Need to upgrade before current system dies

Helfire

Helfire

Helfire

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Looking to upgrade my very old current system before it finally dies, already lost a memory bank.
Its a real old spec as below Built in 2008.

Gigabyee EX58 Extream i7 920 (Used to be clocked to 4Ghz but runs 3.2 now)
OCZ reaper 12GB 1866, (only 8GB working)
GTX1060 6GB
Custom Water. Antec 1200. 1 x 128GB ssd, 150GB Raptor and a 1TB HDD.
Intel Quad port Nic
Sound blaster X-Fi
Samsung SyncMaster 2693HM monitor @ 1920x1200
Second 24 inch monitor not branded
Corsair PSU

So Looking for something that i can play the odd game on(No mans sky), use photoshop, lightroom, do some video analysis and editing. Large powepoint files / office. Also test run some VM's.

Looking for 32GB memory
around 500GB OS drive
500GB SSD for VM drive
Not to bothered on intel or AMD had both in the past.
Room for future upgrades, cpu, ram graphics.
Dont need mass storage as connected to synology nas.

Looking at around £1000-1200 for the base system keeping the graphics card and the 128GB SSD as a swap disk for photoshop, keep the intel quad port nic for VM's. I imagine the PSU probs a bit dated now.

Suggestions welcome

Thanks
 
Intel for the high IPC. Swap out the Gigabyte board for one of their Aorus range if you want to spend a bit extra - very good motherboards with UK RMA

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,074.04 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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have done storage as NVMe doesn't make VM quicker in a nut shell, unless the VM are being used for workstation based work access and processing a lot of data ( multiple video rendering machines)

list like above but switch to Corsair for better rma and UK support- if a part is broken, they just swap instead of repairing



My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £948.06 (includes shipping: £11.10)​
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Helfire said:
Would anyone recommend AMD ?
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AMD offers upgradeability, which is especially relevant as you specified wanting that. A relatively standard but recommended spec (with 32 GB instead of the usual 16 GB RAM) is:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £495.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Then replace the 2600 with a Ryzen 3 as and when needed, which will likely give Intel a run for their money in areas they used to dominate.
 
Vexr said:
AMD offers upgradeability, which is especially relevant as you specified wanting that. A relatively standard but recommended spec (with 32 GB instead of the usual 16 GB RAM) is:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £495.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Then replace the 2600 with a Ryzen 3 as and when needed, which will likely give Intel a run for their money in areas they used to dominate.
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only problem is your paying £170 for a chip and then £*** for another ryzen chip. easier to go for x570 and wait for 12 core chip, specially for video editing and hope that lightroom and aftereffects works well with ryzen 3*** and its boosted speed.
personally wouldnt use b450 boards with 12 cores ryzen , but x570/b550 will be much better then current gen boards . integration to st party controllers like intel did with b360/z390 is also handy
 
orbitalwalsh said:
only problem is your paying £170 for a chip and then £*** for another ryzen chip. easier to go for x570 and wait for 12 core chip, specially for video editing and hope that lightroom and aftereffects works well with ryzen 3*** and its boosted speed.
personally wouldnt use b450 boards with 12 cores ryzen , but x570/b550 will be much better then current gen boards . integration to st party controllers like intel did with b360/z390 is also handy
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I'm not so sure he'd need to immediately upgrade from a Ryzen 2600. I don't know much about lightroom/aftereffects etc, but considering his upgrade seems to be prompted by his current system being on its way out, and that he currently has an i7-920, a Ryzen 2600 may be more than sufficient for his needs.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-920-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-2600/1981vs3955
 
Vexr said:
I'm not so sure he'd need to immediately upgrade from a Ryzen 2600. I don't know much about lightroom/aftereffects etc, but considering his upgrade seems to be prompted by his current system being on its way out, and that he currently has an i7-920, a Ryzen 2600 may be more than sufficient for his needs.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-920-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-2600/1981vs3955
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Wouldn't see any gains with lightroom /aftereffects .
Needs high speed , cores with strong IPC. Lightroom doesn't use many cores, aftereffects can and still heavily favours intel.

Prem Pro was like this but now it's a lot better and ryzen 2700x 4.3ghz all cores can match 9700k at stock
 
I don’t use lightroom as much as i used to so mainly Office work with some video editing with filmora. Any playing the odd game now and then, and testing the odd VM with hyperV. Probs can keep my existing PSU corsair HX620 hopefully aswell as it was originally specked for duel Graphics, 4 drives and water cooling. But not bothered about overclocking just after a quiet smallish case that will for my 1060 graphics card. Not interested in clear sides on case as i cant see it anyway. So a good motherboard that can take the 32GB plus ram 1or 2 M2 ssd, and if a Ryzen be able to take the new chips in near future aswell. Oh prefer to keep it simple and not water cooling.
 
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