Keep or flog it!

[Hades]

My opinion... there are two options and they depend on how cash strapped you are.

The ideal would be to get a B450 Tomahawk Max, Ryzen 3600 and 16gb DDR4. Then sell yours for what you can get and look for a used GPU on the MM. You may also be able to get the mobo, CPU and RAM from the MM.

If you really are very cash strapped then stay with what you have and upgrade the GPU, again with a used one from the MM.

 

[koooowweeee]

If you can sell your current mobo, cpu, ram, gpu for £340-350 you should be laughing.

He sure would be laughing at that price. About £200-250 is more realistic and that's only because the CPU is still selling for top money. When you could get a Xeon for £8 that will do the same thing.

Edit: bit of messing OP but if you wanted you could get a x5650 for a few quid and then sell your 990x for £120 ish and add the extra cash to buying a GPU

 

[Disco_P]

Don't worry about NVME, I haven't found any situation in gaming, windows or program loading that noticeably benefits from them over a normal 2012 sata ssd. I don't do any professional work on my PC though.

My 2p is get the best GPU you can afford for now. RX590 is very well priced at the moment.

Edit: bit of messing OP but if you wanted you could get a x5650 for a few quid and then sell your 990x for £120 ish and add the extra cash to buying a GPU

This honestly isn't a bad shout at all. x5650 is literally available for £8, the 990x sells for <£100 and they are the same chip once the x5650 is OC'd.

 

[faceman123]

hey man sell everything, you can get used 1700 for 80 and motherboard + ram - you will at most spend + 100 for like double the permomance ddr4 m.2 etc!

 

[Phatzy]

Cheers guys I think I am gunna sell the lot and see what I can get for it. Been looking all day on fleabay and marketplace and here for some decent upgrades so hopefully get enough I reckon.

 

[faceman123]

Cheers guys I think I am gunna sell the lot and see what I can get for it. Been looking all day on fleabay and marketplace and here for some decent upgrades so hopefully get enough I reckon.

just my two cents - get a x570 board and get a stop gap 1700x or 2700x - they go used for around £80-90, with the x570 you have an upgrade option to 16 core ( the next lot which arent released) but more importantly pice express 4.0 !! either way the 1700x will be a huge upgrade for u

 

[Disco_P]

just my two cents - get a x570 board and get a stop gap 1700x or 2700x - they go used for around £80-90, with the x570 you have an upgrade option to 16 core ( the next lot which arent released) but more importantly pice express 4.0 !! either way the 1700x will be a huge upgrade for u

I'd argue not to waste your time on x570, PCIe 4.0 isn't useful for consumers yet and probably won't be for many many many years.

 

[Phatzy]

After loking at the prices of an x570 its too expensive for. This 990x is running fine at the moment and all its needs a better SSD and something like a RX 590 or similar priced graphics card then I think I could get another year out of it for little gaming I guess. Save up for a new build?

 

[sidthesexist]

Just use a B450 instead of an X570? Only thing you're losing really is PCIE4?

 

[Joxeon]

I used to run a x5670 @4.4ghz with a gtx 1070ti and it performed pretty well although going to a b450 and a ryzen 5 3600 did improve fps and especially 1% lows.

As others have suggested selling the 990x and getting a cheap Xeon then overclocking it and using the money gained on a newer Gpu would give you a really nice performance boost for very little spend.

No it isnt overclocked, I try and keep away from such tweaks to keep energy consumption down. Would the CPU hold back an card in this price bracket £150-£200?

It wouldn't if it was overclocked that's why overclocking a CPU of this age is really needed if you are to keep the machine going with a newer Gpu. For Gpus I'd look at getting a used pascal gtx 1070/ti 1080 from about £150-200 as these are much better price/performance second hand than anything new. They are also more energy efficient than amd rx cards.