Help :) AMD or intel ? New custom build

k1lem

k1lem

k1lem

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Good Evening all,

I'm after some advice, it's been a while since i upgraded.

I'm purely a gamer, literally nothing else on the PC.

Currently running i5 - 4690 with a gtx 1060 and 16gb ddr 3 ram.

I'm looking at a budget of £1500 - 1700.

Was thinking 2700x paired with rtx 2080 ? I would appreciate any help anyone could offer.

thank you in advance! ;)
 
Welcome to the forum, K1lem.

k1lem said:
I would appreciate any help anyone could offer.
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Keeping anything from present system or flogging it all?

Which monitor (resolution and refresh rate and whether any Gsync or Freesync) will you be running with or do you want a new one included in the budget?

A reason for the upgrade (even though "old") wouldn't hurt either.
 
Thank you Danny.

Keeping nothing from my current pc.

I have a dell s2716dg 144hz 2560 x 1440 gsync monitor.

Reason for upgrade pc is to make use of my 144hz monitor and have a more enjoyable gaming experience. Currently getting a lot of stuttering and frame drops. I've looked at getting a gpu upgrade but anything above a 1060 is going to bottleneck.

Cheers
 
Thanks that's good info.

At 1440p the difference between AMD and Intel is less pronounced, and I'd go with AMD. For pure gaming literally nothing else, the fastest 6-core they have, with a good motherboard to give you the option of 8 or 12-core upgrade with new Ryzen 3xxx series.

There's another way of looking at it - for pure gaming literally nothing else, go Intel. Only thing is you pay more for what, 120 fps instead of 110 fps (to quote a common figure in the 1440p game benchmarks which don't have them even closer), when tweaking a setting that makes no visual difference will close that gap. And you lock yourself out of whatever Ryzen 3xxx brings to the table. Choice up to you, just my opinion.

Touch of white (based on coming across special offer on the PSU and an RTX 2080 with triple fan cooler in white):

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £630.00 (includes shipping: £14.10)​
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Add 2600X for around £180 elsewhere, or wait for OcUK price to come down/ask for pricematch.
Add Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro white 3200MHz for around £135, not currently available at OcUK.
Add Gigabyte RTX 2080 Gaming OC white for £710, not currently available at OcUK.

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Total - £1655.00


You want more black, or gun metal look, just say so. You want Intel, say so. You don't care one whit about looks, don't mind cheaper case etc, say so. Want one SSD for everything instead of split OS and Games drive? Etc. Will help refine further specs by others and/or myself. :)
 
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Danny75 said:
Want one SSD for everything instead of split OS and Games drive?
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Better to always have own partition for OS in case it craps itself needs complete cleaning through good old "format C:".
But that partitioning can be done on any drive so dropping NVME drive would be easy save.

Or with very little real world speed difference from NVMe also that drive could be changed to SATA-signaled for lower price or half TB capacity for pretty much same price.
Best speedup is not needing HDDs.
 
EsaT said:
Better to always have own partition for OS in case it craps itself needs complete cleaning through good old "format C:".
But that partitioning can be done on any drive so dropping NVME drive would be easy save.

Or with very little real world speed difference from NVMe also that drive could be changed to SATA-signaled for lower price or half TB capacity for pretty much same price.
Best speedup is not needing HDDs.
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Definitely partition for Windows if one drive, yes. I prefer a separate drive for games but it's mostly superstition, as I have no way of proving there's a difference in performance with games on same drive. I've had Windows problems with both scenarios. Do I have less now? Maybe. Maybe not. Can't prove it, therefore superstition or placebo. :) Just feel that whenever Windows goes nuts writing while I'm playing a game (SleepStudy getting triggered by playing GTA springs to mind, writing 20GB in 1 hour), that it won't affect gameplay as much if the game is stored on another drive (even though bits of the game will still be in the OS drive).
 
EsaT said:
No reason to allow that bloatware to run in desk PC.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/6p4jxo/so_whats_this_sleepstudy_thing_and_why_does_it/
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Agreed. I set it to read only the moment I caught it, was just an example. It came back with every feature update, and then with the last update it would re-enable write after a day or two. So apart from making it read only, I went into the folder's properties > security, and edited permissions to remove "SYSTEM". It hasn't come back this time (so far).
 
going for ryzen, push 2700x over 2600x- 80% of game son steam you'll find the i5 clocked to 4.5/7ghz will run faster then ryzen 2600x . Most recent titles like BFV or Ac:O will take advantage of the extra cores due to better coding or fact networking hammers the CPU .
 
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