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View submission: Simple Questions - December 02, 2020
I would definitely agree on the fact that the CPU would cause quite a bottleneck. Although it does boost to 3.8Ghz, it has an old achitecture and it uses DDR3 memory.
I think that you need more than just a CPU upgrade, and would also need Motherboard and ram upgrade.
Don't forget that the RTX 3070 is roughly the same performance as a 2080TI.
Sorry to bring quite negative news, but for such a GPU and such an old existing system, I will just build a whole new PC.
Now as for recommendations, i would go for AMD 3000series since they are good value and have very descent performance.
Comment by Lk11122 at 02/12/2020 at 20:38 UTC
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Thanks. If I were to replace motherboard cpu and ram the only difference between that and building a whole new system is keeping my hard drives and psu - is it that simple? As in assuming I bought those could I just plug my existing hard drives in and not have to reinstall windows etc or would that cause issues? Never built a pc from scratch before.