Build Advice Upgrading my PC ?

[BebbaTommy]

Hello guys, as the title says I want to upgrade my pc since on most of the games I play I get a maximum of 70/80 FPS and the game feel everything but fluid. Is not fluid cause of stuttering and FPS drops. I mostly play FPS, mainly MW2 and BF2042. As of now my build is the following:

-GPU: 1660 Super Pegasus
-CPU: i7-6700k
-RAM: Vegeance 16gb (8+8)
-MOBO: Asus h170 pro gaming
I have a Corsair 800w psu, bought back in 2018. My ram is ddr4, dual channel. Looking at cpu-z i can see that my dram frequency is 1064 and the uncore frequency is 3990.

Back in February I asked on the forum for a possible upgrade, but I was on a strict budget. Now I came up with a possible solution, could you guys please tell me if it is a good choice to upgrade such components? and also, how much my FPS should increase after an upgrade like that?

New components:

-MOBO: Gigabyte B660M GAMING X DDR4

-RAM: G.Skill Aegis DDR4-3200 16GB (2x 8GB) CL16

-CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F

-GPU: RX 6600 8GB

Also, please let me know if some of this components can't work together. I'm not an expert, just a PC passionate!! And if you want to suggest me another component instead of one that I chose, go ahead (just keep in mind that I've about 500/600 euros of budget)

 

[DSzymborski]

Hello guys, as the title says I want to upgrade my pc since on most of the games I play I get a maximum of 70/80 FPS and the game feel everything but fluid. Is not fluid cause of stuttering and FPS drops. I mostly play FPS, mainly MW2 and BF2042. As of now my build is the following:

-GPU: 1660 Super Pegasus
-CPU: i7-6700k
-RAM: Vegeance 16gb (8+8)
-MOBO: Asus h170 pro gaming
I have a Corsair 800w psu, bought back in 2018. My ram is ddr4, dual channel. Looking at cpu-z i can see that my dram frequency is 1064 and the uncore frequency is 3990.

Back in February I asked on the forum for a possible upgrade, but I was on a strict budget. Now I came up with a possible solution, could you guys please tell me if it is a good choice to upgrade such components? and also, how much my FPS should increase after an upgrade like that?

New components:

-MOBO: Gigabyte B660M GAMING X DDR4

-RAM: G.Skill Aegis DDR4-3200 16GB (2x 8GB) CL16

-CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F

-GPU: RX 6600 8GB

Also, please let me know if some of this components can't work together. I'm not an expert, just a PC passionate!! And if you want to suggest me another component instead of one that I chose, go ahead (just keep in mind that I've about 500/600 euros of budget)

What's the *exact* PSU? The only 800W PSU that Corsair has ever made, as far as I can tell, was the Corsair GS 800, and that hasn't been manufactured in over a decade.

 

[BebbaTommy]

What's the *exact* PSU? The only 800W PSU that Corsair has ever made, as far as I can tell, was the Corsair GS 800, and that hasn't been manufactured in over a decade.

Actually I will not be at home for the next 2 days, so I can't really tell. But I'm sure I bought it in 2018. Now the only question that comes to my mind is if is 600w or 800w. I'm so sorry for such an inconvenient 🙁
Hopefully it is not a key component to know in order to understand if my build can be a good choice!! I was planning to order the components today, so I can assemble them Monday!

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

only question that comes to my mind is if is 600w or 800w. I'm so sorry for such an inconvenient 🙁
Hopefully it is not a key component . . . . .

It is.

 

[DSzymborski]

Actually I will not be at home for the next 2 days, so I can't really tell. But I'm sure I bought it in 2018. Now the only question that comes to my mind is if is 600w or 800w. I'm so sorry for such an inconvenient 🙁
Hopefully it is not a key component to know in order to understand if my build can be a good choice!! I was planning to order the components today, so I can assemble them Monday!

There's no component more crucial to know. If it was something that shouldn't have been used in the old PC, even if nothing bad happened (to the naked eye), then it shouldn't be used in the new build. And the problem is that the only Corsair PSUs at exactly 600W or 800W that are both good and relatively recent would be Corsair SF 600s. The Corsair GS PSUs are ancient at this point and the other options are a Corsair VS (which you don't want) or a decade-old Corsair CX 600 (which you also really don't want).

 

[ilukey77]

if your using a 850w psu great
600w is to small really for spike etc etc

I think everything listed would be great except for the 6600 i would be more inclined to look at a ARC770 16gb if budget permits and a 750w psu at the very least !!

 

[Lucky_SLS]

^ Why the 16gb and spend extra 40 to 50 USD? 8gb is more than enough for 1080p.

I would also suggest the Ryzen 7600 and B650 combo with 6000mhz CL36 ram kits. ez to upgrade in the future.

 

[ilukey77]

^ Why the 16gb and spend extra 40 to 50 USD? 8gb is more than enough for 1080p.

I would also suggest the Ryzen 7600 and B650 combo with 6000mhz CL36 ram kits. ez to upgrade in the future.

because 8gb is a waste really at least 16 gives you some life span ..
agreed OP states he is playing just a few titles but if he decides to invest in a more modern game that extra 40 to 50 usd will be better spend on a more Vram card !!

i agree with the 7600 b650 make sure though you get a b650e with the pcie 5.0 x16 slot costs more but most cards will be pcie 5.0 next gen !!

down side though and why i didnt say anything about the cpu is 12400 b660 ddr4 not my go to either frankly a waste but cheaper than the AM5 platform and OP is on budget !!

im in the process of building a 7700 6800xt for a friend and i took the higher more expensive rog strix b650e board for the pcie 5.0 x16 slot ..

Alot of the cheaper b650s still use the 4.0 x16 slot i realized !!

maybe over thinking but ( and for the same reason i spent big on my rog crosshair x670e gene was i plan to keep this board till AM6 ) these things help not saying everyone can and should spend big but being retroactive when buying and looking at little things can save money later on !!

 

[Lucky_SLS]

the A770 cannot do 1440p with decent performance and i really dont see any game consuming more than 6gb in ultra settings in 1080p. even with mods, it would rarely exceed 8gb for 1080p.

I have seen modders with skyrim/witcher 3 crying, it tanks performance but those ppl use 4k texure mods for 1080p - mistake lies with the user, not the game or mod.

And if you enable FSR or XeSS, the GPU memory usage will go down even more...