Overdue (maybe?) for an Upgrade - Advice Needed

[Sean Fox]

So I've been using the following setup for the oven past (almost) 5 years:

i5-4570
16GB Corsair Vengeance PC3-19200
Asus Maximus Ranger VII mobo
MSI 4GB GTX 970 Twin Frozr
Asus PB298Q Ultrawide monitor
Corsair HX750i PSU (750w)

Plus 3 SATA SSD's, an m.2 970 evo, and a 2TB Barracuda.

I feel like it's time for an upgrade - not because the system is struggling, but because I'd like to be in a position to maybe look at an Oculus further down the line.

Do I need a full upgrade, I guess is my main question? Could I get by with just a new GPU?

I was contemplating the following as a potential upgrade - any thoughts would be appreciated! I don't have a huge budget on hand, so I'd be buying the components over a couple of months:

Ryzen 5 3600X
MSI X570 Gaming Carbon Wifi
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 (3466)
RX 5700 GPU
I'm planning on streamlining my storage as well and reducing my drives down to maybe 3 drives (2 x m.2 and 1 x mechanical) - one for the OS, one for games and a large mechanical for general/long term storage)

Any and all advice is welcome!

Cheers!

 

[Threepwood]

8 pack 3200 ram, or viper steel 4000 is a better bet for B-die low timings with high speeds (set then either at 3600, or a bit higher depending on the infinity fabric speed you can get out of your cpu)

Personally I would go for a 3700x and use the supplied cooler.

You dont really need an x570, especially at the high prices, an msi tomahawk max or mortar max, money saved pays for the 3700x instead of the 3600.

Upto you with Gpu, flashing a 5700 with 5700xt is pretty good bang for buck.

 

[Minibiker]

You have a fairly big budget I'm guessing what is the PC used for? Gaming?

 

[Sean Fox]

You have a fairly big budget I'm guessing what is the PC used for? Gaming?

Thanks for the suggestions @Threepwood and Merry Christmas guys! I like the idea of skipping the X570 and getting the 3700x instead.

I don't have a massive budget (I've got about £500 to start the build off with right now) but I'm more than happy spending more by buying a few bits over 2 or 3 paydays if it means I can get a better system ultimately.

It's mainly used for gaming - primarily RTS, adventure and RPGs and the odd first person shooter. It also occasionally doubles up as a DAW for recording music.

I've never dabbled with overclocking before so I was planning to run at stock speed - although I do have a liquid CPU cooler (an old Corsair H100i) which I could use for cooling if I wanted to to down that road.

 

[Minibiker]

Thanks for the suggestions @Minibiker - and Merry Christmas! I like the idea of skipping the X570 and getting the 3700x instead.

I don't have a massive budget (I've got about £500 to start the build off with right now) but I'm more than happy spending more by buying a few bits over 2 or 3 paydays if it means I can get a better system ultimately.

It's mainly used for gaming - primarily RTS, adventure and RPGs and the odd first person shooter. It also occasionally doubles up as a DAW for recording music.

I've never dabbled with overclocking before so I was planning to run at stock speed - although I do have a liquid CPU cooler (an old Corsair H100i) which I could use for cooling if I wanted to to down that road.

Well you have a few parts you could reuse in the new build so that will save a few £££... I'd consider a B450 motherboard and Ryzen 3700x as that will do the job for gaming and will have plenty of performance for any other apps you want to run on the music side of things

 

[Sean Fox]

Well you have a few parts you could reuse in the new build so that will save a few £££... I'd consider a B450 motherboard and Ryzen 3700x as that will do the job for gaming and will have plenty of performance for any other apps you want to run on the music side of things

Thanks dude! I'll take a look at the ones you suggested - they're half the price of the x570 boards I was looking at, so it would be great to save a few quid.

This will be my first AMD build since the late 90's so I'm not really up to speed on the available boards yet, I just assumed I'd need an x570!

 

[Minibiker]

Thanks dude! I'll take a look at the ones you suggested - they're half the price of the x570 boards I was looking at, so it would be great to save a few quid.

This will be my first AMD build since the late 90's so I'm not really up to speed on the available boards yet, I just assumed I'd need an x570!

There are minimal benefits going for a X570 board for the Ryzen 3600,3700x etc so you may aswell save the money and just get a MSI B450 MAX board... AMD has come a really long way since the 90's, back then Intel were the bees knees but not at all now....