Bad time to upgrade?

DEL 707 · Tuesday at 18:23

I'm planning on upgrading my graphics card and was thinking of going the whole hog and upgrading my CPU and motherboard.

I have Ryzen 7 5800X and was thinking of jumping up to the Ryzen 7 9700X, which would require me to upgrade to a AM5 motherboard along with DDR5 RAM.

With prices and stock being what it is, am I better off waiting?

throwaway4372 · Tuesday at 18:27

What GPU do you have and what would you get? I suspect it might be better to just do that and see if it's enough.

Buying RAM now is a rip-off as you know. Last I heard was RAM companies saying it'd take a few years to resolve.

That CPU upgrade is decent but not massive, so maybe it's not urgent enough to get ripped off for.

mickyflinn · Tuesday at 18:48

What resolution will you be gaming at ?

tamzzy · Tuesday at 18:52

yeah if you are satisfied with the performance right now then best to hold off the upgrade...
...unless your money is burning a hole in your pocket and you're in desperate need to spend it

hornetstinger · Tuesday at 19:02

DEL 707 said:
I'm planning on upgrading my graphics card and was thinking of going the whole hog and upgrading my CPU and motherboard.

I have Ryzen 7 5800X and was thinking of jumping up to the Ryzen 7 9700X, which would require me to upgrade to a AM5 motherboard along with DDR5 RAM.

With prices and stock being what it is, am I better off waiting?

Look at the price of RAM...it's stupid.

Keep what you have, or upgrade other things, speakers, soundcard, monitor, keyboard, chocolate hobnobs.

jigger · Wednesday at 12:45

Like all of us, I suppose it depends if you’re running out of memory and you’re happy with the performance.

Fluffybob · Wednesday at 13:45

If your current PC isn't cripplingly slow I wouldn't throw money at a new setup at the moment.

freddie64 · Wednesday at 14:43

Do the GPU upgrade first and see how you get on.

How much RAM have you got, 16GB or 32GB?

Actually, what is the full spec of your PC?

Skynet5 · Wednesday at 14:45

only you can decide.

I wanted a new machine for many reasons. The price is what it is.

It’s crap. But only you can decide.

Waiting might be a long wait.

heatonpkmassive · Thursday at 17:24

DEL 707 said:
I'm planning on upgrading my graphics card and was thinking of going the whole hog and upgrading my CPU and motherboard.

I have Ryzen 7 5800X and was thinking of jumping up to the Ryzen 7 9700X, which would require me to upgrade to a AM5 motherboard along with DDR5 RAM.

With prices and stock being what it is, am I better off waiting?

Don't bother with the system unless you want to be ripped off for memory, depending on what GPU you have that might be worth upgrading.