My current pc specs are:
- Asus Prime H310M-K r2.0 (pcie 3.0 x16 max)
- I5-9400f
- Deep cool i35 cooler
- AMD Radeon Rx 580
- Kingston ddr4 1x16gb
- Corsair TX650
- Gigabyte G27Q monitor
- And two ssd’s and a HDD
I have two options I have a budget of about 400 euros and I am thinking of upgrading as the PC is getting a little unresponsive in general use and gaming. Leaning towards option 1 as the cpu is almost always above 50% usage at idle as I use my PC as a server for jellyfin and some other services ,but with them off in-game the cpu is almost at 100% in tf2 and pretty much any other game and the gpu is at 70% unless in cs2 ,then if the quality is set any higher than low it is a literal slideshow.
Option 1:
- MSI Pro b650-s wifi
- AMD Ryzen 7600
- Crucial/Kingston ddr5 2x8gb
Option 2:
- Nvidia rtx 3060/3070 with broken HDMI output (both used)
Requirements:
- Motherboard Atx
- Cpu am5
- Must be available in Lithuania/EU for used parts only skelbiu.lt or eneba.lt
For around 400 euros I’d consider building a dedicated server based around a NUC or similar for running the media server, your current computer should not be struggling with the games you’ve listed
If I would upgrade I could just use the old parts + PSU to make a server (I don’t transcode so I probably wouldn’t need a gpu)
I think this should be your priority, however you go about it, 50% at idle is your problem
Probably because I am using my PC as a server which has some torrent software in total around 6 always on docker services
Yes exactly, offload that before you think about upgrades to the main rig
The only thing that I can offload docker services are a RPI zero or a Toshiba satellite from 2005-2007 and you noticed Lithuania a nuc is way more rare here so a nuc costs about the same as an upgrade so it would be really stupid to offload to a nuc.
Well it doesn’t have to be exactly a NUC, just in my country you could probably get a pretty decent one capable of transcoding 2nd hand for less than €300.
And the main thing is you’re wasting half your compute capacity on your media server processes. There’s no single upgrade you will be able to make to your current computer, under €400, that will have a bigger impact than putting the server on its own dedicated hardware.
Where do you think the parts go after an upgrade? And I can just pre transcode
If you don’t care about transcoding, you could probably use a raspberry pi 4 or 5.
Fair point if you actually intend to move that workload to the remaining parts after an upgrade, but I can’t stress enough, there’s no point in trying to avoid putting the server workload on different hardware.
Your existing rig should be doing TF2 at 200+fps