Good afternoon Gents& Ladies. Upgrade advice is needed kindly, please.

Adrian82

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I have a 34" AIO which I feel like I need to upgrade mainly because of the upgrade from 1080Ti to RTX 3080Ti. The existing specs are:
MB: Asus Strix Z270I Gaming(LGA1151)
CPU: I7 7700K
RAM: 32 GB Corsair Vengeance
GPU: Geforce RTX 3080Ti(EVGA)
PSU: 850W GS (EVGA)

What I was considering buying:
Rog Max Hero Z690 Wifi OR Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Xtreme
I9 (16C) 12900KS 3.4Ghz 30 Mbc
RTX 3080Ti EVGA ( I already have it, hence the upgrade needed)
32 GB Corsair Dominator platinum 4800 or 5600
PSU: existing or probably needed to go for 1000W (Considering Corsair 1000W RMX 80+G) - advice Wellcome
Cooling: Corsair iCue H150i OR EVGA CLC 360mm OR ELITE Lcd Display RGB 290W TDP

The more experienced guys, please give me advice on this, as a constructor, passionate gamer of old RPG's but crap at knowledge about which motherboard goes well with which memory.
Also, I have a huge dilemma ongoing for DDR4 or 5, mainly because of the price, not knowing if it worth's the investigation, to be honest.
I thank all of you in advance and I wish you a great day.

Regards,

Adrian.
 
Honestly save yourself a bunch of money and get a 12700k or 5800x3d and get gaming performance within a couple % of the 12900ks

I don't think buying DDR5 now is worth it. specially if you already have DDR4 you can use. DDR5 should get faster and cheaper over the next couple years (unless something terrible happens). And basically all the test show very little performance increase at the moment
 
You're spending way more than you need to there, if you get a 12700, DDR4 and a motherboard half the price you won't notice the difference in games at higher resolutions (which I assume you're using, with a 3080 Ti.
 
Rog Max Hero Z690 Wifi OR Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Xtreme


Those are hideously overpriced motherboards and you can get the same functionality from a £400 MSI board.

Agree with the point about the 12900K being overpriced and a 12700K or 5800X3D being better value for money with 90% of the performance.
 
I'd probably do a cheap upgrade now like a B550 / 5700X or a 12600k / z690 to keep the GPU happy and then do a big upgrade when you upgrade the card by which time DDR5 will be up to speed and next gen platforms will be out.
 
Adrian82 said:
The more experienced guys, please give me advice on this, as a constructor, passionate gamer of old RPG's but crap at knowledge about which motherboard goes well with which memory.
Also, I have a huge dilemma ongoing for DDR4 or 5, mainly because of the price, not knowing if it worth's the investigation, to be honest.
I thank all of you in advance and I wish you a great day.
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Well I'll be totally frank, if you wanna pee money up the wall and add no extra performance buy one of the motherboards you listed and the 12900KS. However if you want to spend a lot less money and have virtually the same performance (mainly identical in games) then dump the idea of the expensive board 12900KS, and DDR5. For the price of the Asus motherboard alone, you could get an i7 12700KF, Z690 and 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM.

What is the purpose of spending so much money on such a high end board, give an honest answer to us, and yourself? What benefit is it going to offer you that you'll use? Or do you just think spending more = better? Do you need 4x M.2 slots, and heatsinks splatted all over the board?

If you just want the looks of the board etc, then go for it, I mean who should be telling you that spending £1000 more is a bad idea. £1700 vs £700 though, for fractional performance gains. You could spend another £700 in 18 months and end up with a better (more future proof) system again, and still have £300 in your bank from the original £1700.

Yes, sorry to be a bit ranty, but these daft CPU's and boards are an infuriating waste of money. :)
 
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