Question Looking for upgrade

[darthfiraxia]

Hi

I'm looking to upgrade my graphics card from my current Asus Radeon RX560 4GB GDDR5.

I currently have a Gigabyte AB350- Gaming motherboard, Ryzen 7 2700, 24GB DDR4 2400mhz, OCZ 650w PSU and running Windows 10 64bit.

I have quite a limited budget of £140/$170

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

[geofelt]

With your budget, You can buy RX6500XT, ARC380, or GTX1650 class cards.
I would generally look for stronger or you may be disappointed if you do not see magical results.

To see if you really can take advantage of a stronger graphics card, run this test:
Run YOUR games, but lower your resolution and eye candy.
This makes the graphics card loaf a bit.
If your FPS increases, it indicates that your cpu is strong enough to drive a better graphics configuration.
If your FPS stays the same, you are likely more cpu limited.

 

[DSzymborski]

I'm afraid the budget isn't sufficient. Any GPU that's a significant upgrade would require a PSU refresh; OCZ hasn't even existed except as a Kioxia sub-brand for about a decade and a lot of the OCZ PSUs -- you unfortunate did not specify -- just weren't particularly good.

 

[darthfiraxia]

Got hold of a GTX 1070 for £125/$150 🧀

 

[DSzymborski]

Got hold of a GTX 1070 for £125/$150 🧀

And what PSU did you get?

 

[darthfiraxia]

I haven't got one. My PSU hasn't let me down yet and I've had it for a least 10 years.

 

[DSzymborski]

I haven't got one. My PSU hasn't let me down yet and I've had it for a least 10 years.

That's an absolutely terrible idea. "Hasn't let you down" doesn't mean it's working properly; it's the equivalent of saying "eating a pound of bacon every day hasn't killed me yet so I'll keep doing it!" That it's 10 years old is a bad thing, not a feature.

But everyone has the right to do risky, irresponsible things as long as it only affects themselves, so all I can do is wish you luck. Hopefully we won't see you posting in a couple months wondering why your GPU isn't working.

 

[John Chesterfield]

I haven't got one. My PSU hasn't let me down yet and I've had it for a least 10 years.

Stupid move. At 10 years old it's ripe for failing.

Don't come here for advice if you're not prepared to follow correct advice.

OCZ power supplies were disastrous even when new, you now have a ticking time bomb by continuing to use it.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Agreed replace that power supply pronto unless you want to potentially fry some components.

 

[darthfiraxia]

OK. Then what PSU do you guys recommend? I have an extremely limited budget

 

[Kona45primo]

Wait until your budget is less limited. With a B350 you could bump up to a 5000 series CPU , 6700 GPU, faster ram... But a good power supply is required.. Get your side hustle on figure $500 and you'll have the budget to quadruple+ the performance