my pc gaming specs : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Gm7fDj but i play fortnite and marvel and other , i wanna ugrade am5 without bottleneck with rtx 4070 super , fine 1080p/1440p .
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welcome should i upgrade Mobo am4 to am5 / cpu zen 4 to zen 5 / ram ddr4 to ddr5 ? next year 2026 then buy new monitor 1440p 2027/2026. my pc gaming
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| Motherboard | Asus TUF 990FX Sabertooth R2 2901 Bios |
| Cooling | Scythe Ashura, 2×BitFenix 230mm Spectre Pro LED (Blue,Green), 2x BitFenix 140mm Spectre Pro LED |
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| Storage | Samsung 840 Pro 256GB, WD Velociraptor 1TB |
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You can't avoid bottlenecks. They are an inherent side effect of a PC being made up of multiple parts, and performance not being infinite. There will always be a slowest link in the chain, and since loads are not static and identical, you can't define a particular part as the constant bottleneck.
Instead of worrying about bottlenecks, worry about "am I satisfied with the current level of performance". If the answer is yes, then no action is needed. If the answer is no, then you ask "where do I want more performance", and then you analyze what part is the limiting factor in that situation, and upgrade that part.
My merely personal rough rule of thumb is this. For those already on AM4, moving to AM5 doesn't make much sense yet (Zen 6 may be when this changes more) unless you're going to one of the most performant CPUs on the platform (read as, Ryzen 9 x950 or any of the X3Ds). Why? It's because the vanilla Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs don't really outperform (in gaming, anyway) the options you have on AM4 by enough (if any!) to warrant changing the motherboard, RAM, and CPU... instead of just the CPU (read as, 5700X3D).
I think a Zen 3 CPU is fine for an RTX 4070/Super as well, but that's your decision to make, not mine.
Personally, if I was to make any change with that hardware, it would be the SSD. The Crucial BX500 is a low end SATA SSD without DRAM, and you really want your OS on something more performant (if it's SATA, you want DRAM, but you may as well move to NVMe, and you could carry it forward through future changes so it's not a waste either). The current one is not terrible... but if I had money to burn, that's the first place I'd look.
The RAM is also a bit slow, but not bad enough that I'd replace it. If anything, that lends credence to a 5700X3D change being worthwhile. The X3D CPUs care less about slower RAM, whereas the vanilla models incur a bit more of a performance loss.
Instead of worrying about bottlenecks, worry about "am I satisfied with the current level of performance". If the answer is yes, then no action is needed. If the answer is no, then you ask "where do I want more performance", and then you analyze what part is the limiting factor in that situation, and upgrade that part.
My merely personal rough rule of thumb is this. For those already on AM4, moving to AM5 doesn't make much sense yet (Zen 6 may be when this changes more) unless you're going to one of the most performant CPUs on the platform (read as, Ryzen 9 x950 or any of the X3Ds). Why? It's because the vanilla Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs don't really outperform (in gaming, anyway) the options you have on AM4 by enough (if any!) to warrant changing the motherboard, RAM, and CPU... instead of just the CPU (read as, 5700X3D).
I think a Zen 3 CPU is fine for an RTX 4070/Super as well, but that's your decision to make, not mine.
Personally, if I was to make any change with that hardware, it would be the SSD. The Crucial BX500 is a low end SATA SSD without DRAM, and you really want your OS on something more performant (if it's SATA, you want DRAM, but you may as well move to NVMe, and you could carry it forward through future changes so it's not a waste either). The current one is not terrible... but if I had money to burn, that's the first place I'd look.
The RAM is also a bit slow, but not bad enough that I'd replace it. If anything, that lends credence to a 5700X3D change being worthwhile. The X3D CPUs care less about slower RAM, whereas the vanilla models incur a bit more of a performance loss.
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| Processor | Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
| Motherboard | ASRock B650E Taichi Lite |
| Cooling | Deepcool LS520 (240mm) |
| Memory | G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 |
| Video Card(s) | Powercolor 6800XT Red Dragon (16 gig) |
| Storage | 2TB Crucial P5 Plus SSD, 80TB spinning rust in a NAS |
| Display(s) | MSI MPG321URX QD-OLED (32", 4k, 240hz), Samsung 32" 4k |
| Case | Coolermaster HAF 500 |
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| Power Supply | Corsair HX850 |
| Mouse | Logitech G502X lightspeed |
| Keyboard | Logitech G915 TKL tactile |
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If I read this correctly you want to move from the parts listed to an AM5 build.
Go a mid range B650 board if you can find one or a B850 and get a 7600/7600X (they're generally on par with a 5800X3D and that's entry to the AM5 platform) and 32 gig (2x 16) of DDR 6000 CL30
Grab any modest nvme (as a system drive, aim for 2tb) SSD with write speeds into or above around 3 gig a second, slower is fine if you get a deal but chasing a super faster SSD is largely useless (you'll hardly tell the difference except in a benchmark)
Go a mid range B650 board if you can find one or a B850 and get a 7600/7600X (they're generally on par with a 5800X3D and that's entry to the AM5 platform) and 32 gig (2x 16) of DDR 6000 CL30
Grab any modest nvme (as a system drive, aim for 2tb) SSD with write speeds into or above around 3 gig a second, slower is fine if you get a deal but chasing a super faster SSD is largely useless (you'll hardly tell the difference except in a benchmark)