Needing to Upgrade for Dragonflight

Wanting to upgrade my PC for Dragonflight since it launches in just 4 days. Obviously the upgrade won’t be in time for the launch but getting the PC upgraded in general is the goal. Currently my PC specs are:

HP Omen Desktop Gaming PC
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 3GB
Intel Core i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00GHz
8GB DDR4-2133 SDRAM
1TB Hardrive

For the motherboard the only info I could find currently is that it is an HP 82F1 ver. 1.01. Not sure if that is any help will try to update later with hopefully the actual motherboard name.

I know it is dated I’ve been constantly adjusting settings to keep the game running at roughly 60FPS which hasn’t been bad, but obviously could be better. I’m going to be having to buy a piece here, a piece there to replace different components. Would be nice to do everything all at once but life is cruel. Budget is a definite issue; I’m not going to be able to instantly get a RTX 3090(even if they weren’t sold out all the time it seems >.>). Roughly I’m looking at spending at a max, if possible, about $300-$500 per piece. I’ve been looking at different parts and I’ve got an idea of what looks like a good upgrade such as a RTX 3050 to be an ideal upgrade for my graphics card from what I’ve read on it but I’m not going to lie and say I know everything I need for something like this.

Any help at all will be tremendously appreciated and welcome.

the two things I would change/add would be

Increase Ram and getting a SSD.

  1. Determine if you have an extra slot for ram.
  2. Purchase a sata SSD, I don’t think you have a slot for m.2.
  3. I wouldn’t recommend this, but if you really wanted to, you can upgrade your cpu to an i7 7700. I’d check to see if there is a motherboard bios update before doing so. You’ll have to look on ebay or another forum to find the 7700.

These things should help smooth out your gameplay a bit.