I think with your budget you’d want to upgrade either your CPU or your GPU, but not both, and should first identify the bottleneck for each of your use cases. At a guess, I’d say GPU for starfield and possibly CPU for minecraft especially if you’re using mods, but it’s worth spending time measuring that and picking the direction you want to go. You can try smaller upgrades for each, but my sense is that it wouldn’t sum up to as worthwhile upgrade as focusing on one.
An nvme drive would be nice, but I wouldn’t prioritize it above cpu/gpu. I think 16GB of memory is fine for what you’re wanting, and there’s nothing wrong with that motherboard.
Used 2080ti’s sell within your budget (and for less there are 2080 and 2080 supers on the market), and that would be a huge upgrade on the GPU side. Not a recommendation, just something to consider.
I think with your budget you’d want to upgrade either your CPU or your GPU, but not both, and should first identify the bottleneck for each of your use cases. At a guess, I’d say GPU for starfield and possibly CPU for minecraft especially if you’re using mods, but it’s worth spending time measuring that and picking the direction you want to go. You can try smaller upgrades for each, but my sense is that it wouldn’t sum up to as worthwhile upgrade as focusing on one.
An nvme drive would be nice, but I wouldn’t prioritize it above cpu/gpu. I think 16GB of memory is fine for what you’re wanting, and there’s nothing wrong with that motherboard.
Used 2080ti’s sell within your budget (and for less there are 2080 and 2080 supers on the market), and that would be a huge upgrade on the GPU side. Not a recommendation, just something to consider.