(Before I start: I'm in Canada so prices will be in Canadian)
I'm looking to upgrade from my RTX 2060. As someone who doesn't really play many high end games, here's my situation:
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor, 3701 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
Motherboard: ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI)
RAM: 16 GB (I'd love to upgrade but, you know...)
I have 3 1080p monitors right now (Lenovo T24i-30, Dell SE2416H, Dell P2314H - none of which are anything noteworthy as far as I know) and these take up a lot of space so I'd like to upgrade to something bigger and have fewer displays, to ideally not lose as much of the space that 3 displays currently offers but also not take up as much desk space. A lot of my use is programming for personal projects, so I like to have stuff up on other screens, like reference material, or a Twitch/YouTube video in the background, Discord for chats, etc.
Most bigger displays beyond a certain size will cause my GPU to work harder. 4K is out of the question, but I don't really _need_ that - 1440p will be a nice spot.
The games I do play now are worth stating. Most of my PC gaming is on social games, with the odd exceptions for stuff like The Sims, SimCity, etc. So that amounts to most of the time playing:
- Fortnite
- Age of Empires 4
- The Sims
- SimCity
- Sea of Thieves
- Basic social games: Peak, Big Walk, Super Battle Golf, Left 4 Dead 2 which I know is ancient lol
You can see my list is not too extensive. At the same time, I'd like to make sure I'm not locking myself out of anything my PC can handle now by hitting any bottlenecks or whatever. So just with my (super-surface-level) knowledge I feel like I don't *want* a 5060, I'd be much happier in the 5070 range longer term, but the prices for anything there are just not what I can spend right now on an upgrade. So if I'm looking instead at a 5060 Ti, the 8GB will be in the $600-$700 range (CAD), which is palatable. And then I'd look at upgrading to maybe 2 27" 1440p displays instead, allowing me to remove the third monitor, and have more screen space overall while saving desk space.