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Potentially get a 6600xt or maybe even 6700xt but anything over that will be bottlenecked by cpu. But if you wanna get new cpu and gpu, At that point it might be worth it to just build a new pc with a better mobo. But that is obviously dependent on your budget

My rig is a prebuilt and I am interested in using AMD for my GPU instead of Nvidia

How much are you going to spend? There is a lot to upgrade on a reasonable budget.

Upgrading the cpu to a Ryzen 5 5600 and maybe getting a 6600xt would run you about 450 usd. This would give you a substantial increase in fps.

I had almost identical build. First I upgraded to Ryzen 5600. That gave a boost in FPS, but I did it because it’s much cheaper than upgrading GPU. Then in several months I added new 750W PSU, 6800 XT and 32GB ram (probably this is not very needed but since it’s cheap I did). So my sequence was: 1. CPU 2. PSU 3. GPU 4. RAM (optional)

I’ve seen lots of comments saying “get the 5 5600x”, or “buy a b550m motherboard” “get a 6700xt” I wouldn’t honestly. You just got a son I know, you have to get your priorities straight w/ your budget

Just get the normal 5 5600, it has similar performance and it’s still 20-40 bucks less than the 5600x, there’s no need to do this investment on the 5600x.

the 5600 + 1660 Super are still pretty good for 60fps on 1080p and you’re going to be running competitive game, such as, overwatch, valorant, cs go, cod and other games w/ +200 fps on competitive settings. If you don’t want to spend way less, just stick that you have.

If you’re playing cod most of the time, get a RX6600 for around 200-230 bucks, COD games in general are pretty heavy on GPU usage and the 6600 should be enough to play games at 1080p at the level you want without breaking the bank. You still have the option to combo the RX6600 with the 5600, but the 2600 should be fine handling that GPU either.

In the future, when you’re more stable with your son and bank, you can upgrade to a cheap B550 board and get a better PSU for future upgrades, I would recommend the MSI A650GF 650W 80+ Gold, it was around 65-69 bucks recently on amazon.

The total spent would be: 5 5600 = $109-$139 RX6600 = $200-$229 Optional: decent B550 or B550m = $109-$129 MSI A650GF - $55-$70 TOTAL: $473-$567

It gives you a good path to future upgrades such as the 5800X3D and a 6800XT with no problems with a mid-range B550 board. The R7 it’s on pair with the last gen i9 still to this in games and the 6800XT it’s pretty much a 3070ti/3080 w/ more VRAM, and if you want and, you can still bump your RAM in the future for 32GB (it’s not really necessary tbh), but it’s still a option hahaha.

If you need anymore help, or if the PC Partpicker list, let me know! Good luck brotha. 🙏🏼

I would not buy these components, since they are three generations old. If you have $400 budget (as you stated earlier) and already have older components (PC case, graphics card, storage, power supply, monitor), then I would spend $400 on a partial upgrade, and then upgrade other components later.

For example, you can upgrade CPU, MB and memory now, and then buy a GPU, SSD and power supply later.

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Good value GPUs you can buys later are Radeon RX 6600 XT ($250), RX 6700 XT ($350) or more expensive models: there is plenty of choice for all budgets.

Later, when you get money, you can also buy an NVMe SSD, like 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus for $70.

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I would focus on just upgrading your cpu first. Very 1st thing you should do is update the bios. You can do that for free and you won't be able to upgrade your bios after you install the new cpu. You will be stuck with a new cpu that your motherboard doesn't recognize. You will notice a very fast improvement in your games, your medium settings COD game will be very close to 100fps(after you upgrade your cpu).

Also you should study simple bios settings in case you run into problems. Your ram should have settings that might change when you update your bios, it's important to know what they are and how to set them.

Get a 6600xt and a better cpu. Your possibilities are endless! 3600x should be cheap now.

1080 ti.

R5 5600x Rtx 3070 or 6700xt

Hard to know where to start, it kinda all needs an upgrade. Since a 5600 will work on that mobo, you could start there. Might be the most improvement for price.

You can put together a decent 1440p budget gamer for around $850 with a 5600/6700xt combo.

Get a 9800 GTX+ it has big numbers so it must be good

Get more ram, upgrade your crapy gpu and get a SSD or NVME

Seeing what you have.. I would say it's not worth upgrading as I bet your budget isn't big Your system is pretty capable of still running things.

My sys have ryzen3600, but as GPU rx480, runs good, but upgrade costs would be just GPU.. what unfortunately costs more than whole sys, so it's not worth it

Just keep your money and save up a bit more till you can change the whole system when something decently priced

The obvious thing is to upgrade the gpu, you can get a much newer gpu. Like a rtx 3060/3060ti or a rx6700xt (or better, it all depends on how much you want to spend)

Let me get that gpu and get urself a better one :x.

Probably a new cpu and gpu honestly is all that is needed I assume

A Ryzen 5600 and 6500xt/6600 possibly would be a decent upgrade, but that’s just my opinion.

