What's your next upgrade?

Vexr

Vexr

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Having upgraded my CPU, motherboard, RAM, graphics card, and monitor recently (specs in sig), I can't help but wonder what the future will hold upgrade-wise.

I have a 500 GB SSD + 1 GB 7200 rpm HDD for OS/games, and these are starting to struggle for space (and speed in the latter's case). I have a slow 4 TB HDD for regular files/junk, which is fine for that purpose.

My guess is my future upgrades will look like this:
  1. 1-2 TB NVME M.2 drive (in 6 - 12 months)
  2. Graphics card - possibly the gen post-Arcturus or an RTX 4070 or equivalent, whatever's around in ~2022
  3. CPU - the best Ryzen 3000/AM4 CPU that'll work in my motherboard - probably ~2023
  4. New PC ~2026-2027
How about you guys?
 
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NVMe doesn't have really any real world speed advantage over SATA SSD for game loading times.
Having more space to actually fit games into SSD helps lot more.
So just get that doubled capacity per price with SATA signaled SSD.


Myself basically waiting for Ryzen 3000.
 
EsaT said:
NVMe doesn't have really any real world speed advantage over SATA SSD for game loading times.
Having more space to actually fit games into SSD helps lot more.
So just get that doubled capacity per price with SATA signaled SSD.
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Ah, I think that's what I meant. I haven't done my home work on m.2 yet. I primarily want a drive for the m.2 slot on my motherboard because my case doesn't have any space for another 2.5" SSD. I'll definitely be prioritising capacity over mega-speed.
 
A NAS with 2x6 or 8tb is next on the cards, it’s pricey though so I’ll just get the one drive at first.

And I’m waiting for a gpu that’s a decent step up from an overclocked 1080, and a block for it.
 
Currently waiting to see if Navi will
Release in May with Zen2(AMD 50th Anniversary) hopefully
They do and I will be building a new system around the parts.

Going to buy a Ryzen 7 3700X(12Core 24Thread)
Fastest Navi GPU
High end motherboard
Fast RAM 2x8GB(3466MHz)
Modular power supply
new case.
Possible water cooling?
 
EsaT said:
NVMe doesn't have really any real world speed advantage over SATA SSD for game loading times.
Having more space to actually fit games into SSD helps lot more.
So just get that doubled capacity per price with SATA signaled SSD.


Myself basically waiting for Ryzen 3000.
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I’m not sure that the statement NVMe doesn’t have a speed advantage in loading times is entirely true, I’ve seen side-by-side comparisons and in some games there is a difference. As games get larger the latest NVMe drives can offer a 7x speed advantage in sequential reads, it is getting to the point that they are bouncing up against the limit of the PCIE 3.0 interface.

As the price gap closes between NVME and SATA, especially with QLC drives, it can begin to make sense to use an NVMe drive as a game drive, whilst QLC drives have their limitations in terms of sustained write performance and limited write endurance, these don’t really apply to a game drive.

In terms of future upgrades, a new X570 motherboard and a Ryzen 3XXX processor are on the horizon for this year, no GPU as waiting for a worthy upgrade from the GTX1080ti that offers a real performance upgrade at a sub £750 price point.
 
ilc72 said:
As the price gap closes between NVME and SATA, especially with QLC drives
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Wouldn't touch pretty much analog QLC until after 3-4 years.
It needs to distinguish between 16 charge levels to avoid errors.
Remember that planar-TLC become almost volatile memory and Samsung had to sweep problem under the rug by firmware update, which rewrites data periodically to prevent it from evaporating.
And TLC needs to distinguish "just" eight charge levels.
 
Hopefully be Ryzen 3000. Money is sitting waiting for a full setup.

Might keep my 1080ti into new build and put my old 980ti into current rig for a secondary PC in the lounge.

Will ben:
Aother Rog ips panel
Top tier Ryzen
New mobo (mid to high range)
16gb
2x 500+ GB standard sata ssds

Have a spare PSU.
Have a spare Thermaltake x9 monster white case.

Will consider water cooling maybe
 
Ive only recently come back to PC gaming wise so still rocking an X58 system. Recently had a look and upgraded my I7 930 to a Xeon 5675 and managed to get it to 4.6 so that's sufficing for now. Its currently powering a 1080Ti (yeah I'm sure there's some bottleneck) at 1440p

Really wanting to get the CPU and platform up to date but going to do it in phases. First will be a case. Looking at the Lian Li Razer O11 Dynamic, and will transfer what I have in there. Will need to research fans and AIOs for that.

Once that's in, running cool and working, the next step will be CPU/mobo. Current research seems to point to 8700k as best bang for buck but I'm hearing more about the next Ryzen Gen so need to look into that. That will be the big hit as I'll need to get DDR4 and nvmes etc. But that should unleash a little more perf from the GPU.

Then probably monitor. I'd love to get a variable refresh rate monitor as even with this rig I can get 80+ frames on most, though I just play at 60hz.

Then finally it will be longer term getting rads and looking at custom water cooling.

Its a long term plan and thinking if putting the monitor right at the front to enjoy immediate gains. But not sure. It's nice to be researching again though!
 
This year's going to be upgrade only for me I think, planning on:

- Adding 2 more M2 NVME to give me another RAID array in main machine (probably the new crucial drives this time).

- Swapping 64 GB of RAM to 128 GB

- Going to get 25 or 40GB ethernet between my FreeNAS box and the Threadripper system sorted out, and increase the number of SATA SSDs in the FreeNAS box
 
Some more fibre-optic video cables and some silencing kit and that's about it. I've already upgraded my monitor.
 
Navi at £400-450
Ryzen 3000 at £200-250
MSI B550 GAMING PRO CARBON AC at £130-150
LG 27GL850F 27" Nano IPS Freesync at £550-650

+ aiming for a silent build:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £521.85 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
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