Hi all! I was wondering if I could get some suggestions for an upgrade for my rig. I'm pretty sure my bottleneck is my CPU (my comp bogs down playing Total War:Warhammer3 under proton, but not at all/minimal in other games), I'm currently running:

Ryzen 5 2600x

AMD RX5600xt

16 gigs ram

Asrock Asus B450M-A

500 Watt power supply

Running Linux if that matters

So, what should I upgrade first? My budget is $500, but it's pretty flexible. I'm pretty sure I could get both a better GPU/CPU under that price.

Edit: wondering about the power supply, have had it since 2017 or so, should I upgrade? From all appearances, it's working fine, but I'm unsure about headroom with a more up to date CPU and GPU.

Also should I try to get more cores, or a faster CPU? It looks like some of the more recent AMD CPUs have better TDPs than my current CPU (95W vs 65W), but I'm not concerned about the difference between my current one and the newer, higher wattage CPUs (which look to max out at 105 or so?)

  • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    How flexible is your budget? If you simply add a zero to the end of it you can get a nice 4090 and i9 and youll be blastin zombies in 4k 60 in no time bropedo.

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      yes, but I simply don't want to fiddlefuck with Nvidia drivers on Linux. Even if I had that kind of money ( I wish!), I just want to plug in a card and have it work. Would be really cool to have the AI capabilities of an Nvidia card, but for me it's just about having something with good support rather than the most features.