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I haven't upgraded my PC in a long time and I've always been very frugal when it comes to getting PC parts. While I don't think I'll need to upgrade for some time still, I'm curious what y'alls opinion would be on a relatively cheap ($300>) upgrade would be, if one exists at all. Preferably AMD but I've heard linux support for Nvidia has improved quite a bit since I last had one.

Thanks to @B0NK3RS@lazysoci.al I realize it would help if I shared the rest of my specs: an MSI AM4 motherboard (I don’t have the model but I believe it’s a B450 or B550 tomahawk), 24 gigs of ram, and a Ryzen 3600 X cpu.

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[–] OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lmao that would be important wouldn’t it. I have an MSI AM4 motherboard with a ryzen 3600x and an 24 gigs of ddr4 ram.

[–] B0NK3RS@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. Other people say 6700XT is possible and it's a good card and will pair nicely with your PC. I'm not in the US so can't comment on price but even a RX6600XT/6650XT 8GB is great for 1080p as an alternative.

[–] OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah I’ll consider both, I don’t see myself going above 1080p anytime soon, but more future-proofing with the higher VRAM is a nice idea.