Think it's time for an upgrade!

BillyBoy26

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Hi all,

Hope you are all safe and well in the unprecedented times!

I am considering to upgrade my setup finally - decided I want to play Cyberpunk 2077 in all it's glory when it (hopefully) releases later this year.

The setup I have is:

AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700X 3.80GHz (Shadow Rock TF2 135mm cooler)
Asus Prime X370-Pro AMD X370 (MB)
GTX 1060 GT OC Single Fan 6144MB GDDR5
Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit
650W PSU

I think the bottleneck is my GPU - was considering to upgrade to RTX 2070 Super. From doing some reading, I have understood that the Ryzen 7 seems to shine with 3200 MHz RAM - so figured, seeing as I'll be beefing up the GPU, may as well get 32 GB 3200 MHz RAM there too.

What'd you all reckon? I was probably going to get these late this year so hopefully the price on the GPU drops as NVIDIA plans to drop their next series? Budget isn't necessarily an issue but I don't want to spend an extraordinary amount when the price will drop eventually.

Thanks!
 
Now is historically bad time to get more expensive graphics card.
For example GPU of next Xbox will beat most available cards with slightly higher raw power than in reference 2080 Super.
And when you're telling them "Please rape&rob me more Nvidia" you can't expect any better pricing from Nvidia's next-gen cards.
Only way for that is proper competition and there's no reason to assume AMD won't be giving better performance per price in next-gen cards.
Which should come out late summer/fall likely with new CPUs.

That Zen(1) Ryzen with its very mediocre memory controller isn't easy for higher memory clock speeds.
16GB DIMMs are dual rank DIMMs with higher load on memory controller.
Memory controller of Zen2/Ryzen3000 is entirely different beast.
 
Thanks for the reply esat - that's an interesting insight and one I didn't consider.

Hmm, maybe waiting it out for a year and updating the CPU too, will match the RAM upgrade also.

Now I'm wondering if my PSU is going to be adequate!
 
The PSU I have is:

OCZ ZS Series Power supply - 650 Watt

Having looked at the Ryzen 3700X, RTX 2070S and DDR4 3600/3200 16GB RAM, I think I'll wait until quarter 4 this year to see how the prices change.
 
Hi dandy,

I honestly don't know! I'm quite the newbie and have never done an OC before.

2400 MHz was indeed the advertised speed of that RAM if my memory serves me correctly.
 
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