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Upgrade Parts or Get a New PC?

Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 05:36:55 No.1528799 View View Reply Original Report

I'll post the other important information down below but here's some for now: I have a Geforce GTX 1660 for the graphics card, I have an i7-9700f cpu, @ 3 ghz, and 16 gigs of ram total. Baseboard: Gigabyte tech. Couldn't play Oblivion the remake w/o it stuttering and I can't play Doom:tda... Do I get a new rig or upgrade some parts? Any other info you need, let me know.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 06:48:59 No.1528804 Report

Quoted By: >>1528860

>>1528799
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Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 06:56:21 No.1528806 Report

Quoted By: >>1528860

>>1528799
You're already near the highest you can go in that board. The CPU can be upgraded to the i9 9900k but that's as far as you can go, and by now that's an older and very expensive CPU from 4 gens ago. Wouldn't recommend paying that much for that little improvement.

It would be better to only upgrade the GPU to extend the life of your PC and prepare for a full upgrade later. You'll likely need a higher wattage PSU too because stronger GPUs need a lot more juice, but later you can carry the PSU over along the GPU and ram into the new system.

An used 1080 ti wound give you 200% your current performance, and anything on the 20 series would be a x3 improvement on any games despite keeping an older CPU, as the GPU matters a lot more on the performance.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 16:09:31 No.1528860 Report

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>>1528804
Sorry for my ignorance, I don't come to this board often.
>>1528806
That's what I was thinking after I tried to ask reddit/plebbit for such advice but they weren't as straight forward as you- I know I'll have to save up for a new rig.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Jun 2025 21:10:12 No.1528884 Report

Quoted By: >>1528985

Here's a "nothing to lose" situation. Get a new gpu (that you would get if you were to get this new rig) and pop it into your current pc. If it works out and your performance is good enough, you're done. game away. If you're still fucked, then buy the rest of the parts only now you already have the gpu?

I suspect (but not sure because I don't fuck with gpu hardware discussions much) that it is possible your only problem is vram. So I think it is possible that you can get a new gpu with good vram (5060 ti 16 gb)? or a budget amd RX or something with like 8 or gb or something in between and it might fix the stutters if you are running out of vram.

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Anonymous Thu 05 Jun 2025 17:25:23 No.1528985 Report

Quoted By: >>1529018

>>1528884
>that it is possible your only problem is vram
For Oblivion it is, and it would probably help w/ a couple other games I got for now. I have 6 gigs for vram and Oblivion needs 8... I bought this rig in early 2021 and I thought it was the best thing there was; now I'm looking at possibly spending between 2500-4500 for a very good pc, and that'll take a while for me to save.

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Anonymous Thu 05 Jun 2025 23:41:32 No.1529018 Report

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>>1528985
> I'm looking at possibly spending between 2500-4500 for a very good pc
Nooo, don't do that. For approx $1000 you get a system with quite a few more years of gaming on it while you anticipate the upcoming AI paradigm shift in the future mobo+GPU card pairings.

>I have 6 gigs for vram and Oblivion needs 8
The modern games use 12GB. It's more or less agreed by the major youtube game channels that 8GB VRAM is insufficient for the games coming out now. So it's basically 16GB GPU that you're looking for.

Radeon 9060 16GB is your baseline budget GPU $439 at Amazon
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nkfJmlyddss
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-RadeonTM-Graphics-2-5-Slot-axial-tech/dp/B0F8PPT3G1?crid=D36761N35GQY

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gpu+tier+list

The previous advice to get the GPU and plug it into your existing system was reasonable as long as you have enough power. But the modern GPU want more lanes than your old board has. So you're going to be getting a new mobo and CPU.

Ryzen 5 7400F + RTX 3070 + MSI Pro B650M-P complete system $1000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akr6JEaX-MU

*note: AMD is going to discontinue support for 650series mobo in favor of the 850series mobo. So you will probably get a different one instead of the MSI Pro B650M-P in the system above.

**Ragnarok Online runs fine on your existing system without a GPU card. ha ha

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Jun 2025 17:31:28 No.1529190 Report

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>>1529018
>Ryzen 5 7400F + RTX 3070 + MSI Pro B650M-P complete system $1000
7600 is the better choice over the 7400F which is less ideal unless you are using water to keep it cooler than an air cooler solution. I prefer air, so the 7600 is preferred to the 7400F.

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