Hoping to upgrade this year, what to wait for?

[DEL 707]

What's the issue with your current build?

This is the basics of my build.

Ryzen 7 2700X
Gigabyte X370 Gaming K7 Motherboard
3200 RAM
Gigabyte Vega 64

I've never been able to get the RAM to run at 3200Mhz, it does wierd and wonderful things.
I've been posting around since I built this thing. Some people have put the blame on the RAM, motherboard or the CPU.
Long story short I'm not happy with my build, especially with this Gigabyte GPU, but that's another story.

This month and September I believe.

That is very nice to hear, I was worried the new launches were going to be put back.

 

[Richdog]

The more research I do the more I think the AMD 3600 is the CPU to get, combined with an X570 Tomahawk. Better to spend 100 less on the CPU, 100 more on the fully featured motherboard, do a bit of overclocking and have a strong platform that I can pop a beastly Zen3 into at some point in 2021.

 

[thewanted]

The more research I do the more I think the AMD 3600 is the CPU to get, combined with an X570 Tomahawk. Better to spend 100 less on the CPU, 100 more on the fully featured motherboard, do a bit of overclocking and have a strong platform that I can pop a beastly Zen3 into at some point in 2021.

I think the difficult question to answer at the moment is which RAM to buy.

 

[Richdog]

I think the difficult question to answer at the moment is which RAM to buy.

I just went with 16GB of Adata Spectric D60G as it was significantly cheaper than any other kit where I live and it gets great reviews in general https://thinkcomputers.org/adata-xpg-spectrix-d60g-ddr4-3200-16gb-memory-kit-review/6/

 

[Participant]

To everyone saying 32GB RAM isn't need for gaming at the moment, that's true but just to say that the new Microsoft Flight Simulator's ideal specs quote 32GB of RAM.

 

[C64]

2x 16gb sticks should be the play

 

[Richdog]

2x 16gb sticks should be the play

Yeah, I have since revised my opinion and ended up buying 32GB of G.Skill Trident Z Neo CL16. I may not need it at the moment but if I am building a high-end now then it makes sense to not run into any limits in a year when new versions of Windows etc arrive. Plus the price was better than I thought.