Next upgrade - or save for a new build?

Pickers · 24 Jul 2025 at 22:13

So I have the upgrade itch. But it might well pass so not massively rushed to do much but I do wonder about if I could improve my current offering. I did have random power problems (posted on here about this - basically system would shutdown and not be able to be powered on until it was unplugged for 20 mins) but since removing an MSI afterburner small gfx overclock, and a reinstall of Windows, the only issue I've had are two sudden reboot (but system powered itself back on immediately) when running MS flight simulator - touch wood nothing else has made this happen.

So yeah, there's an element of faith loss in the system as well so I'm wondering if an upgrade or rebuild may do me better.

Current system:
i5 11400 cooled with Corsair AIO
Msi mag B560m mortar wifi
32gb Corsair ddr4 3200
3060ti FE
1tb sn850x ssd

Kolink citadel case (micro atx)
Dell Gaming Monitor 1440p
Corsair platinum 1000HX power supply (8 years old)

Use:
Office pc
Dip into Microsoft flight sim / Minecraft / fallout 4 / VR gaming from time to time.

Special requests:
I would like it to have a small desk footprint as possible really.
Low power on office tasks (currently, the system seems to draw ~100W on idle but can't work out why.)
I don't think the 3060ti is up to 440p gaming and VR really.. but I might be wrong.

Would upgrading the gfx to say 4070ti be reasonable, or would.the CPU bottleneck too much? I would appreciate thoughts if anyone has any advice on what might be a good avenue to go down?

Pickers · 24 Jul 2025 at 22:36

Oh budget is a bit airy... It's more a case of if it seems a good deal is try and stretch

I know the price of a new 4070ti. But looking at some recent threads here, £1000-£1500 seems to go a longer way with AMD (but that scares me)

Pickers · 25 Jul 2025 at 13:00

Thanks Freddie! So you think 5060ti is a better move than 4070ti? I guess it's cheaper and has more memory, but it's a less capable card on paper (though significance on VR and 1440p gaming I guess may be minimal?)

Id love an m-itx build but I worry I'd run into space and overheating issues.

Pickers · 25 Jul 2025 at 14:22

So just playing around a little with intel...
This is keeping existing PSU, case and NVME SSD.

My basket at OcUK:

1 x MSI B860M Gaming Plus WIFI (LGA 1851) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-04084) = £179.99
1 x Intel Core Ultra 7 265K (Arrow Lake) Socket LGA 1851 Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-INT-03111) = £289.99
1 x Corsair NAUTILUS 240 RS ARGB All In One CPU Cooler - 240mm (SKU: COO-CRS-03509) = £79.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance EXPO/XMP 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-CRS-00996) = £99.95
1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge OC 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04915) = £419.99

Total: £1,069.91 (includes delivery: £0.00)

Pickers · 25 Jul 2025 at 17:59

Gray2233 said:
For primarily gaming and light office tasks, you're better off going with AMD.

The 265K is a fantastic chip, but only if you need a lot of CPU grunt for workstation/media creation related tasks, it falls behind in gaming.

That's interesting. Even flight simulator as I thought that's quite CPU heavy isn't it? Cost doesn't seem to have much in it so I guess it is down to ideal use case.

I'm looking for a low power solution where possible

Pickers · 25 Jul 2025 at 19:51

I have a spare arctic freezer 34 eSports air cooler now I think of it. Would that be ok for the 7600x3d?

Pickers · Saturday at 07:08

See I was thinking either upgrade everything but the gfx, or the complete opposite .

Is it worth waiting to see what happens to 5070ti prices? 5060ti 12gb version was going to be my affordable route...