New system or just upgrades?

Plasticsheet

Plasticsheet

Plasticsheet

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Hello!

In the next few months I am planning to get a new computer one way or another.

I bought my current computer about 12 years ago and since then have been adding and upgrading away happily so I am not averse to making changes or bothered/scared of it.

Now since I haven't made any upgrades in about 4 maybe 5 years I am not a point where I need to make a lot of changes. Essentially the only things I'm interested in keeping from my current PC are the hard drives.

So my question is do you think it would be a better idea to just buy a whole new system or to continue as I have always done and just buy the components and upgrade myself?

Budget will be between £1200-1700

Thanks in advance
 
Plasticsheet said:
Hello!

In the next few months I am planning to get a new computer one way or another.

I bought my current computer about 12 years ago and since then have been adding and upgrading away happily so I am not averse to making changes or bothered/scared of it.

Now since I haven't made any upgrades in about 4 maybe 5 years I am not a point where I need to make a lot of changes. Essentially the only things I'm interested in keeping from my current PC are the hard drives.

So my question is do you think it would be a better idea to just buy a whole new system or to continue as I have always done and just buy the components and upgrade myself?

Budget will be between £1200-1700

Thanks in advance
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new system !

and whats your usage and monitor resolution/hz ?

if your looking to buy right now, Intel - if you can hold on to July then Ryzen 3000 launch maybe a game changer !
 
Will be 90% gaming 10% work. Monitors will be getting replaced too though that might be closer to Christmas!

I think it is likely to be around July August by the time I have all the funds so I'm not really looking at what to get at the minute just trying to decide between upgrades or new system.

thanks
 
Welcome aboard.

It would be very good time to buy new computer later at summer.
Zen2 Ryzens to be released in Computex should bring one of the biggest performance per money jumps in very long time.
Maybe AMD also releases new graphics cards around Computex-E3 bringing more competition into them above bottom level.
Price development of so many PC parts have been horrible for so many years.
PC "Master Race" was basically turned into Cash Cow Race.


If you have data like images and videos for those HDDs are cost effective storage.
But for games SSD should be goal.
Anyway SATA-signaled SSDs are now quite affordable with 1TB available for £110 and likely to come further down in price.
More expensive NMVe SSDs have very little real world home usage speed advantage for their price.
Some second or two faster at best game loading time just isn't significant.

Can't see anything else being reusable besides HDDs, unless you've upgraded case since then.
There were barely any modern cases with PSU at bottom 12 years ago.
Though there were few ones and my case is approaching 11 year age.
 
The case is actually one of my least favourite parts of my current PC, wish id upgraded that long ago!

Currently I have 1 small SSD for windows, 1 larger for main games I play and then 1 HDD for music/videos/documents etc. I was thinking of perhaps ordering something with no storage and moving all three of my current ones over but I don't know how feasible that would actually be?
 
Plasticsheet said:
The case is actually one of my least favourite parts of my current PC, wish id upgraded that long ago!

Currently I have 1 small SSD for windows, 1 larger for main games I play and then 1 HDD for music/videos/documents etc. I was thinking of perhaps ordering something with no storage and moving all three of my current ones over but I don't know how feasible that would actually be?
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Versatility of case selection has actually been going downhill fast for couple years, because of marketroids copying all fashion garbages and work obstacles to every case.


If that OS SSD is some very old small model it's likely actually slower than current SSDs, making new OS/programs drive likely good.
Might have also some wear.
Anyway prices are now very good with half TB fair £50.

Game drive should be good if its reasonable size.
 
EsaT said:
Versatility of case selection has actually been going downhill fast for couple years, because of marketroids copying all fashion garbages and work obstacles to every case.


If that OS SSD is some very old small model it's likely actually slower than current SSDs, making new OS/programs drive likely good.
Might have also some wear.
Anyway prices are now very good with half TB fair £50.

Game drive should be good if its reasonable size.
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Yeah the OS drive is only 120gb and I'm constantly finding it on the verge of being full. The game drive is 1TB and was only bought 2 years ago I think, Samsung 870 or 970 or something along those lines, I am in work so cant actually check at present but there has never been any issues with it so that's why I'm happy to keep it and the other larger one for file storage.

Thanks for you replies, its helped me make up my mind!
 
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