Upgrading RTX3060 card

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I am looking at my options to upgrade maybe my RTX3060 card. The specs is a Asus RTX3060 OC V2, 12GB card running with a AMD5700X CPU, 32GB RAM, 2NVMe, 650W Gold rate PSU.

I want to stay within the wattage also I have with my PSU, because that PSU is only a year old. What options do I have with GPUs, I would prefer to stay in the region of R10k. I was looking at AMD graphics cards maybe, but not sure what to look at, so many model numbers etc. Nvidia is just getting over priced.
 
Maybe wait for the 50 series cards to drop and get one of those or the inevitable specials on older 40 series stock.
That said, I'm running a 3060 mobile 6GB, what is your card struggling with?
 
kolaval said:
Maybe wait for the 50 series cards to drop and get one of those or the inevitable specials on older 40 series stock.
That said, I'm running a 3060 mobile 6GB, what is your card struggling with?
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It is not struggling per say, most games I play now at 1080p but I have a monitor which runs at 1440p 165hz would like to utilize that a bit more.
 
Stick with it for now, unless you add a bit more and get a 4070 but those have skyrocked in price.
 
Depends if you want to buy new or secondhand. Secondhand you can get great cards for under 10k. And after all the new cards drop those prices on the older ones is going to fall even more.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Depends if you want to buy new or secondhand. Secondhand you can get great cards for under 10k. And after all the new cards drop those prices on the older ones is going to fall even more.
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Honestly, not seeing a massive price difference in new and second hand lately :-(
 
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Lupus said:
Honestly, not seeing a massive price difference in new and second hand lately :-(
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Same, was shopping recently and in the end just bought a 3060 new to tide me over. I haven't had a gaming PC for a while so there are plenty of older games for me to catch up on.
 
B-1 said:
Same, was shopping recently and in the end just bought a 3060 new to tide me over. I haven't had a gaming PC for a while so there are plenty of older games for me to catch up on.
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3060 is perfectly fine still, honestly the market seems to be heading towards AI flashiness anyway :). The only real advantages the 40 series brought was slight bump in speed and a lot lower power consumption. I'm still rocking my 3 1/2 year old 3070 ti cause prices are ridonk even second hand.
I ended up getting my wife a 4060 laptop for only a bit more than a full blown PC with a 4060 in it, sure the CPU is a 12th gen but everything else is still great.
 
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Lupus said:
3060 is perfectly fine still, honestly the market seems to be heading towards AI flashiness anyway :). The only real advantages the 40 series brought was slight bump in speed and a lot lower power consumption. I'm still rocking my 3 1/2 year old 3070 ti cause prices are ridonk even second hand.
I ended up getting my wife a 4060 laptop for only a bit more than a full blown PC with a 4060 in it, sure the CPU is a 12th gen but everything else is still great.
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That is the thing, prices are getting too ridiculous and even on the second hand market. My worries is that it will get to a certain point where is is way out of my league to upgrade my card because of the costs of a new one.
 
Pulserider said:
That is the thing, prices are getting too ridiculous and even on the second hand market. My worries is that it will get to a certain point where is is way out of my league to upgrade my card because of the costs of a new one.
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It's always sadly going to be like that :-(, if you buy now or wait till later. Problem is if you buy a new card now in a few years time you're back in the same boat.
The joys of PC gaming I guess :-(
 
Have you maxxed out the power limit in afterburner?

I would try that too.
 
Pulserider said:
That is the thing, prices are getting too ridiculous and even on the second hand market. My worries is that it will get to a certain point where is is way out of my league to upgrade my card because of the costs of a new one.
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If you can wait, wait, the prices will come down.

If you can't then it does not matter, just shop around:

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Try get something with more than 8GB of VRAM for 1440p.
 
Gtx Gaming said:
would wait for 5070, with AI frames you can achieve 4090 performance
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Can you use AI to do the gaming for you? Then you can just sit back and sip a whiskey while its gaming.
 
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