Not OP but that’s my advice too.
Comment on 4070 or 6800XT? Upgrade CPU or nay?
iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 11 months ago…right you are. PCIe3 indeed. I missed that. So your advice would be to upgrade the GPU only, then at some other time upgrade all the rest and install the already upgraded GPU, right?
3laws@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Yep. I’m in the process of doing similar at the moment; went from an RX580 to an RX6650XT on an i5-9600. I could theoretically grab a secondhand i7 or i9, but I’d still be bottlenecking at the bus, and fixing that would necessitate a complete (expensive) rebuild. So the GPU is kind of a stop-gap while I build out the core components, then the GPU goes in the new rig when its complete. The 9600 is a fair bit newer than yours tho, so maybe the 7700 isn’t that bad an idea in the meantime if the finances work out.