1080p PC upgrade (CPU and motherboard)

[Rayleigh94]

Hello everyone, I'm planning to upgrade a friend's PC.

He wants it for gaming exclusively at 1080p. Could you provide a CPU and motherboard recommendation as he plans to keep the rest of the components?

Any proposal to avoid the bottleneck

His current setup is:

Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 6600 8GB

Memory: 16 GB DDR4 RAM

Motherboard: MSI MSI B150M

CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 3.0GHz

Proposed upgrade:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz Box

Motherboard: MSI B550 Gaming Gen3



Best regards

 

[Calenhad]

I'd say go for it. Imho those are sensible upgrades.

 

[DarkDreams]

I agree, a 5600 is a very good choice here. Alternatively a 12400(F) with a B660/B760 DDR4 motherboard is about the same for gaming performance, so I'd take whichever of the 2 combos is cheaper in your area.

 

[GerKNG]

i'd try to get another 40-50 bucks together and buy a 5700X

 

[PLAfiller]

Not thread high-jacking, but I am following this one couse I am in the same boat. Current system in my signature, I was wondering for CPU and MB only as I can re-use everything else. However, I was looking at 13th gen Intel, but just a motherboard H770 (DDR4 option) + i3 is like 600 EUR.....yeah not happenin. And not a fancy motherboard too.

 

[wNotyarD]

I agree, a 5600 is a very good choice here. Alternatively a 12400(F) with a B660/B760 DDR4 motherboard is about the same for gaming performance, so I'd take whichever of the 2 combos is cheaper in your area.

Agreed. Also, if available on a nice deal a 13400(F) with DDR4 B660/B760 is an awesome proposition as well.

 

[Rayleigh94]

Agreed. Also, if available on a nice deal a 13400(F) with DDR4 B660/B760 is an awesome proposition as well.

Thanks for the proposals, in the end I have managed to convince him to mount a CPU: I5 13400(F) with a B760 motherboard.

 

[Lost_Troll]

Thanks for the proposals, in the end I have managed to convince him to mount a CPU: I5 13400(F) with a B760 motherboard.

If you can swing the extra 25.00$, I would go with the non-F version. The iGPU video is nice if you want to repurpose the CPU/board for another PC that will not need external graphics. The stock fan that comes with the F and non-F versions works well but can be a bit loud. I also would keep the PL settings close to stock (I used these settings with my 12700F PL1 65 and PL2 250 with a TA 56), as some motherboards will default the power settings to 288 or unlimited which will cause the CPU to throttle and the heatsink fan to run high.

If you go with a B760 DDR4 board, I would go with DDR4-3600 in a 16Gb or 32Gb (Preferred) Kit. For DDR5, I would go with DDR5-6000 in a 32Gb Kit.

 

[Deleted member 232534]

Thanks for the proposals, in the end I have managed to convince him to mount a CPU: I5 13400(F) with a B760 motherboard.

imo 12400+b760 is ok, but if you can afford 13400 better is 7600+b650