Would You Upgrade from a 6600XT for a Gaming PC and at What Price Point?

LTemerarious on 07/11/2023 - 13:09
Last edited 07/11/2023 - 15:37

I built my PC during the peak of prices as I was without a gaming PC for about 18 months. I had all the parts ready and had to bite the bullet on the launch price for 6600XT.

Seeing as I have 32gb of RAM, a 5900X I want to play WH40k Darktide and BG3 and CS2 on max frames and performance without having to dial down the graphics.

Problem is I have a hard time justifying an upgrade to myself (all economic impacts considered) so looking for all thoughts and opinions to guide my decision.

Edit: Monitor is Dell S2721DGF, 1440p

Poll Options expired

  • 10
    No the 6600XT will do the job
  • 5
    Yes the GPU is the bottleneck
  • 1
    Yes if it's a bargain under $700
  • 1
    No latest gen is not worth the price
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Comments

  • Malik Nasser on 07/11/2023 - 13:33
    +4

    You might want to let people know what monitor you are using (resolution and frequency).
    BG3 is an RPG, why would you want max frames?

    • Temerarious on 07/11/2023 - 15:38

      Yep that would be a good indicator.

      I use a 1440p monitor and I included BG3 as its the latest graphic intensive game I can think of but you're right frames in that doesn't really matter.

  • jjooeell on 07/11/2023 - 13:34
    +1

    Personally I am happy bumping frames down. I picked up a whole rig this year fir $500 with a 1080ti and just play with the graphics settings for a balance of looks and frame rates.

    Generally if I’m having to really justify a purchase, I may not really need it.

  • scrimshaw on 07/11/2023 - 13:39
    +1

    Those games only ask for an RTX 3060 or Radeon 5700 XT (that's 4 year old GPU) as the recommended spec. The 6600 XT is somewhere there, so you can expect minimum 60fps, you just have to optimize the settings and don't use features like ray tracing (which is not available in BG3)

    I'd just cross the fingers and hope the games you play get official FSR 3.0 support, which enables frame generation (but at the expense of latency).

    FSR isn't perfect but it is pretty much the only option you have to squeeze as much performance out of an older generation or lower-tier graphics card. Handheld gamers using Ryzen APU's also completely rely on FSR to give them playable framerates..

    If you are still not happy even after turning the FSR switch on, then consider spending money on a GPU upgrade.

  • AustriaBargain on 07/11/2023 - 13:52
    +1

    Just wait. Things are changing so fast. If you bit the bullet on an expensive card now it won't improve those games much and there will be something much better later on for less.

  • garetz on 07/11/2023 - 14:23
    +1

    Depends on the resolution you are playing at, if its 1080p then you are fine.

    if you want 1440p apparently the best bang for buck atm is a 4070ti

  • jk82 on 07/11/2023 - 14:33
    +1

    What's your budget??!

    I say YOLO just do it… go grab a 4080 or something. may as well - you've got a kick ass CPU, and with a better GPU you'd have a killer rig that would blitz any game at high settings 144fps+

    I bought the 4080 on launch and don't regret it for a minute. sure I could have waited a few months and saved a bunch, but I wanted to spend those months gaming on a high end rig and I'm so glad I did. You can grab one now for $1900 or I guess you could wait for the next price drop… whatever.
    https://www.umart.com.au/product/pny-geforce-rtx-4080-tf-ver…

    I know everyone else will say "they shouldn't be that expensive" "HODL for sub $1000, vote with your wallet, f** nvidia blah blah whatever. My point is - if you can afford it and it makes you happy/enjoy playing games more then just do it! :)

  • Ozbar Gain on 07/11/2023 - 15:11
    +2

    Would You Upgrade from a 6600XT for a Gaming PC and at What Price Point?

    Yes, in this hypothetical, if money was not an option, why wouldn't I??

    • AustriaBargain on 07/11/2023 - 16:36

      If money was not an option I'd buy one of those big sphere things that Vegas has and play my games using a supercomputer like OpenAI uses. Actually I'd have thousands of people dress up and act out the games with me as the main character.

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