Looking to upgrade my current setup, been out of the game for awhile!

David Northmore

David Northmore

David Northmore

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Hi there!

Hope I can get some help on this, it's been a long time since I've kept any close eye on the current parts market and I'm looking to upgrade my current gaming rig especially as I do a lot of VR gaming.

Here are my current specs:

System
  • CPU
    Intel Core i9 7900X 4500MHz Skylake-X
  • Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Rampage VI Apex
  • RAM
    HyperX Predator HX424C12PB3/8 Memory 2400 MHz DDR4 (4x 8GB / 32GB)
  • GPU
    Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming OC 11264MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card
  • Case
    Corsair Graphite 760T V2 Windowed Full Tower Case - White
  • Storage
    Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (OS)
    Samsund SSD 970 Evo Plus 1TB (Gaming Storage)
    Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB (backup drive)
    Seagate ST2000DM001 2TB SATA III Performance Hard Disk Drive (Backup Drive)
    Western Digital WD10EADS-00L5B1 3.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive 1TB Caviar Green 7200 32MB (Misc use drive)
  • PSU
    Corsair Professional Series HX 1200W '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply
  • Display(s)
    Asus ROG Strix XG32V Curved Gaming Monitor (Main Monitor)

    Acer Predator XB281HK 4k (2nd monitor)
  • Cooling
    2 x Noctua Fans + 2 Fan AIO cooling system (can't recall name at this time)
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 64bit

While I'm pretty loyal to Intel, I have heard that AMD have been doing decently in the CPU game, I don't think I need to upgrade my GPU but any advice is greatly appreciated!
 
I found that I seem to get major FPS drops in a lot of VR games as well as desktop games (such as Hell Let Loose), I know my GPU is fine but I feel that I'm being throttled somewhere performance wise.
 
keenan said:
You're very likely looking at £600 minimum if you want to upgrade just the base cpu, motherboard and ram to something like a Ryzen 5800X..

With that PC you really shouldn't have any slowdowns unless they are heat/throttling related!
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This is the general response I've been getting, but I don't think its heat related. I'd setup my RGB as a makeshift heat gauge, red = 80+ and I've never seen it hit that when gaming.

I do have some old storage in this setup, maybe that could be contributing to the bad frames and slow response?

And could the motherboard be throttling the performance at all?
 
keenan said:
There could always be a small chance of slowdowns running a game from an old mechanical harddrive if it's not functioning properly..

As far as motherboard goes, throttling is highly unlikely as the vrm's normally function fine well over 100'C, but you could check..

Is your CPU overclocked? If so, is it 100% stable?

You could monitor the cpu temps/speeds with hwinfo while running something like Cinebench R20 and see if it overheats or throttles..
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I have used cinebench and everything looked alright, as for the OC that should be stable as its the profile that came with the pre-build originally from OCUK themselves.

Maybe a full on blitz clean and removing old HDDs could be a good first step?

And in regards to cooling, I could always improve it further so that it's ready for any future changes, any suggestions on that?
 
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