Will this spec handle 4k gaming

[Timjord10]

Hi all, this is my current spec

Processor (CPU)	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard	ASUS® TUF GAMING B550-PLUS WiFi (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)	16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card	6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 - HDMI, DP - VR Ready!
1st M.2 SSD Drive	1TB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2000 MB/R, 1100 MB/W)
1st Storage Drive	1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive	NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply	CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Im looking to upgrade to a rtx 3080ti, will my current spec handle the 3080ti plus is it powerful enough to handle 4k gaming?

 

[sck451]

Yes, that setup will cope with a 3080 Ti and that would make 4K gaming very possible.

That said, I wouldn't recommend the 3080 Ti. You'd get much better value from the plain old 3080, or conceivably from the 7900 XT that AMD are about to launch.

 

[Timjord10]

Yes, that setup will cope with a 3080 Ti and that would make 4K gaming very possible.

That said, I wouldn't recommend the 3080 Ti. You'd get much better value from the plain old 3080, or conceivably from the 7900 XT that AMD are about to launch.

Thanks for reply, and sound i shall look into just the 3080, will be massive upgrade from my 2060 anyway! Ive been looking into 1440p and 4k, would this setup with 3080 handle 4k well enough for it to be worth it?

 

[sck451]

Thanks for reply, and sound i shall look into just the 3080, will be massive upgrade from my 2060 anyway! Ive been looking into 1440p and 4k, would this setup with 3080 handle 4k well enough for it to be worth it?

Sure. At 4K you're mostly going to be GPU-limited in almost all scenarios, and your system will definitely cope with it.

Personally I'd look into going for 1440p rather than 4K as there's much better value to be found there. (A 3070 is splendid, a 3080 would be amazing, perhaps even overkill.)

At some point, if I were you I'd also spend £90-ish on a much faster boot SSD, and then repurpose your existing SSD to use solely for game storage instead, but that's not a necessary thing, merely a "nice to have".

 

[Timjord10]

Sure. At 4K you're mostly going to be GPU-limited in almost all scenarios, and your system will definitely cope with it.

Personally I'd look into going for 1440p rather than 4K as there's much better value to be found there. (A 3070 is splendid, a 3080 would be amazing, perhaps even overkill.)

At some point, if I were you I'd also spend £90-ish on a much faster boot SSD, and then repurpose your existing SSD to use solely for game storage instead, but that's not a necessary thing, merely a "nice to have".

Okay cool, ill look into these options further cheers, not looking to buy till new year, 1440p would be great compared to my current setup but 4k keeps catching my attention haha
And okay, what does that mean haha? Is the HDD better than the SSD? And how do i find a faster SSD? Im kinda newish to this so tryna learn sorry

 

[CMP01]

Sure. At 4K you're mostly going to be GPU-limited in almost all scenarios, and your system will definitely cope with it.

Personally I'd look into going for 1440p rather than 4K as there's much better value to be found there. (A 3070 is splendid, a 3080 would be amazing, perhaps even overkill.)

At some point, if I were you I'd also spend £90-ish on a much faster boot SSD, and then repurpose your existing SSD to use solely for game storage instead, but that's not a necessary thing, merely a "nice to have".

I'd definitely steer clear of a HDD for any remotely recent AAA gaming at the least. I mean, if you're gonna spend that much on a new GPU...
I'd say at the least get a fuller speed 256-512Gb PCIe 4.0 or even a fuller speed (3000-3500 MB R/W) 3.0 for the boot and throw the current one in slot 2 for the main game drive. Imagine having greater TFLOPS than an XB Series X but significantly worse loading times...

 

[Timjord10]

I'd definitely steer clear of a HDD for any remotely recent AAA gaming at the least. I mean, if you're gonna spend that much on a new GPU...
I'd say at the least get a fuller speed 256-512Gb PCIe 4.0 or even a fuller speed (3000-3500 MB R/W) 3.0 for the boot and throw the current one in slot 2 for the main game drive. Imagine having greater TFLOPS than an XB Series X but significantly worse loading times...

