Looking at the upgrade options Focusing on improvements Evaluating potential enhancements
Looking at the upgrade options Focusing on improvements Evaluating potential enhancements
Hey everyone, like stater in the title- it is just a consideration that I would like some more opinions on. I do not play a lot of graphically demanding games: Witcher 3, Diablo 3, World of Warcraft and Overwatch 2 are what I mostly play. However I am considering getting Final Fantasy 7 Remake, and when Diablo 4 and Elder Scrolls 6 comes out I will get that. - AMD RyZen 1700x - 16 GB DDR4 RAM (something something speed) - AMD Vega 64 (I believe it’s called) I can answer in more detail if there is anything I’m missing. Essentially, is it needed to upgrade? Will it run the games I want without issue? If an upgrade is reccomended, what do you think I should upgrade to? I don’t need to do any 4k gaming, my eyes are not good enough for that I think I would set my budget to probably around 1000 USD. Thanks so much for any help! Salutations from Norway
Play the titles and check the performance. FFVII works well on a vega 64 / gtx 1080 card, while the other games are still in development.
It’s quite a tough argument to claim I wasn’t expecting FF7R would work on older cards—especially when the paycheck arrives.
If you're using the MSI B450 Gaming plus, you could switch to the 5800X3D by just updating the BIOS. You'd still be limited to PCIe Gen 3, but that shouldn't be a big issue—especially with a 4090 slot. This upgrade would give you a much stronger CPU to pair with the new GPU later.
Additionally, I’ve looked at the Ryzen 7 5700X and 5800X3D, and the main distinction is increased power consumption and a larger cache size. For someone just playing games, what’s the purpose of the CPU cache?
And even with your Vega 64, you could notice better performance in lighter titles such as Overwatch. Upgrading from a 1800X to a 5600X when the new BIOS for your X370 was released gave a noticeable boost, especially with my GTX 1080 at that time. The Ryzen 1000 didn’t perform very well in single-threaded tasks...
I think I could probably do that in roughly three hours—just to verify my motherboard and maybe check the RAM speed.