Upgrade or wait?

[Rossco06]

Hi Everyone,

Just looking for a bit of advice really, with the upcoming launch of the 'super' 40 series cards I'm looking at perhaps upgrading my GPU to the 4070 Ti super. I just wanted to know if my CPU will impact performance on a card like that significantly or whether it would be okay? Or if you can see any other potential bottlenecks? I will probably be looking at upgrading the CPU to something like the 5800x3d in the future.

Below are the specs of the PC I bought a couple of years ago.

Thanks!


Case
PCS SPECTRUM RGB MID TOWER CASE
Promotional Item
Get Resident Evil Village with select Samsung SSDs
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF GAMING B550-PLUS (AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0)
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3070 - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 6900MB/R, 5000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB INTEL® 670p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR | 2500MB/sW)
1st Storage Drive
2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 240 Series RGB High Performance Liquid Cooler (AMD)

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hi Everyone,

Just looking for a bit of advice really, with the upcoming launch of the 'super' 40 series cards I'm looking at perhaps upgrading my GPU to the 4070 Ti super. I just wanted to know if my CPU will impact performance on a card like that significantly or whether it would be okay? Or if you can see any other potential bottlenecks? I will probably be looking at upgrading the CPU to something like the 5800x3d in the future.

Below are the specs of the PC I bought a couple of years ago.

Thanks!


Case
PCS SPECTRUM RGB MID TOWER CASE
Promotional Item
Get Resident Evil Village with select Samsung SSDs
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF GAMING B550-PLUS (AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0)
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3070 - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 6900MB/R, 5000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB INTEL® 670p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR | 2500MB/sW)
1st Storage Drive
2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 240 Series RGB High Performance Liquid Cooler (AMD)

You’d need a more powerful PSU, and you’d need to check on the dimensions of your case.

But the CPU would be fine assuming you’re not at 1080p

Notes the question though, what screen are you pairing it with and why are you upgrading so early?

 

[Rossco06]

Thanks for your reply,

So i have a 34 inch ultrawide 1440p, also for some reason the above spec didn't include the upgrades i made to my order so i have included them below.

I find that quite a few of the new games i'm playing this last year just don't quite achieve the performance i would like playing at high settings so i'm not really pushing the monitor as much as i could. The 8gb of VRAM on that card isn't holding up very well also.

COOLERMASTER MASTERBOX TD500 MESH ARGB GAMING CASE
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

 

[cypher99]

Personally i'd just buy another 2x 8GB RAM (around £25 i'm guessing) and get a 4060 ti (16GB VRAM version) from ASUS. Swap a better CPU and video card in later.. this could potentially save you from spending £800 too much when there could be price drops in around 12-18 months when the 50 series Geforce cards come out. I think you could go to 2027 without needing a whole new system, this assumes you're a casual gamer and might have a PS5 on hand for GTA 6 when that comes out.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Personally i'd just buy another 2x 8GB RAM (around £25 i'm guessing) and get a 4060 ti (16GB VRAM version) from ASUS. Swap a better CPU and video card in later.. this could potentially save you from spending £800 too much when there could be price drops in around 12-18 months when the 50 series Geforce cards come out. I think you could go to 2027 without needing a whole new system, this assumes you're a casual gamer and might have a PS5 on hand for GTA 6 when that comes out.

I beg to differ on the 4060ti 16gb, it’s no improvement over the 3070 and would be a disastrous waste of money.

The 4060ti 16gb is a useless card at the price point.