Upgrade Advice

[SteveBlower]

Hello All
This Is My Currect System Specs
Case Corsair c275R
Mobo Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600x
Ram Corsair Vengence DDR4 16 gig 3200MHz
Corsair A500 CPU Cooler
Lian Li UNI Fan SL120 RGB x3 (Front Case)
Corsair AF140 LED Fan (Top Blowing)
Corsair ML120 Fan Rear Case (Blowing)
Graphics Saphire Pulse Radeon 5500XT 8Gig Card
Sound CArd Creative SoundBlaster Z
Keyboard Corsair Strafe Mk2
Mouse Corsair M65 Elite
Hard Drives
1 Crucial SSD 500 GB
1 Seagate SSD 250 GB
2 Seagate 1TB Hard Drives
1 Verbatim USB 1tb Hard Drive
1 USB Hard Drive 2TB
Monitors
1 Acer KG271 C 144 Htz
1 Asus VC279 Monitor
Speakers Creative 5.1
Running Windows 10 Pro 20H2

The Advice i Need is I`m thinking of Changing The Corsair AF140 to another Lian LI SL120 and making that a blowing,Also Changing the back Corsair ML120 Again for another Lian Li SL120.
Reason Simple i have 3 already into Group 1 Of The Lian Li Controller and as we know you can have 4 groups but in my currect case i don`t have the space for more than what i have right now. I am Happy with My system and things are running fine. Now I also Could double the ram to 32 gig but is that worth it?

 

[Cooler running]

The Advice i Need is I`m thinking of Changing The Corsair AF140 to another Lian LI SL120 and making that a blowing,Also Changing the back Corsair ML120 Again for another Lian Li SL120.

At least the ML120 is a high end fan, I couldn't imagine there would be much reason to get rid of it unless you're going for a specific aesthetic. In the latter case it's just up to whether you value such things over a different upgrade.

I am Happy with My system and things are running fine. Now I also Could double the ram to 32 gig but is that worth it?

If you're happy with the system then I wouldn't upgrade the RAM, most people don't see more than 12 GB usage, so unless you know you're going to need more, then I wouldn't worry too much about it.

If I were to recommend an upgrade it would probably be to a higher end GPU such as a 6800XT, but have an inkling that you'd rather keep the 5500XT for a little while longer.

 

[SteveBlower]

Hello
Thank you for the advice I was thinking more aesthetic look for the system and the Lian LI Fans will make it look better as well as all being controlled by the Lian Li controller. But then again i was thinking of the oold adum if it`s not broken don`t fix it.
Also In regards to the Ram I will keep with the 16gig ram for the time being, as for gpu given the current situation your right with keeping with the 5500xt for now and when things improve i`ll consider changing up to the 6800xt.
Just another point i need clearing up on If i`m using the Lian Li controller to control the fans do i need to mount the Argb header to the motherboard or can i take that out?

 

[dfour]

Is it a single stick of ram or dual sticks for your current 16 gig?

I would guess you can remove the argb header if the lian-li controller is doing the work. Try it and see what happens.

 

[SteveBlower]

The Ram I have is Dual stick Corsair Domininator DDR4 3200Mhz 8gig x2

 

[Cooler running]

I was thinking more aesthetic look for the system and the Lian LI Fans

There's not much for me to advise you on if this is the case, it's down to how willing you are to budget the cost.

Just another point i need clearing up on If i`m using the Lian Li controller to control the fans do i need to mount the Argb header to the motherboard or can i take that out?

That's used for motherboard control of the RGB, usually most hubs have an option for motherboard input and other on-device options. If you don't plan on using the motherboard input then you don't need to plug it in.