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TL;DR - i5 8400 & r9 380 4gb. Good combo?
I'm currently running an i5 750 (yes, I know) on an Asus P7P55D board with 16GB of DDR3 and a radeon r9 380 4GB (full spec in my bio). It's done me proud for the last 7 years or so but is getting pretty long in the tooth now.
I'm currently looking at the i5 8400 which obviously needs a new board and ram so thinking I might as well make a new build from scratch.
I normally like to build everything myself but I saw that quiet pc do a nofan build which looks quite nice -
Jonsbo UMX4 Zone Black Compact Midi Tower Aluminium Case
ASUS PRIME Z370-A LGA1151 ATX Motherboard
Intel 8th Gen Core i5 8400 65W UHD 630 9MB 6 Cores 6 Threads CPU
Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) 2400MHz Memory Kit
Nofan CR-80EH IcePipe 80W Fanless CPU Cooler (not for K-suffix CPUs)
Nofan P-500A Silent 500W Fanless 80+ GOLD PSU
Samsung SM961 Polaris M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (3200/1700)
for about £1300/£1400 which is pretty much the upper limit of my budget.
So my questions are, would this system run games well and if I keep the r9 380, is that going to bottleneck? Is it worth a gpu upgrade as well? Is 500w enough for the psu? Is it worth waiting a few more months on the cpu/sockets? As you might have guessed, I like to upgrade as infrequently as I can! Also happy to add/upgrade down the line if possible.
Pc is mostly used for music production, watching videos, surfing and gaming. I play Arma 3, Squad, Argo DCS world but would be nice to have something that can handle most games. I don't do any streaming or video processing.
I'm also considering the switch from 1080p to 1440p. Will this setup handle that or better to stick to 1080?
Loads of questions in there so just looking for some general opinions.
Thanks dudes!! ^_^
I'm currently running an i5 750 (yes, I know) on an Asus P7P55D board with 16GB of DDR3 and a radeon r9 380 4GB (full spec in my bio). It's done me proud for the last 7 years or so but is getting pretty long in the tooth now.
I'm currently looking at the i5 8400 which obviously needs a new board and ram so thinking I might as well make a new build from scratch.
I normally like to build everything myself but I saw that quiet pc do a nofan build which looks quite nice -
Jonsbo UMX4 Zone Black Compact Midi Tower Aluminium Case
ASUS PRIME Z370-A LGA1151 ATX Motherboard
Intel 8th Gen Core i5 8400 65W UHD 630 9MB 6 Cores 6 Threads CPU
Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) 2400MHz Memory Kit
Nofan CR-80EH IcePipe 80W Fanless CPU Cooler (not for K-suffix CPUs)
Nofan P-500A Silent 500W Fanless 80+ GOLD PSU
Samsung SM961 Polaris M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (3200/1700)
for about £1300/£1400 which is pretty much the upper limit of my budget.
So my questions are, would this system run games well and if I keep the r9 380, is that going to bottleneck? Is it worth a gpu upgrade as well? Is 500w enough for the psu? Is it worth waiting a few more months on the cpu/sockets? As you might have guessed, I like to upgrade as infrequently as I can! Also happy to add/upgrade down the line if possible.
Pc is mostly used for music production, watching videos, surfing and gaming. I play Arma 3, Squad, Argo DCS world but would be nice to have something that can handle most games. I don't do any streaming or video processing.
I'm also considering the switch from 1080p to 1440p. Will this setup handle that or better to stick to 1080?
Loads of questions in there so just looking for some general opinions.
Thanks dudes!! ^_^
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