Could use advice on hardware for a pre-built

vexxeh

vexxeh

vexxeh

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Hi all,

Cheers for taking the time, I'm looking for advice on parts for a new system, was looking at the builds on OC, coffee lake and Ryzen.

Looking to spend around £1700, will be primarily a gaming rig, dont stream or work at home. No need for peripherals or a monitor, have a 1080 144hz monitor already. Will probably get a second one at some point but all good at the moment.

When looking myself, I just couldnt decide on a CPU, was looking at the RTX 2060 Strix OC as my GPU but any help on this build is appreciated!

Thanks all!
 
If you have the use of a system already and aren't in a terrible rush, the announcement on Monday 27th by AMD may wrap up your CPU decision for you, with the actual release of the Zen 2 CPUs (AKA Ryzen 3XXX) expected no later than late June/early July. They will be faster than current Ryzen with better IPC and alleged higher clocks, and the motherboards (or some of them) are rumoured to be cracking (in a good way...).

There may also be news on AMD Navi GPUs.
 
If your current PC isn't literally falling apart it would be good to wait little.
Computex next week should shows how much value current CPUs have left.

Neither side is simply optimal for any longer term, at least if you can't yourself change parts later.
And leaky architecture CPUs Intel doesn't even have upgrade path.
Because Intel likes screwing consumers to every hole and changes CPU sockets motherboards even without real architectural changes in CPUs.
Current CPUs are architecturally still 6th gen Skylakes.
 
Cheers for the info!

Current rig has seem better days, ole i5 4690k that's starting to run a bit hot and a 960 GTX. Just moved house and since settling something is causing major stutter in game and at desktop, reason I thought about chucking and upgrading.

If waiting would be worth it then can tinker and make do!
 
Could try re-seating the GPU. Only thing I can think of that could cause that, after being moved around a bit. I think if it was the RAM (which you can always re-seat too anyway) you'd be getting crashes and/or other errors.

In general though, four core/four thread CPUs do now struggle with certain games and depending on the GPU it's paired with, and screen resolution. But that wouldn't be causing stutter in desktop.
 
I went with 9700k for the gaming rig, Hyper Threading is ruined and requires patching anyways and in gaming situation just adds heat that could be used pushing frequencies. Got it running at 5.2 and never regretted my decision. In my book the top chip for gaming.
 
Also I highly recommend the Maximus XI Apex for the board or if you want to save little bit can get the Aorus Master Z390, that one is top notch as well and has 2 more ram slots, but for gaming rig you don't need nothing more than 2x8GB
 
Was looking at the i7 9700k, then thought the i5 9600k would be fine for gaming but if the Ryzen 3000 is going to show up with a bang, maybe worth waiting.

Though about overclocking the i5 but just worried that in future the lack of cores will bottleneck the rig, then again not even sure how many games these days utilise multiple cores and how long it would take to become a problem.

Thanks for all the info so far!
 
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