Computer upgrades on a partially 8 year old system

Bobybobp

Bobybobp

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Hi all,

I've just recently bought a new 2k 144hz monitor for my gaming PC (CHG70 which is awesome) and while I knew that I would eventually have to buy a new CPU to keep up I didn't quite imagine it would be so soon. Playing games in the new 2k resolution is now bottle necking my GPU and causing me to lose quite a lot of frames.

As such I'm now looking to upgrade my CPU, which also means I need to upgrade my motherboard, which also means I need to upgrade my RAM and PSU and probably my CPU fan.

I'm hoping to keep the costs down a bit for this but could go up to around £650 if required.

Would any of you lovely people be able to help spec me some of these components?

My specs:

GeForce GTX 1080Ti

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Overclocked to 4.2GHz

Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Microsoft Windows 10

Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 700W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

Sandisk Ultra SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA II Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDH-120G-G25)

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D 500GB SATA 6GB/s 16MB Cache - OEM (0F13178)

Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU)

Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C

Akasa AK-CC4007EP01 Nero 3 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366/2011/AMD AM2/AM2+/AM3/FM1)

Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case
 
Boby, the new AMD chips and boards should be released May 27th or days after. I'd just limit the fps for now so the 3570K can handle it better, and upgrade in June after you see reviews.

Meantime RAM prices ought to continue dropping some more. And of course CPU prices/options should improve with the increased Ryzen 3XXX competition.
 
For best bang for the buck it's definitely best to wait for Zen2 Ryzens before doing any CPU change.
Some rumours put also AMD's Navi graphics cards launch into E3, so there's some hope for genuine competition also in GPUs at summer.

Though would suggest buying new PSU already now.
Antec HCG Gold is simply in extremely good discount:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/antec-hcg-gold-650w-80-plus-gold-modular-power-supply-ca-24w-an.html
Won't often get such high end 10 year warranty fully modular PSUs for that price.
 
Q3 (first week) is still release date for x570 , end of computex is 3rd June if I recall .
Dates might of been bought forward from first NDAs though , was week early for previous two launches


And as above.. buy that PSU !
 
Bobybobp said:
Thank guys, always good advice :) I'll wait out for the new AMD chips and grab myself that PSU.
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looking forward to seeing a 9700k 5ghz and ryzen 3000 8 core battle !

though hopefully ryzen powering next gen consoles as well as DX12 and vulkan being used more , games I play are either 2 core bound or play at higher res so its GPU power I need , any higher core count doesn't take my fancy
 
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