Hey everyone! I'm considering whether to upgrade my current PC setup or just go for a new build altogether. My rig has been struggling with games I used to play smoothly, like Baldur's Gate 3, F1 25, Hades, Elden Ring, and Minecraft with shaders, and I'm aiming to maintain around 144 FPS at 1080p or 1440p with decent graphics.
Right now, my specs are a Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX 3060, 16GB Corsair DDR4 3600MHz RAM, and a TUF Gaming X570 Plus motherboard, paired with a Gigabyte 750W 80+ Gold PSU and 1TB of WD NVME Gen 3 storage.
I'm also using stock CPU coolers, and my PC could really use a clean-up, plus my cable management is quite tragic, which I plan to fix soon.
I'm not really sure if a cleanup would help my performance issues or if I should invest in upgrades. I've been looking into parts for a potential new build, like a Ryzen 5 9600X with the Gigabyte B850M Aorus Elite, a choice between a 5070 or 9070XT GPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM (yikes, those prices), an 850W PSU, and perhaps more NVME storage.
So, should I just build a new PC or which components would you recommend upgrading for a noticeable performance boost? Any guidance would be awesome! Thanks a lot!
2 Answers
If I were you, I'd prioritize getting the new GPU first and see how that improves your performance. You might not need a PSU upgrade right away unless yours is really old or one of those models that had issues. If you're running low on storage, adding another drive could be a simple fix too!
I think you should definitely upgrade your RAM to 32GB and grab a new graphics card like the 5070 or 5070ti. That should help a lot with your performance issues!
So I should get another 16GB of the same RAM, right? I can't just switch to DDR5 without a new motherboard and keeping my CPU, can I?
Yeah, you got it! Stick with what you have for RAM for now and focus on the GPU upgrade first.
Thanks for the advice! I'm definitely leaning towards the GPU upgrade. Do you think the 5070 or the 9070XT would be better, and would either of them fit with my current setup?