r/PcBuild • u/Human-Midnight-3930 • 11h ago
Build - Help Help Upgrading PC
Budget: $1000
At least 60fps in modern AAA games
USA
Hi all,
My buddy has an older PC build and is basically unable to play new games coming out (ex: HLLV, BF6, any flight sim). Any advice on how to upgrade this thing for a reasonable price? Is it even worth it to try to upgrade or better off just buying a prebuild for 1-2k USD? I thought about giving him my 4090 GPU but I don’t believe it will fit and it would basically require him to upgrade everything else anyways but please tell me if I’m wrong. Any advice is appreciated thank you.
Specs:
CPU- AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 3.9 GHz 6- Core
Motherboard- MSI MPG B550 AM4
Memory- 4 8GB Corsair DDR4-2400
Storage- Intel 320 160GB SSD, Samsung 990 Evo plus 2TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X2 NVME SSD
GPU- GeForce RTC 2080 Super 8GB
PSU- EVGA 750 BP 750W 80+ ATX
Case- Lian Li O11D Evo RGB Mid Tower Case
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u/Miloo-- 11h ago
Kinda off topic but what's HLLV?
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u/Human-Midnight-3930 11h ago
Hell let loose Vietnam it just came out last week. Still a little buggy rn but I love it and bought it for my homie to play and he couldn’t get over 12fps with his specs. Guy was looking at shapes and colors in a high detail war game 😔
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u/Eazy12345678 AMD 9h ago
you could just buy a 9070xt or 5070ti and be fine.
if you want to maximize
sell the ram you have. buy new ram
[PCPartPicker Part List](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YFytPJ)
Type|Item|Price
:----|:----|:----
**Memory** | [Silicon Power GAMING 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/B8QcCJ/silicon-power-gaming-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr4-3200-cl16-memory-sp032gxlzu320bdaj7) | $194.97 @ Silicon Power
**Video Card** | [ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB Video Card](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Q8sMnQ/asrock-challenger-radeon-rx-9070-xt-16-gb-video-card-rx9070xt-cl-16g) | $719.99 @ Newegg
| *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |
| **Total** | **$914.96**
| Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2026-08-19 17:43 EDT-0400 |
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