I've started playing the War Dogs playtest and I'm getting around 80 FPS even on Potato settings. My current PC has a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, an RTX 2070 Super, an ASUS ROG Strix B450-F motherboard, and 16GB of RAM. I mainly play competitive FPS games like CS, which already runs above 300 FPS, but I'd also like to play newer multiplayer and single-player games comfortably. The PC is used almost exclusively for gaming, and I'm in the UK with a budget of roughly £800. Should I upgrade individual parts, particularly the graphics card, or would it make more sense to start a new build?
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For an £800 gaming budget, keeping the current system and upgrading only the graphics card makes the most sense. Depending on prices in the UK, look at cards around the RTX 5070 or Radeon 9070 class, then consider a 32GB memory kit if there’s room left. You only need a new power supply if your current one lacks the required wattage, connectors, or quality.
Your 5800X3D is still a very capable gaming CPU, so I wouldn’t start over or replace the whole platform yet. The RTX 2070 Super is the more obvious limitation for newer, graphics-heavy games. A graphics card upgrade should give you the biggest improvement, although check your power supply first. Moving to 32GB of RAM would also be a sensible quality-of-life upgrade, but it’s not as urgent as the GPU.
Try raising the graphics settings as a quick test. Very low settings can shift more of the workload onto the CPU, while your 5800X3D may already be capable of much higher performance than the GPU can deliver. Since the processor is near the top of what that motherboard platform supports, I’d spend the budget on a stronger GPU rather than changing the CPU and motherboard.
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