Upgrading from a laptop, need advice please

[beasty6]

Hey guys.

I time has come to move on from my Acer predator Helios 300 laptop to a proper PC.
I use a 27" 1440p 144hz monitor, and I also stream and record while gaming.

My current laptop is struggling and is a i7-9750H and a full 1660ti 16gb ram and it's now struggling to do the tasks I want.

So for the PC I have a MAX budget of £1600 and no storage drives or OS needed.

I've been looking at getting a custom build to get a rtx3070-80 at a better price.

I can get a 3080 based system for £1574 however uses a 10400F, or I can get a 5600x system with a 3070ti for £1541
The intel system will be using a b560 board also

So what would you guys do? 10400F with a 3080 FTW3 ultra
Or a 5600x with 3070ti FTW3 ultra
Both systems will be using 16gb ram, rmx750 PSU's

Any advice or input appreciated

 

[4K8KW10]

Hallo,

If an option, better go Ryzen with Radeon. Ryzen 7 5800X with Radeon RX 6800 XT 16GB.

You are aware that 3080 has only 10GB of VRAM?

 

[beasty6]

Hi, I wanted to use Nvidia for the hardware encoder and for DLSS in the new battlefield 2042.

I thought 10gb would be enough for 1440p? My 1660ti never had a issue with its 6gb

It's a shame the Radeon encoder isn't as good as the Nvidia or I would have definitely considered it

 

[Pitta]

well when it comes to upgrading it depends on what gpu you can get and for what price. the 5600x is certainly the more capable PC but the 10400F is more than adequate enough. buy your GPU first and then come back to the cpu's as they're readily available and easy to acquire

 

[beasty6]

I'm going to get a custom prebuild.

I can't mention the store here, but the evga 3080 FTW3 ultra is £850 3070ti FTW3 ultra is £750 Asus 3070 TUF is £720

 

[beasty6]

So I have have a list of stuff I'm looking to pull the trigger on.
Decided to build and get a 3070ti FE card instead.

So build is looking like...

5600x, b550 MSI tomahawk, 16gb crucial 3200mhz bundle £400
Corsair RMx850 £100
Lancool 2 mesh £96
EK 240 aio £105
RTX 3070ti FE £530

£1231 all in, anybody see any issues?

 

[Craig_d1]

So I have have a list of stuff I'm looking to pull the trigger on.
Decided to build and get a 3070ti FE card instead.

So build is looking like...

5600x, b550 MSI tomahawk, 16gb crucial 3200mhz bundle £400
Corsair RMx850 £100
Lancool 2 mesh £96
EK 240 aio £105
RTX 3070ti FE £530

£1231 all in, anybody see any issues?

Shame they're not putting 3600 ram in that bundle, but can't really complain at that price. All looks good to me.
Case, aio all subjective really. Artic Freezer 2 aio slightly cheaper and have great performance, but they should all do an ok job really. Just check reviews before you buy. If you want wifi sometimes worth going for it intergrated in the mobo, but the tomahawk is a solid board

the rm850x pic above is the new 2021 version. The older version is below. The new version goes a little louder under load but the fans use magnetic levitation and are meant to be far more durable. Their are other modifications I can't remember but review put it as a better psu. I've seen it for £110..up to you whether you think it's worth the extra...both come with 10 yrs warranties

Have fun with the build

 

[dfour]

Unless you really want a AIO then its overkill for a 5600x as they run pretty cool. A £30 alpenfohn brocken ECO will do it easily and never break down saving £75 which is the price of another 1tb ssd.

 

[beasty6]

Unless you really want a AIO then its overkill for a 5600x as they run pretty cool. A £30 alpenfohn brocken ECO will do it easily and never break down saving £75 which is the price of another 1tb ssd.

It's more for looks if I'm honest.
Just think the builds look much better and cleaner with a aio.

But yeh I'm pretty set on a 5600x, however now wondering if I should get a 6700xt, as I really don't want to be waiting around for a GPU.

Unless any of you guys can do me a system for around the £1200 mark, however can go to £1500 if needs must.
I play at 1440, already sorted storage, OS etc too

 

[Craig_d1]

It's more for looks if I'm honest.
Just think the builds look much better and cleaner with a aio.

But yeh I'm pretty set on a 5600x, however now wondering if I should get a 6700xt, as I really don't want to be waiting around for a GPU.

Unless any of you guys can do me a system for around the £1200 mark, however can go to £1500 if needs must.
I play at 1440, already sorted storage, OS etc too

if you go AMD route, you get lousy ray tracing compared to nvidia cards, and also loose out on dlss, though FSR should gain some ground. From what people saying if you encode also, amd not as good, but for normal gaming, def cheaper than a 3070 unless you can get an fe card...

just reread original post..if you stream and record while gaming I'd stick with nvidia(from what other forum members say)

 

[Craig_d1]

Hasn't been a drop anywhere in 3 weeks...hopefully one soon.

 

[Craig_d1]

and there we go, Netherlands just had a drop.

Agree with you about aio. 1st time for me but much prefer the look. I liked 360mm rad though along top, as 3 fans match 3 fans at front etc...having that slightly longer case also gives more space in the case, so I didn't have to think about length of gpu's and whether they'd fit or not

 

[beasty6]

and there we go, Netherlands just had a drop.

Agree with you about aio. 1st time for me but much prefer the look. I liked 360mm rad though along top, as 3 fans match 3 fans at front etc...having that slightly longer case also gives more space in the case, so I didn't have to think about length of gpu's and whether they'd fit or not

Yeh I got the ping for Netherlands and Germany this morning, going to hope to get a 3080! But still wouldn't mind a 3070ti

 

[jigger]

OcUK have this.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x OcUK Gaming Kestrel Micro-ATX Gaming PC - AMD Ryzen 5600X, AMD Radeon Graphics = £1,261.10
  • Case:Kolink Citadel Mesh RGB Micro-ATX Case - Black
  • Primary Solid State Drive (M.2):WD Blue SN550 250GB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS250G2B0C)
  • Secondary Solid State Drive (M.2):Unwanted
  • Primary 2.5" Solid State Drive:Unwanted
  • Secondary 2.5" Solid State Drive :Unwanted
  • Operating System:Unwanted
  • Security Software:Unwanted
  • Memory:Kingston Fury Beast 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit
  • Graphics Card:*Build Stock* MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT Mech 2X 12GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

Total: £1,275.20 (includes shipping: £14.10)​

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[beasty6]

OcUK have this.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x OcUK Gaming Kestrel Micro-ATX Gaming PC - AMD Ryzen 5600X, AMD Radeon Graphics = £1,261.10
  • Case:Kolink Citadel Mesh RGB Micro-ATX Case - Black
  • Primary Solid State Drive (M.2):WD Blue SN550 250GB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS250G2B0C)
  • Secondary Solid State Drive (M.2):Unwanted
  • Primary 2.5" Solid State Drive:Unwanted
  • Secondary 2.5" Solid State Drive :Unwanted
  • Operating System:Unwanted
  • Security Software:Unwanted
  • Memory:Kingston Fury Beast 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit
  • Graphics Card:*Build Stock* MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT Mech 2X 12GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

Total: £1,275.20 (includes shipping: £14.10)
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I did look at this, however from the research I have done, it seems envec is the way to go for streaming and recording, hoping to bag a FE card on the next drop