Should i consider getting an upgrade
Posted by Certain-Advisor9977@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 7 comments
Hello 2-3 years ago i bought a prebuild at the time that seemed pretty worth it at the time until recently due to micro- freezing/ leg in new gen games that seem uncontrollable. I'm considering buying new parts for an new build to build myself for the first time but I know how expensive that can be, So not sure if i should go with that option or just upgrade the prebuild.
Side note: I know i definetly need a ram upgrade but I feel like i would also have to consider upgrading other parts. I am a beginner so I am not completely sure and any help/ tips would be appreciated
My Current Specs:
CPU: Amd Ryzen 5 5500
GPU:AMD Radeon Rx 6500
AsRock Motherboard b550m-c
WDBlue sn570 ssd
1x8 Ram Team Group Vulcan Z 8GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory
simagus@reddit
https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_7_5800x-vs-amd_ryzen_5_5500
CPU to 5800X or 5800X3D if the larger cache is worth it to you. You can still find 5800X around, but the X3D 10th Anniversary re-launch price of $349 was only announced recently.
Not sure if worth that much over what you can get a 5800X for but it's a better CPU overall if you're willing to pay the extra. A working second hand 5800X is probably your best "budget" option.
Your main problem is the 4GB VRAM on the RX 6500 XT, and you're better putting the money into an RX 9070 XT than paying through the nose for DDR5 to move from AM4 to AM5.
Double your current ram with a compatible (ideally identical) 8GB stick and you're done.
You didn't mention your PSU, but you'll want 650W for a standard RX 9070 and 750W for an RX 9070 XT.
Certain-Advisor9977@reddit (OP)
apologies it is the Apevia ATX-PR600W Prestige 600W and thanks for the advice.
simagus@reddit
You might be able to squeeze enough out of it for the RX 9070XT under full load.
but it's not leaving a lot of overhead with a 5800X
Let's round that up to 500W and allow 50W for everything else in the system to get powered (fans, mobo, drives) that's 550W and if you have a lot of drives up to 35W for a 3.5" mechanical HDD, 5W for a 2.5 SSD and around 10W per NVMe/M.2 you could be straining your PSU to the absolute limit under full load.
While they are rated to put out their full watt capacity (if it's a decent PSU) it's ideal to have 50W-100W overhead for spikes and just so it's not running at it's maximum load for hours at a time during a really demanding gaming session.
95% or more of the time nothing is going to be truly under full load, and you can always run Furmark if you want to test the stability, but you might be better going for the 9070 non XT or even a 9060 XT which is still a good card and also much cheaper.
forevertired1982@reddit
Thats a very low end gpu and you only have 8gb of ram in single channel....
Windows 11 can use 6gb-8gb just sitting on the desktop so when you are ging you pc is using your ssd/hdd as extra ram which is super slow even on the fastest ssd compared to using actual ram,
You would get a huge performance uplift with a 9060 16gb and upgrading to 2×8gb of ram.
Desperate-Big3982@reddit
Getting another stick of memory that matches the one you have will make a big difference. That will double your memory to 16GB, which I think is the minimum for a gaming PC now, and will enable dual channel access which will speed up memory performance.
After that, you can consider replacing the GPU, but do the memory upgrade first and see what happens.
Certain-Advisor9977@reddit (OP)
Yeah i thought of this heavily because i know i definetly need dual channeling. i've been looking for 2x16 sticks on marketplace.
No_Spare1827@reddit
well unfortunately u have one of the worst GPUs to come out in the last like 10 years upgrading that would do serious wonder for u alone