Cheers for reply, i was thinking of updating upgrading the HDD to a SDD cos the SSD is quicker, but just wondering how i upgrade my SSD to better one, so i need to get better PCIe SSD?

 

[CMP01]

Okay cool, ill look into these options further cheers, not looking to buy till new year, 1440p would be great compared to my current setup but 4k keeps catching my attention haha
And okay, what does that mean haha? Is the HDD better than the SSD? And how do i find a faster SSD? Im kinda newish to this so tryna learn sorry

Long story short, SSD is way better than HDD.
In detail HDD is a mechanical drive that's limited by the speed of the working parts, while SSD's have no working parts. As for SSD's themselves there's two main types, SATA and NVME. The former top out at around 5-600 MB R/W (read and write speeds) via the same interface as HDD's (but some 5-10 times faster) NVME's run via a different interface and achieve speeds of up to 3500 MB R/W for PCIe 3.0 drives and up to 7000 MB R/W for PCIe 4.0 drives (the current top standard) Your motherboard has two slots for this type, one each of 4.0 and 3.0. In terms of game loads there's a mere handful of seconds between the two but a larger gap between those and SATA SSD's... which in turn are a larger gap faster than HDD's. I have plenty of AAA games from the last 5 years or so that load in between 10-45 seconds across NVME and SATA SSD drives but take minutes on a HDD.
At this point re gaming HDD's are fast getting left in the dust, only holding up for older and indie titles tbh. That said, they are still a good choice for cheaper mass storage; docs, pics, vids etc, and are cheaper than SSD's overall if not as reliable longer term.

 

[Timjord10]

Long story short, SSD is way better than HDD.
In detail HDD is a mechanical drive that's limited by the speed of the working parts, while SSD's have no working parts. As for SSD's themselves there's two main types, SATA and NVME. The former top out at around 5-600 MB R/W (read and write speeds) via the same interface as HDD's (but some 5-10 times faster) NVME's run via a different interface and achieve speeds of up to 3500 MB R/W for PCIe 3.0 drives and up to 7000 MB R/W for PCIe 4.0 drives (the current top standard) Your motherboard has two slots for this type, one each of 4.0 and 3.0. In terms of game loads there's a mere handful of seconds between the two but a larger gap between those and SATA SSD's... which in turn are a larger gap faster than HDD's. I have plenty of AAA games from the last 5 years or so that load in between 10-45 seconds across NVME and SATA SSD drives but take minutes on a HDD.
At this point re gaming HDD's are fast getting left in the dust, only holding up for older and indie titles tbh. That said, they are still a good choice for cheaper mass storage; docs, pics, vids etc, and are cheaper than SSD's overall if not as reliable longer term.

Cheers for this detailed reply, read it a few times and makes more sense now thanks, cos noticed games like fallout take minutes on HDD but seconds on SSD, i mainly use HDD for games hardly played, so deffo gonna upgrade the HDD to a SSD, what is my SSD atm? Is it SATA or NVME if you dont mind me asking?

Edit: just looked it up and see its NVME

 

[CMP01]

Cheers for this detailed reply, read it a few times and makes more sense now thanks, cos noticed games like fallout take minutes on HDD but seconds on SSD, i mainly use HDD for games hardly played, so deffo gonna upgrade the HDD to a SSD, what is my SSD atm? Is it SATA or NVME if you dont mind me asking?

Edit: just looked it up and see its NVME

You're welcome. That one is a PCIe 3.0 NVME drive, and not the fastest there is. Still, significantly faster than a SATA SSD though. My gf's gaming laptop has a similar speed one for her boot drive and tbh it's snappy enough even compared to my PCIe 4.0 boot drives.
Fwiw and imo your cheaper options re an SSD upgrade are;

Swap the current one to the other slot as a gaming drive and get a smaller capacity faster one (as mentioned above) in the main (boot) slot. This will require reinstalling/cloning your OS to the new drive, boot will be faster and you'll have all of the old drive for the more demanding games.

