So I’m playing on a nearly 10 year old rig at this point.
I52500k at 4.2ghz
Asus Maximum Gen V mobo
8GM Ram
GTX670FTW GPU
I don’t even remember my psu. I think its like 750/1000 watt Corsair
Some 10k rpm HDD. Maybe a WD Raptor?
I’m kinda noticing its a bit of a drag at times. When loading into raids and dungeons people have already killed the first two pulls before I get in.
I gots to do better yall.
I’m willing to throw 3-500$ at it if you guys think it’s worth it to upgrade and be able to run the game on max settings at 40-50fps on 1080. If not then what do you guys recommend for a new rig?
If I had to throw a budget out there I’d say 2k-2.5k would be reasonable
Thanks!
Well, if loading time is the main issue, moving to a solid state drive would help immensely with your experience.
Your GPU and CPU are a bit behind, but right now both are kind of hard to come by.
I would grab a quality SATA SSD for $115 like a Samsung 860 EVO
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Inch-Internal-MZ-76E1T0B-AM/dp/B078DPCY3T/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia-wc-nc-drs1_0?cv_ct_cx=1tb+ssd&dchild=1&keywords=1tb+ssd&pd_rd_i=B078DPCY3T&pd_rd_r=6df379e1-4e0e-41ea-af02-9621822f4b49&pd_rd_w=C119y&pd_rd_wg=rQE23&pf_rd_p=a64002b9-9c26-4361-b8a1-b0f5a4835670&pf_rd_r=0QZBKY29DFCMVBV4SY2M&psc=1&qid=1611874516&sr=1-1-38d0a374-3318-4625-ad92-b6761a63ecf6
When you finally do upgrade everything else, you can get an NVME drive for your boot and use this one as a game drive.
As for upgrading the rest of your system…I’d get the SSD and just camp Best Buy online GPU drops or a Microcenter for an RTX 3060ti/3070 for $399/499, or an RTX 3080/6800/6800XT for $700+
IF you get lucky enough to get a GPU, then I would order the rest. CPUs aren’t too hard to find, but the GPU is the linchpin of the operation. I wouldn’t even start on the other stuff until you can secure the graphics card.
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Intel Rocket Lake is just about 2 months away. I would advise waiting for that before upgrade. You don’t need big amount of cash for upgrade. Just CPU, GPU, motherboard, RAM and SSD will give you big performance boost. Unless you wanna change casing (to fit AIO) as well.
Core i5-11600K or Core i7-11700K
Noctua NH-D15
Asus Z590-A or MSI Z590 Tomahawk
8GB X2 DDR4-3200 or DDR4-3600
RTX 3060 (or Ti) or RTX 3070 (depends on your monitor)
PNY CS3030 500GB or 1TB (only fits on M.2 PCIE slot)
Phanteks Eclipse P500A case (optional)
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I got this SSD installed and game is running much better. Will start camping for a GPU now.
Thanks everyone.
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Rocket Lake so far doesn’t look much faster than Comet Lake. Benefit of Rocket lake is more around I/O.
Upgrading the CPU will make a huge difference too in your case. If you live near a Microcenter, the 10600k has been as low as $150.
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Wow really? That’s a ridiculous deal
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Meant to reply to Aribeth
On a side note, I saw the i7-1700F is only $229 right now on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086MN2XYL
With power limit increases on appropriate boards, this should turbo to all-core 4.5-4.6ghz most of the time and beat out the 3700x in gaming, and be close to the 5800X at reasonable resolutions. And for less than half the price of the 5800X and a good $100 less than the 3700x.
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Using Samsung t5 external ssd is also good for gaming right?
And wow Sal you are very helpful in these forums whether about games or pc parts lol
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Here’s a breakdown from Crucial:
https://www.crucial.com/articles/about-ssd/external-ssds-vs-internal-ssds
People use them and report decent success (as anything’s better than a hard drive), but personally I would only ever do so if you are limited such as a laptop with no more expansion slots.
If you have an M.2 slot or a free SATA port, use it.
Thanks - I try to help when I can. Sometimes I end up muddying the waters instead, though, LOL.
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Thanks the reason I am getting external ssd is because my desktop is 8 years old except for the gpu which is about 2-3 years old. This system used to have a crucial ssd but it stopped working years ago so am back to using WD black hdd.
Good news though is that I used the shadowbringer benchmark and my system still scored extremely high so it seems it still have some life left haha. Also replaced the thermal paste on the cpu and the stock fan into a cooler master 212 fan.
Btw do you use evga precision.? I think I don’t know how to set up curve hence my fan is very noisy when ever I start games. Do you think my gpu might overheat if I do not use programs like evga precision? I do not overclock anything. My gpu is gtx 1060 3gb
I use MSI afterburner for Nvidia GPUs and the normal AMD Adrenaline for AMD GPUs. Depending your GPU, it may just be a loud model, or it could be the thermal paste has dried up on it.
Regarding the SSD - why not get an internal SSD and replace the HDD? Or swap it around? Assuming you have at least one more slot for a 2.5" drive and an extra SATA port/cable.
2-3 years is enough for the paste to dry up?
Also I want to use external since I might build a new system in the near future and want to use this external ssd partly as a portable files storage aside from games
If I do not use any third party program for my gpu fans, is it safe?
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Eh, it’s possible, but I would say it’s probably either your particular model of card or your case’s airflow situation.
The card will throttle if it gets too hot, or possibly shut down. What specific graphics card is it? What is your case? How about fans?
It is an ASU’s gtx 1060 3Gb
If it’s one of the single fan mini cards, it may just be loud. And especially if your case isn’t very good on airflow.
What are your temperatures during play on the GPU? Anything under low 80s I wouldn’t worry. 83 is maximum safe temperature then it starts throttling. At 90c I believe it will shut down.
Mine hovers around 50-60 and it is dual fan
Edit: I will try moving the temp curve further to the right to see if it will be enough to lessen noise while still enough cooling haha
edit 2: so far so good. i put 30% fan speed only at 50 degrees unlike before where it was 50% at 50
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Wow that’s a steal. With a Z90 and 3.2Ghz RAM you’re set.
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I stupidly ordered a 5800x off AMD’s webstore only to later find out horror stories about their webstore, and that they don’t let you cancel orders.
This is bad for impulsive buyers.
I hope you put a Hyper 212 on it.
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