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?)
For gaming, a 5800X3D will make every game run fantastically for some graphics settings, which is good to have. Also not very demanding on power, maybe a little more than 2600 but not by much. Will stay capable for quite a while, and keep the motherboard/RAM going too. Same is true for a 5600 as a cheaper option, but not by nearly as good. There's talk that a 5600X3D might happen soon too, which would be ideal and maybe worth waiting on.
Adding more RAM up to 32GB would do a bit too, especially if you have other stuff running in the background. Doubling the RAM you have should be pretty cheap by now.
Graphics there is no end to how much you can spend to upgrade.
You don't have to upgrade everything at once necessarily.