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cellieb

cellieb

cellieb

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Hi all. It's been a while!! I want to upgrade my PC for 1440p gaming and beyond. Mainly play fps games including the HORRIBLY optimised Escape from Tarkov. I currently have my old faithful 1080 GPU with 32g old RAM and a Ryzen 7 2700X.

I have a HP 27xq as a main monitor which I am happy to keep short term along with ancillaries but i suspect everything else needs changing. Budget as close to £1000 as possible but I quite like the relative value of the 7800XT GPU coupled with maybe a 7800X3D?

Am I way off?

Thanks.

James
 
You would need to allow a few hundred extra I think.

You’d basically spend your £1k on the CPU, GPU and Mobo.

Do you have a case or any storage to re-use? Would help if you listed out your exact parts now and your absolute max budget.
 
A 7800 XT nitro was going for just under 400 recently or the 7700 XT has been on sale for 300. 7800X3D may drop too with the upcoming release of the 9800X3D.
 
Hi.

£450 7800xt
£350 7800x3d
£100 memory
£150 motherboard
£100 PSU
£50 + case
£30 CPU cooler.
£100 2tb m2

£1350 roughly depending on choices.
 
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I'd like to do it in one go and then forget about it for 5 years like I did last time :D

I have some small SSD and windows but it was a 2nd hand set up so no windows key. I think best to assume I need a complete system. Could stretch to £1,500 if that's where the sensible money is. Is the CPU/GPU pairing logical?
 
cellieb said:
I'd like to do it in one go and then forget about it for 5 years like I did last time :D

I have some small SSD and windows but it was a 2nd hand set up so no windows key. I think best to assume I need a complete system. Could stretch to £1,500 if that's where the sensible money is. Is the CPU/GPU pairing logical?
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Yes the 7800x3d and a 7800xt would be good at 1440p , if you want to use your extra budget then you can get a 7900xt for around £620, that's what I would push to.
 
As a much cheaper alternative you could drop a 5700x3d/5800x3d into your current motherboard which will need the bios updating. Which motherboard do you have? As long as your memory is 3000/3200mhz you are fine with that as well. Spend the rest on a very good gpu. What make and model is your psu and how old is it?
 
I think my RAM is 4x8g Corsair CMK16GX4M2D3000C16W Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 MHz. Can I do anything with that to speed it up given that windows reading?

Looking at compatibility with my mobo and CPU it should be capable at running 3200hz?
 
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cellieb said:
I think my RAM is 4x8g Corsair CMK16GX4M2D3000C16W Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 MHz. Can I do anything with that to speed it up given that windows reading?

Looking at compatibility with my mobo and CPU it should be capable at running 3200hz?
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It's fine you won't gain much by increasing the ram frequency.

So are you going for a new pc or the 5700x3d option , if the x3d what you want to spend on a GPU and also tell us the make and model of your PSU.
 
cpu: update bios and put a

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D straight into your existing AM4 socket.,cpu job done​

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only £135. from elsewhere, as it's only on pre order here, and an awful lot more expensive​

then decide on your own gpu choice, it's hard to say what, without you listing your current psu​

really you should go for an AM5 new system but I think that you could hobble along with that cpu upgrade, with a possible psu upgrade and a new gpu( quite a bit cheaper in all!)​

 
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Thanks all. I will take a look at my PSU and report back. If I get the 5800X3D and say a 7800XT I can always take those onto a new build in the future so nothing wasted. Same for a new PSU if I need one I guess.
 
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cellieb said:
Thanks all. I will take a look at my PSU and report back. If I get the 5800X3D and say a 7800XT I can always take those onto a new build in the future so nothing wasted. Same for a new PSU if I need one I guess.
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bear in mind that the 58003d will only work in an AM4 socket
I'd defiinitely go down the 58003d route at only £135 though, that is a no-brainer, but yes, you could reuse a psu if you got one now, but with the cpu, gpu and psu upgrade you will be sorted for ages , the 58003d can even run a 4090 with no bottleneck!
 
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I think my RAM is 4x8g Corsair CMK16GX4M2D3000C16W Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 MHz. Can I do anything with that to speed it up given that windows reading?

Looking at compatibility with my mobo and CPU it should be capable at running 3200hz?
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If you go into the bios, you will need to look in OC options.
Load xmp
Set voltage to 1.35v
Restart
Check in windows, I use hwinfo64.

On the side of the ram there is a "ver. X.XX" Where X is numbers. Depending on the numbers, you can OC as these relate to the type of ram you have. Corsair is exceptionally good at filling it's SKUs so chances are you won't get much headway.
 
My PSU is a evga 600w 100-w1-0600

I went into BIOS and enabled XMP with a preset profile that upped the voltage to 1.35v. Weirdly hwinfo64 is reporting a speed of 1500 now?
 
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mickyflinn said:
Yes the 7800x3d and a 7800xt would be good at 1440p , if you want to use your extra budget then you can get a 7900xt for around £620, that's what I would push to.
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definately i run a 7800x3d with a sapphire pulse 7800xt and it is brilliant at 1440p and even my old am4 rig with the same graphics card and a ryzen 5700x performed great as well :)
 
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