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Ephraim

Ephraim

Ephraim

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So, it's been a little while since I last did anything fundamental to my PC, and I think it's heading towards time for an upgrade. I'm vastly out of the loop, and last time I was around here, AMD were on a downstroke. I can see from a little poking about that they seem to be the recommendation of choice.

So, where should I go from here?
Currently:
Intel i5 4670k @stock
BeQuiet Shadow Rock Pro cooler
16Gb Samsung Green 1600
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
MSI GamingX 1080GTX
Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB SSD
Crucial MX500 1TB SSD
Nanoxia Deep Silence 1
I think that the PSU is an 850 corsair modular jobbie, probably from 2014/2015

I have an HTC Vive, which I use for the occasional foray into Elite Dangerous. I might like to use it with Star Wars Squadrons when it arrives. Monitors are 2 x 23" GSYNC Dells.

I'm open to any suggestions. I can manage about £300 expenditure today, or £800 in 3 months time. Budget can be pushed if I can recoup money from selling stuff.

I know that there are new things coming, but aren't there always? Are they likely to be enough of a difference to be worth waiting for?
 
I think you best upgrade would be 6-8 core Ryzen 3rd gen (or 2700X if you find one well priced), 16-32GB of DDR4 3200+, and pretty much any motherboard with a reasonable VRM

I think you could just about do that for £400, but not £300 I don't think. Slightly more for 32GB of RAM but 16 should suffice for a couple of years yet.
 
Atm with a minimum of £370, the best you could do is a base 3600 upgrade like the below. Tbh your GPU is still very capable, your SSDs are re-useable as well.

It would be a very good upgrade still, as your CPU is holding you back more than anything with your old rig.

But personally I'd want an ATX mobo, the mATX is just to get as close to your budget as possible. The ATX version is £40 more though, so it's just extra cost as well.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £369.97 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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Definitely, you'll have more choice by then hopefully. Prices may have come down on the current gen as well.

Supposedly AMD should be releasing their Zen 3 CPUs (Ryzen 4xxx) and Nvidia their Ampere GPUs (RTX 3xxx) around Aug/Sep time, so prob best to look around again then.
 
Tbh the above build looks fine and then in a few months spend the rest on a next gen Gpu as with that sort of budget you want to drop the majority of it on the Gpu anyway.
 
He could and it would still be a great rig, but if he doesn't mind waiting a few months to get more £££ - the new CPU/GPUs will be out, he'll have more choice and may even get better performance from a Zen 3 CPU too for similar cost.

Edit: Just heard the Zen 3 CPUs aren’t releasing until Q4 so looking Oct-Dec time now.
 
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