redd720's Lynx hardware upgrades?

hey I just got my lynx level 1 knowing that I would need to build on to it and was wondering what I would need to do to upgrade it to run warzone and call of duty cold war as those are the games enjoy most I know I may need a graphics cars I just don't know where it would go or which one would be best and I know I need ram but I don't know where that would go either or how many gbs of it I would need I know what they look like I just dint want to break anything

Your monitor resolution is an important factor. If you don't have one, I'd strongly recommend you stick with about a 24"-27" 1080p IPS panel that can get to around 144 frames per second. You are limited by your 600W power supply to no stronger than an RTX3060 Ti. That card is absolutely killer for 1080p and will last years. It's also very expensive ($(900+), as are all GPUs right now.

A significant step down is a GTX 1650 SUPER card from Nvidia that you can get into at around $500 new. It will run a 1080p monitor quite well, but not at the high framerates a 3060 will.

If you are comfortable shopping on Ebay, it's likely your best bet to save some money.

When you have one, you simply plug it into the top PCIe slot on your motherboard and locate the power cable(s) that go to it. It/they may be behind your motherboard since they are not currently in use. Depending upon what GPU you get, it may need one or two power cables. There are plenty of videos on You Tube that show you how.

Same goes for a RAM install. Literally just plug into the slots. 16GB would be enough. You have to have matching sticks, so you can't just add to the RAM you already have unless you can get the exact same. It's better to have two 8GB sticks than one 16GB. That's so you can have dual channel RAM going for you.

Does that help?

Good input and advice guys!

As far as a graphics card suggestion, I'd suggest keeping an eye out for an AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT. It's about equal to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 (non-Ti). However, Radeon cards are less popular thus typically better supply nowadays. With that said, you're still not going to get one at the MSRP nor easily -- it's just a better chance. For the 6600 XT, ~$600 or less would be a good target price relativity speaking.

The best price I found via a quick marketplace search was $700 for this:

Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card | Amazon

Great idea MrCheetah! You're quite right of course.