£1k upgrade

[wsurfa]

Hi everyone, looking to upgrade the core of my old rig (currently a i7-6850k ).

Usage will be:
- some photo editing (Lightroom/Photoshop) with a fair amount of storage as I've got about 100-200k photos from about 20 years, plus a lot more from negatives and slides if I get round to scanning & processing them
- video editing (mainly Davinci Resolve) mainly 4k from phones, and DSLR/Mirrorless
- very occasional gaming but not a priority in anyway (and longer gaming is PS getting trounced by my daughter....)

I tend to keep stuff for a while and upgrade CPU if possible, hence I was looking at AM5 as it's likely to have a bit more life.

Plan to keep - but open to advice

PSU: Fractal 860p
Case: Dark Base Pro 900 (I have quite few HDDs and this has a lot of space, plus space for a DVD drive for 4k ripping)
Cooler: Corsair H115i 280 mm (got an AM4/5 bracket somewhere....)
GPU: GTX 1080 8GB (open to options )

Upgrade Plan

CPU: 9900X
Motherboard: MSI MAG X870E TOMAHAWK
Boot drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PRO
RAM: Kingston FURY Beast 64GB (2x 32GB) 5600MT/s

This comes to about £975-1k - open to improvements and additional upgrades, but can't go too bananas as apparently we 'need' a massive oak gazebo in the back garden

Thanks for any advice

 

[tamzzy]

- some photo editing (Lightroom/Photoshop) with a fair amount of storage as I've got about 100-200k photos from about 20 years, plus a lot more from negatives and slides if I get round to scanning & processing them
- video editing (mainly Davinci Resolve) mainly 4k from phones, and DSLR/Mirrorless
- very occasional gaming but not a priority in anyway (and longer gaming is PS getting trounced by my daughter....)

unfortunately for you, adobe and davinci have competing interests, in the sense that adobe is CPU dependent, and davinci is GPU dependent
so for optimal performance, you cannot min-max one or the other, both the CPU and GPU are equally as important. a £1k budget is just about doable i think.

 

[tamzzy]

okay...maybe not so doable then

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core Ultra 7 265K (Arrow Lake) Socket LGA 1851 Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-INT-03111) = £289.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z890 EAGLE WIFI7 (LGA1851) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03487) = £199.99
• 1 x Intel Motherboard Master Key - Star Wars Outlaws (SKU: DIG-INT-04686) = £0.00
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance XMP 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-05105) = £164.99
• 1 x Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (SFYRS/2000G) (SKU: STO-KNG-01330) = £124.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04916) = £399.95

Total: £1,179.91 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[Gray2233]

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF (Arrow Lake) Socket LGA 1851 Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-INT-03112) = £278.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B860M EAGLE (LGA 1851) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-04116) = £129.99
• 1 x Intel Motherboard Master Key - Star Wars Outlaws (SKU: DIG-INT-04686) = £0.00
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 WindForce OC LHR 12GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1FH-GI) = £260.00
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance XMP 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-05105) = £164.98
• 1 x Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (SFYRS/2000G) (SKU: STO-KNG-01330) = £125.00

Total: £966.95 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

Possibly doable, not sure how necessary a full sixed ATX board is. Davinci recommends 12gb of VRAM for 4K but I don't know how well it gets on with the 3060 vs an 8gb more modern card, I suspect it's Nvidia biased also or the 9060XT might have been worth a look. I don't think the 3060 is that much faster outside of features in raw performance gaming wise over a 1080 either.

Edit/Update: Accidentally listed stuff I'd put with AM5, changed it to suit Intel.

 

[tamzzy]

I suspect it's Nvidia biased also or the 9060XT might have been worth a look.

yes it is.

 

[wsurfa]

Surely I could just add the Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti to my AMD build? As the intel LGS1851 is (I've heard on here) effectively a dead end?

Yes that makes a £1400 build, but maybe I'll cut back on the reclaimed clay tiles for the gazebo (don't ask...) What would be a slightly more budget GPU option?

 

[Tetras]

This is a tough ask for £1K.

Intel option

(The CPU can be had a bit cheaper elsewhere, the same B-Grade kit as the AMD build would help too.

AMD have made some improvements on the video/media side of RDNA4, but how well it competes with the 5060 Ti there, I'm not sure?)

