Will it be worth upgrade or better to buy new?

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Hello guys,

Have been using 5600x +3060ti fe , crucial ballistix 32gb ddr 4 3600mhz cl16 and b550 rog strix and nzxt c650w motherboard for my rendering and modeling works now i feel the delay and extended time it takes to render in software like lumion.

So i was thinking on buying a R9 5900x + 5070 gpu and 850w psu (not sure this combo can run with 650 w have around 2 m.2 2 sata ssd and 1 hdd ) so this upgrade will cost me around 1 Lakhs approx. Do you this it is wise ? Or building new pc would be less ? While building new pc i might not be able to afford more than 1.3 lakhs please point me towards right direction thank you in advance

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Considering you’re already on AM4, no point in switching platforms. Max out your current build, it’ll have a better resale value in future when you switch. You should go for a CPU+GPU upgrade. Mind you the 5070 has 12 gigs of vram which isn’t a significant jump from the 3060 Ti 8 gigs. If Lumion takes VRAM into consideration you should compare the 5060 Ti 16 gigs with the 5070 12 gigs.

But yeah

CPU GPU

PSU

RAM

That should be your upgrade path.

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First list out the softwares you going to use.

See the benchmarks

If it is gpu dependent put more money into gpu.

Cpu dependent means get new Am5 or intel pc.

It all comes down to how much performance you can live with it.

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Wont recommend this considering current state of RAM market, stay in DDR4 zone.

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Thats a valid point.

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bro first of all thanks for the reply

softwares i use are :

  1. lumion ( very gpu intensive gets laggy when i load high polygon model its struggles mainly bcs of ram and gpu both almost reach 100% usage makes the pc unusable when im rendering something )
  2. sketchup ( more cpu intensive i would consider my pc performing okay )
  3. d5 render again same a lumion but lighter
  4. photoshop
  5. premier pro for editing walkthroughs

so these are the softwares which i use main issue is gpu only but if i upgrade gpu i feel 5070 potential might hindered because of 5600x and multi tasking is also very important to me as i usually watch something on one screen and work one 2 of the softwares listed above

i feel like i need to add on more 32gigs so that i have headroom for all this tasks together

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yeah seems like that but do you feel 5060ti would give me better performance because of extra 4 gbs ??

and im not able to find any 16 gigs 3600mhz cl16 ram in the market so if i go for cl16 3200mhz that would limit my older rams to same speeds of the newer lower speed one right ??

and im thinking to buy used rams and psu just to save some cost

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true and i really think i would have to compromise on lot if i build complete pc ? bcs my budget might not allow that i guess

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and lot of reviewers say 5070 is bad only close to 4070ti so do i consider 4070ti or 5070 is better ??

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Get a used 3090 if possible, will cost a bit less with double the vram and is still a workhorse.

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i agree but im very skeptical about buying used gpus, just because im afraid what might happen

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Buy from someone here on TE who has good marketplace ratings. Post in the wanting to buy section.

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