Upgrade advice

[kolaval]

Skimming through, I hvanet seen anyone mention the obvious issue.. just the "go for a 5060"

Yes I did, see the first response.

R3 2200g caps out at pcie gen3 x8
B450 board caps out at gen3 x16 slot with that cpu, so effectly drops to gen3 x8 speeds

The 5060 is Gen5 x8 speed card.. so it will run quite a lot slower in the current board+cpu (at pci3 x8) then the added bonus of the cpu being far too slow to feed it properly.


first step: Get a cpu, either a Ryzen 5 3600 or a Ryzen 5 5600 to at least get gen3 x 16 support. Then go for a 2nd hand rx6700xt on carbonite. This will go over your 5k budget. (could go for a 6600xt instead to stay under 5k)

This would make a day and night difference from that 2200g cpu adn you wont need to buy new ram.

You would need a b550 motherboard (and the above mentioned cpu's) to get into gen4x16 speed pcie.. by that point you're better off saving and grabbing an AM5 upgrade kit.. but thats not really an option for now since ddr5 ram is astronomically expensive.

Dont get brainwashed into green logos if they wont work nicely with the rest of the system.

I think it's a trade off, there's much to be upgraded on this system.
Upgrade mobo and CPU now and GPU later or GPU now and mobo CPU later.

IMHO if he can get that 5060 at +-R5k it would give an immediate improvement over the 1060 3GB
And he plans on going AM5 at which time the 5060 will still be relevant.

I think with the 5060 he'll be able to at least run e.g cyberpunk which I do not know will happen on the 3GB card even if he does upgrade the CPU/Mobo?

 

[boggom]

Thanks all for the input. I got a RX6600 non XT for R4100 all incl on Amazon. The 5060 would have gone up to R6000 with the taxes included. I'll start looking for a (local possibly second hand) CPU for up to R1250 or so.

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

I know some people don't like second hand, but how often have you heard of a CPU that died, especially AMD?
If you buy from a trusted member on Carbonite, risk is very low.
3700x does not come up often and are grabbed quickly.
But plenty of 3600 available for under 1k and will be a big upgrade from what you had.

 

[Lupus]

Thanks all for the input. I got a RX6600 non XT for R4100 all incl on Amazon. The 5060 would have gone up to R6000 with the taxes included. I'll start looking for a (local possibly second hand) CPU for up to R1250 or so.

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