Question looking for upgrades on a budget

[shayn100]

i currently have
I5 10400F cpu
ASRock H470M-ITX/AC Supports 10th Gen Intel Core processors (Socket 1200) motherboard
G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB Kit DDR4 3200MHz RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB,
2.5tb ssd

what would be good upgrades for this system. im a student so would buy parts one by one, could anyone recommend new parts for upgrades?
playing mainly games like rust,gw2,valorant

 

[--SID--]

Probably the GPU.
What brand and model case and PSU do you have?

 

[shayn100]

Probably the GPU.
What brand and model case and PSU do you have?

PowerCool 650W Semi Modular Power Supply
SilverStone PS15 PRO Mini-Tower Case

 

[DavidM012]

PowerCool isn't on the PSU tier list - searching the forums reveals this thread - garbage quality.

The most budget PSU I know that you could probably get away with is a Tier C 650w Evga GQ .

This chart is a bit less stringent than the PSU Tier list once you read between the lines but it does offer a fairly comprehensive list of GPUs.

What you can buy today new probably an rx 6600 is a worthwhile upgrade from a 1060 3gb for example: Comparison on GPU monkey

However there isn't a lot in between unless you can get a second hand rx 5700 but people around here generally prefer to avoid the second hand gpu minefield of ex mining cards or limited to non-existent warranties and so on - you could get anything maybe a rx 580 is better than a 3gb 1060, or a 1660 super - can you get anything good at 'budget' pssh gpus and budget lately haven't been synonyms.

I think iGPu's on some cpus like the 5600g is about the level of a 1050 or 1060 anyway don't know all the details only whenever I look at the market I see £300 entry level cards or £100-£250 second hand cards.

The days when you could get a real 'budget' card like an r7 270 for under £75 are history - 2 of 'em in xFire was just about enough to run some games think I played elite dangerous on them years ago but it wasn't great.

 

[Nighthawk117]

I think iGPu's on some cpus like the 5600g is about the level of a 1050 or 1060 anyway don't know all the details only whenever I look at the market I see £300 entry level cards or £100-£250 second hand cards.

Only the laptop based Radeon 680M in AMD's Ryzen 7 6000 CPU's is in that sort of performance category. The iGPU in the 5600G is nowhere close.

 

[DavidM012]

nothing that's a 'budget upgrade'. 'barely playable' on vega 30fps 1080p low settings, so the gpu needs to go higher anyway and none of that is 'budget' in the sense of the word that 'budget' used to be.

practically 'barely playable' is all the same to me.