I bought an RTX 5060ti 16GB, now the rest

[chazzy2501]

yes, yes, YES. A bad value card but I want an upgrade... Well I had an RTX 3050 8GB so a nice upgrade but the 12100f is holding back the PC so hard the new card makes almost no difference..

 

Was thinking of going Ryzen 5600 or 7600, so £220 vs £400 (both new) second hand 5600 cpu and mobo combos (or separate) on ebay save almost no money. 

[Olliedawg]

I have a Ryzen 5 7600x, been very pleased with it. Paired with a 4060. 

 

In hindsight i wished I had gone for an AMD RX card instead

[Dos_Box]

I'm still soldiering on with an 8GB RX580 and know I really need to upgrade now. TBH, I don't play many modern titles, but there are some coming soon (Half Life 3 seems to be on the cards - no pun intended) where if I don't upgrade soon, I won't be able to play.

The whole situation with graphic cards and MSRP, is very off-putting though.

[chazzy2501]

RX580 was like £200, you'll never see value like that again.

[Dos_Box]

1 hour ago, chazzy2501 said:

RX580 was like £200, you'll never see value like that again.

I paid £115 in April 2020, just before things got silly. I'd bought my son one from the seller for £150 and they sent two by mistake (lockdown had started just a few days before) and offered me the second at a great discount. I bet they regretted that sale later!
They were unused and, I suspect, used as spares for crypto mining.

[Olliedawg]

16 hours ago, chazzy2501 said:

RX580 was like £200, you'll never see value like that again.

RX580 was a great card for the price, think mine was the Sapphire Nitro+ variant. I paid about £200 for mine too if i recall correctly. Got a few good years use out of it however eventually the card failed

[PotNoodleTech]

I am suprosed you've had no perfromance benefit at all??

 

I just got lucky and picked up a 4070 for 350 locally.  Happy as it's 20-30% faster than my old 3070 founders and it has extra 4gb Vram for the future.

 

I did think about the 5060ti but didnt think it would be faster than the 4070 and seems a bit buggy at the moment?

[Bumhug360]

I don't see where the hate for the card is coming from. I am building a PC for my nephew and aiming to be as cheap as possible,  at the moment looking at £930 with a 5060TI 16GB. For a 1440p gaming machine on a budget I cant see a better card available at the moment.

 

As for the original question have you thought about an I5-13400F? £170 at the moment new and probably get away with same motherboard

[chazzy2501]

47 minutes ago, Bumhug360 said:

I5-13400F? £170

 

I guess, this is not as fun an upgrade but might be the most sensible.  I rather hate the H board and I bought the wrong RAM. (the whole build was just wrong)

[ovenchips]

Honestly the new AM5 Ryzen chips are absolute beasts and you can't go wrong, even if you were to pick up a previous gen one - bit more to pay upfront but the chip will last you 5 years minimum with no issue, and there'll be new chips out by then that will probably still be on the same socket assuming the mobo you pick gets a BIOS update to support them. 

 

For reference I recently moved from an i7 11700k to a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and got virtually double (if not more) FPS in any CPU limited games I play (paired with a 3080 10GB)

 

If you want to save money, then a second hand AM4 like you mentioned is still a decent workhorse for the price, but your upgrade route will be much more expensive down the line as the socket is EOL.

[chazzy2501]

ok, just bought a 13400f as it was only £109 on Amazon... 

 

 

[chazzy2501]

4 hours ago, PotNoodleTech said:

I am suprosed you've had no perfromance benefit at all

 

Thought I'd reply to this, I play VR and the game not only does not play better but it is now more glitchy... The drivers are total rubbish: https://youtube.com/shorts/wgpVqN02Bkg?si=NJlxy129o4Rn1U7n

 

having to run my sound via a headphone adapter into my speakers as the monitor sound glitches all the time..