Or keep the current one in place and get a SATA SSD for the big games.

Doing more will cost more. Don't necessarily take cues from my storage specs below, they are rather overkill tbh. I could've done just as well with a PCIe 4.0 for boot and 3.0 for everything else, and I only have the SATA SSD's as mass storage cos they were spares from older builds (which is good testament to their lifespans/reliability) You can/should keep the HDD for other storage though as it's always handy to have.

I'll also add, as an idea... re the planned new GPU, you'll be fine with that PSU and a 3080 10/12Gb or even AMD's 6800XT/6900XT (if ray tracing isn't a must have for you) but for 4K, possibly diminishing returns over longer term especially with more/increasing demands in games. At 1440p they'll handle easily but there is an in between option that has a lot of fans; 3440x1440, an ultrawide 21:9 ratio (like I use) Give it a search, you might like what you see.

 

[Timjord10]

You're welcome. That one is a PCIe 3.0 NVME drive, and not the fastest there is. Still, significantly faster than a SATA SSD though. My gf's gaming laptop has a similar speed one for her boot drive and tbh it's snappy enough even compared to my PCIe 4.0 boot drives.
Fwiw and imo your cheaper options re an SSD upgrade are;

Swap the current one to the other slot as a gaming drive and get a smaller capacity faster one (as mentioned above) in the main (boot) slot. This will require reinstalling/cloning your OS to the new drive, boot will be faster and you'll have all of the old drive for the more demanding games.

Or keep the current one in place and get a SATA SSD for the big games.

Doing more will cost more. Don't necessarily take cues from my storage specs below, they are rather overkill tbh. I could've done just as well with a PCIe 4.0 for boot and 3.0 for everything else, and I only have the SATA SSD's as mass storage cos they were spares from older builds (which is good testament to their lifespans/reliability) You can/should keep the HDD for other storage though as it's always handy to have.

I'll also add, as an idea... re the planned new GPU, you'll be fine with that PSU and a 3080 10/12Gb or even AMD's 6800XT/6900XT (if ray tracing isn't a must have for you) but for 4K, possibly diminishing returns over longer term especially with more/increasing demands in games. At 1440p they'll handle easily but there is an in between option that has a lot of fans; 3440x1440, an ultrawide 21:9 ratio (like I use) Give it a search, you might like what you see.

Again, appreciate the detailed reply, its good to learn about the components and how they work as im planning upgrades, i see from my motherboard i have the following

• 2 x PCIe 4.0/3.0 X16 slots
  - 2-Way CrossFireX™
  - ASUS SafeSlot
• 64Gb/s M.2 support
  PCIe 4.0 x4 & SATA mode
• 32Gb/s M.2 support
  PCIe 3.0 x4 & SATA mode

So the X16 is where my gpu is, and i currently have ssd in the m.2 pcie 3.0 slot, so could upgrade to a faster pcie and/or get a pcie 4.0 ssd for boot? Think i will be starting off with your suggestion of swapping the current one to other slot for gaming and getting a smaller one for boot, fine with copying OS and that over, will deffo keep the HDD for less demanding games and storage
Also thanks for telling me about the new monitor option, will look into that, any would be big improve over current setup however i get good fps an smooth play, so wouldnt want 4k but not as smooth gameplay, again cheers for all your help and knowledge so far, your setup sounds amazing haha

 

[TonyCarter]

What case do you have, as the newer cards seem to be quite long compared to the 20x0 and twin-fan 30x0 GPUs!

 

[Timjord10]

What case do you have, as the newer cards seem to be quite long compared to the 20x0 and twin-fan 30x0 GPUs!

Yeah they look like beasts! My case is LIAN LI LANCOOL 215 GAMING CASE