Advice on components

ThatDuckSauce

ThatDuckSauce

ThatDuckSauce

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Hi all,

So tomorrow I'm looking at purchasing some upgrades for my machine. My current cpu is way outdated and struggles at times....its an AMD Athlon II x4 640 processor XD

At the moment I have in mind the following:

Gigabyte Z370P motherboard (1151 socket)
Intel i5-8400 hexacore coffee lake series processor
Kingston Fury 8gb DDR4 ram

My current graphics card is a GTX 660 TI which will do for a couple of months....

As far as tasks are concerned, I do a lot of gaming (mostly swtor, guild wars 2, planetbase, minecraft and sometimes a few other games but nothing majorly extraneous). I'm aiming to resume my video producing and recording in game as well as some streaming via Twitch too.

Would the above upgrades be fine for the prices expected (they come to around £365 in total) or would I be better going for an AMD and Ryzen kind of build?

Thanks guys!
 
Definitely Ryzen given you are wanting to do video production and streaming as well.

i5-8400 is a 6 core 6 thread CPU whilst for the same price you can pick up a Ryzen 2700 which is an 8 core 16 thread CPU. That's not even close in terms of video production/multitasking, and 8c16t is much much more futureproof which I assume is important to you as you've had your last CPU for 6-7 years?

Grab a B450 Tomahawk motherboard, a good set of DDR4 ram (3000mhz if you can), and a Ryzen 2700.
 
A B450 Tomahawk mobo is ~£95

You can find a Ryzen 2700 for ~£215 (but not on overclockers, but a quick google for a Ryzen 2700 should see you on your way as we are not allowed to mention competitors)

And DDR4 8gb ~ £65 (though I really really recommend upping your budget and getting 16gb, 8gb don't cut it these days).

Alternatively, you can save £60-70 by getting a Ryzen 2600 which is 6 cores and 12 threads, and spending that £60-70 on more ram.
 
ThatDuckSauce said:
would it be a noticeable difference in performance for my tasks downsizing to a 2600 though?
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Compared to a i5-8400, not really. Compared to a 2700, yes. But then I'm not even sure if you can do video editing of 1080p - 4k vids with 8gb of ram these days. I'm not into that stuff so you might know more, but as far as I know...
 
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