1k to 1.5k upgrade advise

[Hansgoober]

Hi all,

After about 6 years my I5 3570k has blown on me and im now looking to upgrade

My budget is between 1k and 1.5k and im looking to game at 1440p (monitor not required)

Im kind of swayed towards AMD but in all honestly im not that fussed as long as im getting bang for buck.

Any advise would be most welcomed

Thanks
Gav

 

[EsaT]

Welcome aboard.

Ryzen 3700X would be certainly good upgrade to go for many years with 8 cores/16 threads.

And when looking at more modern games AMD's Navi/RX 5700 cards perform really well for their price.
https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_rx_5700_and_5700_xt_review,13.html


Do you have any parts like case/drives from current PC you can reuse?

 

[Hansgoober]

Welcome aboard.

Ryzen 3700X would be certainly good upgrade to go for many years with 8 cores/16 threads.

And when looking at more modern games AMD's Navi/RX 5700 cards perform really well for their price.
https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_rx_5700_and_5700_xt_review,13.html


Do you have any parts like case/drives from current PC you can reuse?

Its all around 6 years old and wouldn't really feel comfortable using any of it except the HDD (haven't even an SSD lol)

My first thoughts were either the RTX 2070 supper or the RX 5700XT for 1440p....

 

[tamzzy]

mobo will need a bios flash to work with ryzen 3000 cpu. bios flash can be done without a cpu.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £299.99
• 1 x MSI B450M Mortar (Socket AM4) DDR4 mATX Motherboard= £88.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £89.99
• 1 x KFA2 GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER EX 1CLICK-OC 8192MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £479.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Whisper M Series 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £89.99
• 1 x Corsair Force MP510 series 960GB NVMe PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive (CSSD-F960GBMP510)= £149.99
• 1 x Kolink Citadel Micro-ATX Case - Black= £37.99
• 1 x Three Fan Bundle - BitFenix Spectre Plain BLACK 120mm Fan= £9.95

Total: £1,246.88 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

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[4K8KW10]

Hi all,

After about 6 years my I5 3570k has blown on me and im now looking to upgrade

My budget is between 1k and 1.5k and im looking to game at 1440p (monitor not required)

Im kind of swayed towards AMD but in all honestly im not that fussed as long as im getting bang for buck.

Any advise would be most welcomed

Thanks
Gav

Hi,

How about this:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 64 Nitro+ 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £299.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £299.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB (2*8GB) 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Kit= £119.99
• 1 x Scythe SCMG-5PCGH Mugen 5 "PCGH Edition" CPU Cooler= £46.99
• 1 x Corsair Force MP510 series 480GB NVMe PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive (CSSD-F480GBMP510)= £79.99
• 1 x Seasonic Snow Silent 750W '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply - White= £99.95
• 1 x Aerocool Battlehawk V2 Midi Tower Case - White= £41.99
• 1 x Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard= £259.99

Total: £1,248.88 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

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[EsaT]

Its all around 6 years old and wouldn't really feel comfortable using any of it except the HDD (haven't even an SSD lol)

Good quality PSU would be mid aged at 6 years.
And good case lasts, mine is 11 years old.
Of course if you're giving(/dumping) old PC to be someone else's joy(/problem) those can't be reused.

For SSD would be aiming at 1TB.
There's only little if any difference in game loading times between NVMe and SATA SSDs:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nvme+ssd+hdd
So paying more per GB than in Corsair MP510 is waste of money.
Of course SATA SSD should be again cheaper than it tro be sensible.