I built this pc I think 5 years ago and it’s starting to really struggle to keep up. It can’t even hold 30fps in remnant 2 on the lowest graphic settings. Please help! What parts can I keep and what should I upgrade to? I haven’t kept up very well recently with new pc hardware.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT MOTHERBOARD: X570 I Aorus Pro Wifi RAM: 16 gigs
Have you looked at your gpu/cpu usage to see whats really bottlenecking? Monitored all your temps to see if your thermal paste has given up and you’re thermal throttling? The 3600 is older but not a slouch, it should be fine, and I’d also expect a 5700xt to be doing much better than you describe unless you’re running at 1440p/4k native. It’s not that old.
Use software like HWmon, Afterburner, or HWinfo64 (sensors only) to check your max temps on CPU and GPU cores while gaming.
Also consider doing a complete wipe and fresh reinstall of Windows 10. I always have to do that every 2 to 3 years to keep things running fresh because it somehow always turns into a mess.
Upgrade paths:
You can easily drop a zen 3 5000-series cpu into your current motherboard as long as your BIOS is updated. The Ryzen 7 5800x3d is considered the second best gaming chip of all time currently, and can be had for around $300 right now. That alone will easily, easily handle pretty much all games for at least the next 5-8 years. It’s seriously powerful.On the gpu side… life is weird, and will continue to be weird. I cannot recommend any of Nvidia’s offerings in good conscience just because of their monopolistic tendencies. If you’re trying to stick around the 5700xt’s $400 msrp, your options are going to be either the RTX4060Ti from Nvidia, or the 6700xt/6750xt from AMD. Both of which trade blows in most 1080p games, but the AMD card comes in a little under $400 since it’s older and the 4060ti will run over $400 because actual msrp models are often scarce and Nvidia is a monopolistic greedy fucking corporation. However with the Nvidia card you get shit like DLSS and a little bit of raytracing (although acceptable RT performance in a 60ti card is still very much NOT there).
AMD has yet to launch their ~$400 offerings in the RDNA3 7000 series lineup, although they’re supposed to be coming “soon™️”. So if you’re OK with waiting a few more months, the 7700xt could be quite attractive.
I’ve had some issues with my temps seeming a bit high pretty much since I built this pc, but I don’t think it was ever enough to significantly effect performance. I just assumed my case being a bit smaller and not having the best air flow caused it. I like the sound of Ryzen 7 5800x3d. Once I confirm that I didn’t fuck up somewhere along the way I might look into getting that, then grabbing the 7700xt further down the road. Thank you for the suggestions!
I have basically the same specs (a little more ram and cheaper mobo but the same GPU and CPU), and I have yet to find a game I can’t get to run at 60fps on my 3440x1440 ultrawide. Granted I haven’t played Remnant 2, the most demanding games I’ve run recently are cyberpunk and Red Dead 2 (while both drop farms they can maintain 60, most of the time at high settings). I’m really curious what resolution you are running at and what others games performance looks like.
I have a 32in 1440p monitor. Running cyberpunk was a struggle for me it could maintain 40 fps pretty consistently but had some frame drops when big stuff was going down.
Sorry that I’m not really answering your initial question. But if I were you I would double check that you aren’t running into any thermal issues.
No worries I appreciate the input. If I can get the performance I want out of this thing without dropping a bunch of cash I’m all for it. I’ve always thought it seemed to run a bit warm, but I didn’t think it was enough to noticeably hurt my gaming.
