they work with my mobo? Thanks
 
I wouldn't even consider ray tracing in this decision; turning that on with a 2060 is a slideshow. As an owner of the Nitro+ version of the 5700XT, I'd say pick that if you can get it. It's very quiet/cool, though large.
 
Evil Nemesis said:
Bought a new pc and sold the old one, Ryzen 5 3600 with RX 6600, Thanks.
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Good platform choice and nice card selection. With that Platform choice you still have CPU upgrade options, up to something like the Ryzen 5000 series aaaand you can go up to considerably faster GPU's down the line easily to match.

Well done :up:

For reference, I'm rocking a Ryzen 5800X3D with a Radeon 7900XTX and my partners PC has Ryzen 5800X with a Radeon 6600XT. For the resolutions we game at (3840x1080 for me and 2560x1080 for them), they both play great.
 
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