pc upgrade advice or a new build

kenny_st

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hi all, need your help once again, im in the process of buying a new monitor, looking at the gigabyte aorus 43inch (i am tired of a 60hz refresh rate ). anyway i of course will need to upgrade my pc or even a new build.
my current pc spec is a msi z170a m5 board , 2+ 2tb hdd, 500gb ssd, i7-6700k, 16gb ballistix ddr4, rm750 x psu. msi 980ti gpu.

i will be honest i am completely out of touch with the latest gen etc.

i was thinking maybe a ssd upgrade and a 1080 ti ? again if this sounds stupid then please say so lol

now if i need a new build, my budget can be £5k i was even thinking of buying the i9 alienware aurora r13 ? but i would only spend that sort of money if there is no other options to upgrade my current build
 
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I haven’t run at 4K, but I have seen some impressive performance with RDNA2 cards and Intel quad core i7’s. Maybe drop in a RX 6000 card. Personally I’d probably look at upgrading the everything.
 
The 6700k is at the end of its life as a gaming core (assuming that's the main use for it). Cyberpunk and a few other titles will need more oomph. A good mid point would be re using your storage, PSU but with a modern Intel 12th gen and a mid range GPU (3070 Ti, 6800). Of course, if you have £5k to blow then the world is kind of your oyster :)
 
something like this? plus a new case, i can re use the ram and my 500gb ssd, will a 750 psu be ok with the below also could some one spec me a water cooler please

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £3,191.02 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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kenny_st said:
hi all, need your help once again, im in the process of buying a new monitor, looking at the gigabyte aorus 43inch (i am tired of a 60hz refresh rate ).
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Size has nothing to do with refresh rate.
And anyway if you have desk depth and room and are aiming for that big, might as well get OLED for perfect contrast, response times and real viewing angles.
(as VA that FV43U has issues if you watch it from close)

42" OLEDs should be coming out this year.
https://www.displayninja.com/best-oled-monitor/
 
kenny_st said:
hi all, need your help once again, im in the process of buying a new monitor, looking at the gigabyte aorus 43inch (i am tired of a 60hz refresh rate ). anyway i of course will need to upgrade my pc or even a new build.
my current pc spec is a msi z170a m5 board , 2+ 2tb hdd, 500gb ssd, i7-6700k, 16gb ballistix ddr4, rm750 x psu. msi 980ti gpu.

i will be honest i am completely out of touch with the latest gen etc.

i was thinking maybe a ssd upgrade and a 1080 ti ? again if this sounds stupid then please say so lol

now if i need a new build, my budget can be £5k i was even thinking of buying the i9 alienware aurora r13 ? but i would only spend that sort of money if there is no other options to upgrade my current build
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Aye, 6700k a great cpu but i had issues in CP2077 and MSFS2020, moving from 4 to 10 core big impact and 3080 no longer bottlenecked.
 
kenny_st said:
now if i need a new build,
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Yes. Sign up for FE Partalert on Telegram and snag yourself a RTX 3080 or 3090 at MSRP. You need to act immediately you get an alert. (Best if you pre-setup an account.) That will leave you plenty for the rest of your PC.

Bang for the buck CPUs are the 12600 and 12700 - get the -k suffix ones if you plan to overclock. Ditch the SATA SSD and go fully M.2 - get yourself a 1 TB or 2 TB boot drive and a 4 TB or 8 TB data drive.

What speed is your RAM? 3600 MHz is the usual recommended speed these days.
 
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Yes. Sign up for FE Partalert on Telegram and snag yourself a RTX 3080 or 3090 at MSRP. You need to act immediately you get an alert. (Best if you pre-setup an account.) That will leave you plenty for the rest of your PC.

Bang for the buck CPUs are the 12600 and 12700 - get the -k suffix ones if you plan to overclock. Ditch the SATA SSD and go fully M.2 - get yourself a 1 TB or 2 TB boot drive and a 4 TB or 8 TB data drive.

What speed is your RAM? 3600 MHz is the usual recommended speed these days.
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command prompt is saying 2400

i will have a look on fe partalert
 
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something like this? plus a new case, i can re use the ram and my 500gb ssd, will a 750 psu be ok with the below also could some one spec me a water cooler please

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £3,191.02 (includes shipping: £11.10)
​
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You could save £500~ and get an RX 6900XT. The Samsung 870 QVO is a decent bulk storage drive, but I’d go with a faster boot drive. Probably a 2TB Rocket drive.
 
hi all thanks for the help i ended up going for the new alienware r13 with the i9 and 3090 i may regret it but we shall see, 28th of feb delivery slot, i am going to need your help soon tho as my 12 year old daughter wants a desktop which will replace her gaming laptop:)
 
kenny_st said:
hi all, need your help once again, im in the process of buying a new monitor, looking at the gigabyte aorus 43inch (i am tired of a 60hz refresh rate ). anyway i of course will need to upgrade my pc or even a new build.
my current pc spec is a msi z170a m5 board , 2+ 2tb hdd, 500gb ssd, i7-6700k, 16gb ballistix ddr4, rm750 x psu. msi 980ti gpu.

i will be honest i am completely out of touch with the latest gen etc.

i was thinking maybe a ssd upgrade and a 1080 ti ? again if this sounds stupid then please say so lol

now if i need a new build, my budget can be £5k i was even thinking of buying the i9 alienware aurora r13 ? but i would only spend that sort of money if there is no other options to upgrade my current build
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Nvidea drop just happenned. 3090Fe available for £1,399 and can add to basket, so be quick....
you need to download telegram on phone, sub the FEPartAlert
 
thanks all, well long story short my dell order was cancelled by them, so I'm going to build my own, i just need to wait for dell to refund me. think i might do a msi build again with case and rgb :D
 
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