Hello,

I have been upgrading this PC for years now, and the CPU is way behind. However I’m not sure what to put in. I planned on sticking with AMD, I’m running Linux Mint, and I want to spend $200-300. My monitor is capable of 165 FPS but nothing I play tends to reach that (Counter-Strike 2, Doom: The Dark Ages, Control, other big-budget games). So I’d like something that could help get this thing up to speed.

I’m also interested to hear what other components ought to be prioritized for upgrading in the future.

Thanks

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    1·
    10 hours ago

    Thats probably fine and you dont NEED to upgrade. But if you want to you could upgrade your cpu to either a 5600 or 5600x. They’re pretty cheap these days.

  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Not too far from my current config. I am running a 5600G and then upgraded to a Radeon RX 9060 XT. Glad I got that all done before the end of the year. It’s gaming just fine with minimal effort on Fedora

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Yeah the CPU is going to be your bottleneck there. I would go with the most powerful AM4 processor since you’re kinda stuck with AM4, which would be the 5800X3D.

    That will last you through another GPU upgrade as well.

    • Robin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      The AM4 X3Ds are sold out in most places and really expensive, even on the second hand market.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    62·
    2 days ago

    Upgrading your CPU to anything from the last 3 generations is going to require a motherboard and memory also. It’ll be very hard to do that under $300.

    My advice at this point is to keep saving up until RAM prices drop. Then you’ll have more money and things will be cheaper. You’ll be able to get something on AM5 then.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      He could upgrade to the ryzen 5000 series with that setup and do just fine. AM4 has long legs. With the RAM crisis, AM5 is out of reach and, I think, will be for years.

    • SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      On a whim recently I upgraded the ram to this 32GB actually, from 16GB. Paid $115 and as of today it’s still climbing, at $300.

      Thanks for the advice, the CPU upgrade is more of a want than a need anyhow.

  • AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    You’ll have to make sure your BIOS is updated to be compatible with a new CPU. It’s a PITA, but you’ll need to go to Asrock’s site and scroll through the different versions and figure out what your board can support. I also have a cheap old Asrock B450M board. Started with a 5600, now running a 5700x. So Asrock can be good about updates.

  • mongooseofrevenge@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    If you want something right now, you can swap that CPU out with a ryzen 7 5600x. It lolls like Amazon has it listed for $220. According to User Benchmarks you could see a 30-40% performance increase over what you have. Unfortunately with the smaller board you can’t really add more ram. Any upgrade to DDR5 is going to be way too expensive.

    You could save and wait for things to cool down but who knows when that will be. Once it does happen you should swap the processor, board, and ram. You can also keep an eye on the secondhand market to see if something pops up at a decent price.

    • SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      Cool, thanks for the tips. For secondhand is there anything other than eBay to watch? My locale doesn’t have much for used PC parts.