What to upgrade?

simonp1

Hi all.
This is my current setup but looking to upgrade to take advantage of the monitors capabilities.
Would a amd 5700xt be the way to go? Or maybe keeping the vega and upgrade to ryzen 7 3700x Motherboard and Ram.
Which would be the best route for highest settings at 144hz 1440 resolution gaming ex battlefield v etc?

Thanks in advance budget 500 yoyos

I should say I wouldn't be overclocking unless it's really easy to do


HANNspree HG324QJB 32-Inch 144 Hz 
16GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4-2400
ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB M.2
3000GB WD Red WD30EFRX
ASRock Z170 Pro4S Intel Z170
Intel Core i7 6700 4x 3.40GHz
550 Watt Seasonic G Series Modular 80+ Gold
Asus Radeon RX VEGA 56 ROG Strix OC 8GB

K.O.Kiki

GPU although you'll be bottlenecked by the resolution either way.

For Battlefield, AMD cards are the way to go.

Homelander

If just one thing, the graphics card, a 5700xt or 2070 super.

If you want an idea of how well the 6700 does at 144hz just run games at low resolution and settings temporarily to see the cpu ceiling in games you are playing. in most games it's still pretty OK.

Jo Satan

You can overclock your 6700 using an old bios, should be able to get 4.2mhz to 4.5mhz stable if you have a decent cpu cooler.
https://play3r.net/news/overclock/overclocking-news/intel-non-k-processors-can-now-be-overclocked-on-z170-bios-files-inside/

The 3700x will not give you much more gaming performance over the 6700 @ 4.5mhz

I would not buy a cpu until gaming performance improves by 20%+

You could sell the vega 56 for €200 and buy a 2080 Super. But even a 2080 super will not get you 1440p 144fps Max on all games.


The Navi refresh and Ampere cards are to be released this year but if you can't wait I would buy a Nvidia card as they hold their second hand value better than AMD cards, mainly due to Nvidia not dropping prices on older gen cards in any significant way.

BloodBath

Jo Satan wrote: »

You can overclock your 6700 using an old bios, should be able to get 4.2mhz to 4.5mhz stable if you have a decent cpu cooler.
https://play3r.net/news/overclock/overclocking-news/intel-non-k-processors-can-now-be-overclocked-on-z170-bios-files-inside/

The 3700x will not give you much more gaming performance over the 6700 @ 4.5mhz

I would not buy a cpu until gaming performance improves by 20%+

You could sell the vega 56 for €200 and buy a 2080 Super. But even a 2080 super will not get you 1440p 144fps Max on all games.


The Navi refresh and Ampere cards are to be released this year but if you can't wait I would buy a Nvidia card as they hold their second hand value better than AMD cards, mainly due to Nvidia not dropping prices on older gen cards in any significant way.

Averages might not improve much but 1% low's should improve a lot especially in bigger open world games with a lot of visible 3d geometry.

simonp1

Lads Thanks for the replys took a long time to decide but this is what I ended up with.

Replaced everything bar the Adata nvme

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Processor
Aorus X570 AORUS ELITE
PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Devil 8GB
Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz
WD Blue SN550 1TB High-Performance M.2 Pcie NVMe SSD
EVGA 750 BQ, 80+ BRONZE 750W, Semi Modular
NZXT H510 - Compact ATX Mid-Tower PC Gaming Case
Corsair LL120 LL Series, 120 mm Dual Light Loop RGB LED

Built it yesterday bar Battlefield v crashing a bit and cooler noise I'm happy

The old machine I have taken apart and will get my 8yr old gamer rebuild it

Samuel T. Cogley

How do you find the Red Devil noise wise? I've one on order to replace the Thicc III I bought which is hitting 60dBA.

simonp1

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

How do you find the Red Devil noise wise? I've one on order to replace the Thicc III I bought which is hitting 60dBA.

Hi Samuel

Seems fine at least I can't hear it over the Wraith Cooler

Samuel T. Cogley

Thanks Simon!