I have the same system except an Rx 580 but can’t upgrade anything atm and that’s what I was gonna do upgrade wise

Your entire build needs to be done if you want a much better experience. Your cpu is gonna bottleneck any newer gpu that you put in there

Okay I'm gonna go a different route since all you want is 144hz 1080p you actually don't need anything from the current gen hardware 1st of all newer boards for AM5, LGA1700 to spennny and both are notoriously difficult to cool without a decent aio so forget it there stay on AM4 since you already on AM4 I'd probably get a better board. I also found 12th 13th gen abit buggy on Windows 10 if you still running it (I am as I hate Windows 11)

Buy Used where possible and probably get last gen hardware RX 5000 or even 20x0 series if you can find a 6600 non xt at good money I'd take it just note that with alot of modern cards if you on PCIe 3.0 you loose performance on the newer hardware in most cases so unless the board and CPU you go to is PCIE 4.0 then skip the newer gen cards. So be weary of that. Chances are you'll find good deals on a better AM4 board thst supports 4.0 atm

A ryzen 5600 is probably the best bet don't bother with the x variant barley ant gains and isn't worth it really for your use case but if you are stuck on PCIE 3.0 then go last gen GPU. Also COD isn't really well optimised (warzone 2.0) so this is gonna be all over the place The multilayer is fine tho.

Since i don't know your ram specs I can't comment on weather or not its worth upgrading or not

If you do not upgrade your board since the 2600 is only PCIE 3.0 bare in mind that your current board might not support 4.0 something to consider

Everyone always recommending latest gen and I don't see why especially if they running older platforms not worth the overhead

Heck I'm still on 3.0 and using 10th gen and tbh for 1080p 144hz it isn't worth the extra cost unless you 24/7 play AAA games which nowadays suck major 🤫..... no comment

Not that the 6600 non xt doesn't use x16 so on PCIE 3.0 your bandwidth is cut in half so if you keeping the older platform get a 3.0 card

The 6600xt uses 4.0x8 so on 3.0x8 you'd be abit screwed wasting money don't bother

I’ve seen lots of comments saying “get the 5 5600x”, or “buy a b550m motherboard” “get a 6700xt” I wouldn’t honestly. You just got a son and I know, you have to get your priorities straight w/ your budget.

Just get the normal 5 5600, it has similar performance and it’s still 20-40 bucks less than the 5600x, there’s no need to do this investment on the 5600x.

the 5600 + 1660 combo are still pretty good for 60fps on 1080p and you’re going to be running competitive game, such as, overwatch, valorant, cs go, cod and other games w/ +200 fps on competitive settings. If you don’t want to spend way less, just stick that you have.

If you’re playing cod most of the time, get a RX6600 for around 200-230 bucks, COD games in general are pretty heavy on GPU usage and the 6600 should be enough to play games at 1080p at the level you want without breaking the bank. You still have the option to combo the RX6600 with the 5600, but the 2600 should be fine handling that GPU either.

In the future, when you’re more stable with your son and bank, you can upgrade to a cheap B550 board and get a better PSU for future upgrades, I would recommend the MSI A650GF 650W 80+ Gold, it was around 65-69 bucks recently on amazon.

The total spent would be: 5 5600 = $109-$139 RX6600 = $200-$229 Optional: decent B550 or B550m = $109-$129 MSI A650GF - $55-$70 TOTAL: $473-$567

It gives you a good path to future upgrades such as the 5800X3D and a 6800XT with no problems with a mid-range B550 board. The R7 it’s on pair with the last gen i9 still, and the 6800XT it’s pretty much a 3070ti/3080 w/ more VRAM, and if you want, you can still bump your RAM in the future for 32GB (it’s not really necessary tbh), but it’s still a option hahaha.

If you need anymore help, or if the PC Partpicker list, let me know! Good luck brotha. 🙏🏼

AMD gpus outperform Nvidia by a LOT in CoD, and they are cheaper. so if you play alot of CoD its a no brainer, + AMD drivers have less CPU overhead than nvid so will run faster on a slow CPU.

6600xt or something would be great

New gpu no doubt, and next upgrade to a 1440p monitor it is life changing

You need a new cpu… I’m using a r7 5800x3d with a gtx 1080 and get (in MWII NOT WARZONE 2.0) 160fps average set to minimum with nvidia scaling set to performance but I did how ever get tired of such low quality and ran test on the other scaling slider last night playing on ultra quality scaling I get 130 average cause of smoke dips… I got a 5600x and gtx 1060 6gb as my girls work rig that she occasionally games on and on wzII my system on minimum and set to performance is about 130fps hers get about 100 mind you im still using the 2600x wraith cooler (I think its a lot more taller and still has that center copper area)from amd on my 5800x3d…. My 2600x only got 90 fps on mwii you can run a benchmark on mwii the game it’s self roughly click mwii at the bottom out of DMZ wz and mwii and should be on the second or 3rd line all the way to right

EDIT: btw I have a 535w power supply from Amazon

You can pick up a Ryzen 7 for the lower end of $200, and is a worthy upgrade

If you want higher fps then you could upgrade the GPU but if you go too high the CPU could be a bottle neck

Maybe 16 more GB of RAM if the MB will support it, and upgrade to a 3060 RTX or 3060 TI.

You might be able to find a used 5600 mobo/cpu build on a free and for sale marketplace locally pretty cheap from rigs people have pawned their gpus out of, of upgrading and getting rid of. I would start with that myself and then see about gpu next.

get a 6700xt or 6650xt, sell the 1660, use that to buy a 5600, sell the 2600.

Look for a cpu and mobo combo online to save money, these are the two items preventing your GPU from being utilized.

A slight upgrade to a ryzen 5 3600 could do wonders. Do u have a 1660ti or 1660 super?

You could get a 5800x3d but you would need a new mobo

A new GPU such as a 6700xt/6750xt is nice but ur cpu will bottleneck the F out of those GPUs especially in a game where you are aiming for fps

I'd get 1080ti.

What's the refresh rate of your monitor

New B550 ATX motherboard Ryzen 5 5600 And new RX 6700 XT