Have you watching benchmark videos to see how far behind your 2600 is? A 13100 would give you 100% more speed, much less the 14100 that is coming out.

Since you focus on games with the 165Hz, buy a 7600x, get a quality motherboard like an Aorus Elite AX or MSI at that price, 32GB DDR5, then in 3 or 4 years you buy a 9950x and go to 16 cores on that motherboard to do a system upgrade.

Trying a new system is not the same as using it for a week with all of your programs installed and you see how responsive it is with your programd open and running.

You are missing a lot of instruction sets, and buyig AM5 now or next year buying Intel with feed the 165Hz a lot smoother and you will make better use of it. The 2600 can’t keep up with the 6850 and provice consistant smooth frame timings.

You need to build a new computer including new power supply. You can only re-use the Radeon and storage in new system, everything else must be replaced. Check the price of 2600K on eBay. You whole PC minus 6850 might sell for $200. I would argue that you’re holding on to something that can’t sell anymore.

Then spend every dollar you can on a video card to power the dual 1440’s. Then work towards buying a new motherboard and processor.

If you can afford it, Dark Power 13 1000W, oterwise the Pure Power 12 1000W as a second choice.

Having 2 1440’s, yes, you badly need to upgrade video card. Something like a 6800 XT, 4070 may work or might not be strong enough but 4080 is a lot of money, or 3080 Ti.

After you buy a GPU, save up for new board and processor, your 6 cores won’t always keep up with graphics card

Why side note to start, why do people like start a conversation with “I mean…” when there was nothing said previously? That is a phrase usually reserved for when someone is clarify a previous statement regarding what they meant to say beforehand, that’s why I ask, how do initiate first contact with “I mean…”?

For LMG, the position of the person in contact with Billet Lab is irrelevent. In a healthy company, there is frequent contact between the different deparments during work. Interdepartment agencies. When someone at LMG got the request for the prototype to be returned, it would be their duty and responsivility to pass the memo on to the person(s) involved and notify them in the appropriate position of the request with a statement that it has to packaged up so the individuals who handle all incoming and outgoing packges can get it sent back to Billet Labs. It’s not the person who received the request that is then responsible for the packaging and mailing of it.

It’s different employees in that chain who are responsible and as they complete it they pass it on to the next in line in the process for getting it ready to go out.

Billet Labs asked for it to be returned. LMG agreed the their request and told Billet Labs “Yes, we will return it to you.” Then LMG auctioned it off. LMG committed theft. There very well may be a valid legal case for Billet Labs to sue for punitive damages if LMG does not give them a sizeable amount of money.

Seeing Linus not address about LMG agreed to send the protype back to Billet Labs, plus Billet Labs publicly stating “No, we never agreed to financial compensation, we asked for it to be returned” and Linus saying it was auctioned for charity makes Linus Media Group a thief.

Yes,I’m saying LMG stole the protype from Billet Laps since it was sold and not retuned.

That’s why I said B550, 5700x, and 32GB to run the 1060 at max capacity that the current 4 cores can’t do.

Wait and save some more money.

A new board and CPU will be hurt by 1060. A 30 series GPU will be hurt by i3.

You could look at B550 with 5700x and 32GB for a lot more speed in everything, gaming could be smoother with 5700x but necassarily high framerate.