Getting "antsy" with my 5820K

TechMinerUK · 8 Jan 2019 at 22:49

Hi all,

I'm looking to "spritz" up my PC with some new hardware to get some newer features/better fan control (Mainly motherboard bits). I've not got a massive budget to do it with (£400-£500ish plus any from selling parts)

My main concern for the current system is although I could get a new motherboard their isn't much choice for MATX>= and what is out there is quite expensive considering it is not the newest architecture.

My current system is:
5820K stock clock
EVGA X99 Micro 2
32GB Corsair Vengeance 3200MHz RAM
GTX 1080 Reference (Edit: It's not a Ti, my brain was on autopilot for that bit)
Samsung 845 Pro SSD (850GB)

So, if you were in this situation would you go new board/CPU, new board or stick for a while? (Any help is greatly appreciated as I'm just looping at the moment)

OpenToSuggestions · 8 Jan 2019 at 23:00

I don't understand what features you are looking for, as you have a high end CPU, decent motherboard with an M2 slot and a 1080Ti.
Definitely overclock the CPU. If you have a stock cooler upgrade that. You haven't stated the size of you ram, so if need be upgrade to 16GB.
The rest is a real waste of money. Perhaps upgrade the monitor?

subbytna · 9 Jan 2019 at 10:11

Stick a AIO cooler on that CPU and clock the nuts off it. It is still a high end CPU with enough grunt for most games with that GPU.

Minstadave · 9 Jan 2019 at 10:20

I almost upgraded to Threadripper from my 5820K, had bought the mono but sent it back because it's likely the 7nm Ryzen will be monsters. Glad I didn't too because my 5820K is still plenty fast.

I'll either go to the high end Ryzen chips if they come with 16cores or to Threadripper 2 this year. That'll be a massive upgrade.

TechMinerUK · 9 Jan 2019 at 13:13

OpenToSuggestions said:
I don't understand what features you are looking for, as you have a high end CPU, decent motherboard with an M2 slot and a 1080Ti.
Definitely overclock the CPU. If you have a stock cooler upgrade that. You haven't stated the size of you ram, so if need be upgrade to 16GB.
The rest is a real waste of money. Perhaps upgrade the monitor?

I have 32GB of DDR4 and in all honestly it's mainly just the motherboard UEFI GUI and fan control (For the record my monitor is a Acer Ultrawide so that's good for the time being). Mainly I'm looking to see if I am just wasting my money on this platform on the newer one

subbytna said:
Stick a AIO cooler on that CPU and clock the nuts off it. It is still a high end CPU with enough grunt for most games with that GPU.

That might be a decent shout as the H60 I've got was "supposed" to be a temporary measure

Minstadave said:
I almost upgraded to Threadripper from my 5820K, had bought the mono but sent it back because it's likely the 7nm Ryzen will be monsters. Glad I didn't too because my 5820K is still plenty fast.
I'll either go to the high end Ryzen chips if they come with 16cores or to Threadripper 2 this year. That'll be a massive upgrade.

When are the higher end Ryzen chips supposed to be making there way to GA?

Distracted · 9 Jan 2019 at 13:16

TechMinerUK said:
When are the higher end Ryzen chips supposed to be making there way to GA?

There's more info expected in a few hours when the AMD event starts. Rumours have availability of the new CPUs as possibly April sometime.

TechMinerUK · 11 Jan 2019 at 21:08

Distracted said:
There's more info expected in a few hours when the AMD event starts. Rumours have availability of the new CPUs as possibly April sometime.

I watched the launch and it looks like it's coming "Mid 2019" so I'm wondering if it will be worth the wait or if I'm just wasting my money

Minstadave · 11 Jan 2019 at 21:42

I'll be waiting. 5820K is hardly slow and a bump to 16 cores will be worth the wait.

Distracted · 11 Jan 2019 at 23:35

Yeah, it is looking less like April and more like June.

TechMinerUK · 12 Jan 2019 at 19:19

Minstadave said:
I'll be waiting. 5820K is hardly slow and a bump to 16 cores will be worth the wait.

Distracted said:
Yeah, it is looking less like April and more like June.

Bugger, looks like I'm in it for the long haul then (Just want a decent MATX board for the 5820K really but can't see the point in getting one when theres a new chipset on the horizon)

MaXxBoulton · 12 Jan 2019 at 19:28

TechMinerUK said:
Bugger, looks like I'm in it for the long haul then (Just want a decent MATX board for the 5820K really but can't see the point in getting one when theres a new chipset on the horizon)

the board you have is probably the best mATX board you can get

EVGA X99 Micro 2

TechMinerUK · 13 Jan 2019 at 09:43

MaXxBoulton said:
the board you have is probably the best mATX board you can get
EVGA X99 Micro 2

It's not a bad board in all fairness, I just prefer ASUS for their UEFI

MaXxBoulton · 13 Jan 2019 at 11:53

TechMinerUK said:
It's not a bad board in all fairness, I just prefer ASUS for their UEFI

Yer I get what your saying I have a gigabyte board with now and you bios is horrible. I do like the way msi feels

TechMinerUK · 15 Jan 2019 at 21:31

MaXxBoulton said:
Yer I get what your saying I have a gigabyte board with now and you bios is horrible. I do like the way msi feels

I know technically the board I have is probably better but ASUS is generally what I'm used to and I find their fan control software to be a lot better too