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core Ultra 7 265K (Arrow Lake) Socket LGA 1851 Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-INT-03111) = £289.99
• 1 x Asrock Z890 Pro-A (LGA 1851) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-03365) = £182.99
• 1 x Intel Motherboard Master Key - Star Wars Outlaws (SKU: DIG-INT-04686) = £0.00
• 1 x Crucial Pro 48GB (2x24GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C46 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-CRU-01086) = £99.95
• 1 x PowerColor Radeon RX 9060 XT Reaper 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-PWC-05257) = £329.99
• 1 x Team Group MP44L 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TMG-03129) = £99.94
  
• 1 x Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE CPU Cooler - 120mm (SKU: COO-TLR-02665) = £29.99

Total: £1,040.84 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

AMD option

(CPU cooler re-used)

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 7700 Eight Core 5.30GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DV-AM) = £278.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03573) = £130.00
• 1 x B Grade Crucial Pro 48GB (2x24GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C48 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: BG-MEM-CRU-01087) = £89.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04916) = £399.94
• 1 x KIOXIA EXCERIA PLUS G3 2TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-TSH-01121) = £92.99

Total: £999.90 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

 

[Gray2233]

Surely I could just add the Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti to my AMD build? As the intel LGS1851 is (I've heard on here) effectively a dead end?

Yes that makes a £1400 build, but maybe I'll cut back on the reclaimed clay tiles for the gazebo (don't ask...) What would be a slightly more budget GPU option?

I'd say it's worth the extra cost, especially if you edit at 4K.

Nice bit of uplift in gaming too.

 

[wsurfa]

The bargain (ish) option might then be my original but with the 16gb 9060XT? Yes I know I've added c 40% to the budget, but have you seen my wife spec a gazebo? I have , it's terrifying....

 

[tamzzy]

Surely I could just add the Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti to my AMD build? As the intel LGS1851 is (I've heard on here) effectively a dead end?

yes you can add the 5060ti to your AMD build

to be honest, the "longevity" of the AM5 platform is irrelevant if you are going to keep your upgraded system for the next decade
when you come back here in 2034, i'd expect that we'd be telling you that a full platform upgrade is in order, not just simply a CPU swap out

for productivity workloads the 265k is competitive with the 9900x whilst being cheaper

I don't think the 265K will disappoint, it's a solid general usage/productivity CPU for the price and should see some pretty hefty uplift over what you had.

Intel Core Ultra 7 265K Review: Better Value, But...

The Intel Core Ultra 7 265K features 8 P-Cores and 12 E-Cores with improved clock speeds and power efficiency. Let's see how it compares to AMD's lineup...

www.techspot.com

 

[wsurfa]

yes you can add the 5060ti to your AMD build

to be honest, the "longevity" of the AM5 platform is irrelevant if you are going to keep your upgraded system for the next decade
when you come back here in 2034, i'd expect that we'd be telling you that a full platform upgrade is in order, not just simply a CPU swap out

for productivity workloads the 265k is competitive with the 9900x whilst being cheaper

I upgraded the CPU in my current setup 3 times IIRC, plus the GPU once and the ram once. So the idea being not that I leave it static for 10 years, but can stick a decent CPU upgrade into it in 3-5 years time, and possibly find the max AM5 CPU second-hand as the final upgrade. My current CPU was the fastest I could find for the X99 a few years ago from CEX

Thanks for the help - it's really appreciated

 

[tamzzy]

I upgraded the CPU in my current setup 3 times IIRC, plus the GPU once and the ram once. So the idea being not that I leave it static for 10 years, but can stick a decent CPU upgrade into it in 3-5 years time, and possibly find the max AM5 CPU second-hand as the final upgrade. My current CPU was the fastest I could find for the X99 a few years ago from CEX

Thanks for the help - it's really appreciated

9900x + 5060ti 16gb it is then!
tell the wife it's needed!

 

[wsurfa]

9900x + 5060ti 16gb it is then!
tell the wife it's needed!

Ermm, right, can you do that

 

[wsurfa]

I think I'll take the forgiveness over permission route

 

[tamzzy]

Ermm, right, can you do that

being a doctor, i can prescribe you this. take two tablets once only...to be taken prior to telling the wife:

Spoiler

 

[wsurfa]

being a doctor, i can prescribe you this. take two tablets once only...to be taken prior to telling the wife:

Spoiler

I will need many.......

 

[wsurfa]

For comparison the gazebo is £20k, so I feel 7% of that is a fair budget

 

[tamzzy]

For comparison the gazebo is £20k, so I feel 7% of that is a fair budget

i think £2.5k is a better budget, and you can get a 5080 then!

 

[wsurfa]

i think £2.5k is a better budget, and you can get a 5080 then!

You're a bad man...

 

[wsurfa]

Seriously though the 5060ti or the 9060XT - given that gaming is not something I really do anymore