I’m upgrading from a 4770 to a 9600. This is my budget free living room PC build. I’m trying to keep everything even bottleneck wise.

Helldovers is starting to chug like I put water in my cars gas tank. My Gtx1060 is…old.

What GPU should I upgrade to? I was looking at 2080s for around $200.

Does anyone have any better ideas?

  • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Does it have to be the 9600?

    Yep. The 9600k is sitting on my desk right now. Motherboard and ram in the mail.

    I’d guess you’re probably not buying new but the new prices of the 9600 and 10600KF are very similar on PCPartPicker.

    Got it for free from my nephew.

    If you can’t make it work for the B580 then a 2080 for $200 would offer excellent price to performance, though you may find yourself limited by the 8 GB VRAM before too long. If you can find a 6700 XT for no more than $260 or a 2080 Ti for no more than $275 that would offer about the same price to performance as the B580 (based on TechPowerUp’s database of relative GPU performance). Knock about $30-40 off those prices to have price to performance on par with a $200 2080.

    I’m stuck with the 9600k as it was free. I’m paying $90 total for the mobo, and ram. That’s practically half a computer for $90 bucks. Adding a CPU into the mix would make this upgrade a non starter. Plus it’s 30% improvment just in CPU upgrade. Id love to get a reasonably priced 2080!

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Yeah it’s hard to beat a free 5 generation CPU upgrade, good luck to you on the GPU hunt. You could also consider an RX 6650 XT or RX 7600 for around the same price as a 2080, TechPowerUp has them all within 1-2% of each other in relative performance. The 4060 is right in that same ballpark performance-wise, but obviously it’s going to be a lot harder to find one in that low-$200s budget.

      Again, those are all gonna be 8 GB cards. If you’re looking for more VRAM and the 6700 XT or 2080 Ti at the prices I mentioned before are out of the budget, you could also look for a 1080 Ti, TechPowerUp has it at about 90% of the performance of a 2080.

      • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I bought the wrong motherboard…so I’m out of budget for a GPU now. So I’ll be saving up for a whole new system.

        I ordered the right mobo but I think this thread smacked some sense into me. I need to just do a full upgrade.