advice required - keep pre built or build my own

[sunshinewelly]

I currently have an old case with a i5 3750k , 8gb ram and GTX1080. I game at 4k where possible on a TV so higher than 60fps is not something i need.

Whilst playing assassins creed odysey i have noted that my CPU is now showing its age.

My first choice was picking up a dell alienwear R7
i7 8700, 16GB ram, with a GTX1080. - that came to £850 - my thought was i could possibly sell my current pc for around £450 to £500 (might be optimistic on that).The alienwear only has a 460 psu so i will need to replace that if i wanted to upgrade my GPU at some point

thats being delivered today and i have 14 days to decide to keep it.

however after seeing the ryzen 2700 crash prices this weekend i picked one up for £155.

so now thinking about just building my own ryzen build and then would have the option of picking up a ryzen 3000 next year. I have not built my own pc before but can fit a CPU etc so assume its not overly complicated to do so.



any thoughts would be appreciated

 

[orbitalwalsh]

i7 8700 still clocks higher then ryzen 2700x - 4.3ghz all core boost vs 3.7/8ghz of Ryzen. Max single/dual core is 4.6ghz vs 4.3ghz .
if you've got the Ryzen 2700 non X then your all core bosot is 3.4ghz and max dual/single is 4.1ghz

both ideally need aftermarket coolers , nothing to extreme though as temps can play a key part.
core count also plays a part, most recent games, 6 cores is still the top end and 8 cores doesn't give that much. Only cases would be The division 2 which was helped with AMD . DX12 is meant to help higher core counts but most aren't coded the best and really help 4 core 8 thread cpu more then anything

https://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/software/the_division_2_pc_performance_review/6

4K - would want a 2080ti is you can or 1080ti/2080 !

if building your own means you can get a ryzen rig WITH a 2080 or 2080ti/ Vega 7 then do so!!!