How to Upgrade Your Gaming PC: What Should You Replace First?
Your PC still runs your games, but something is holding it back. Do you buy a faster graphics card, swap the processor, add more memory, or finally replace that old monitor? The annoying answer is that the right upgrade depends on why the machine feels slow. The good news: you can narrow that down before buying anything. Let’s work through a real decision with an imaginary PC. It has a Ryzen 5 5600, an RTX 3060 12GB and a 1080p/60Hz display. We have $800 in new money, plus whatever we can realistically recover by selling old parts. We’ll look at GPU and CPU candidates, the motherboard, memory, storage and display, then see which combination makes sense. ...