I have recently, with thanks to some advice in this forum, built my 2nd PC in two years.
The reason being that I wanted to get a new PC for my partner but instead of building her a new one, I decided to give her my one which I built this time last year and build a new one for myself now.
My previous build was an AMD Vega 64 Red Dragon with Ryzen 7 2700
My new build is an AMD 5700 XT regular with Ryzen 7 3700x
The 5700 XT cost me £350
The Ryzen 7 3700X cost me £330
Other component costs £320~
(Around £1000)
The Vega 64 cost me £300
The Ryzen 7 2700 cost me £260
Other component costs £380~
(Around £940)
So overall, I have spent £1,940 in the past two years on PCs.
My question is... what if I didn't build two PCs but just put all of that money into a single build back in October 2018?
I don't know how best to answer that as I don't have old prices of parts from October 2018 and wouldn't know where to look, so I am wondering if anyone here might know?
If we take the extra that I spent £940, and pool that with the money I spent on CPU/GPU originally, that makes £1,620. Split equally across both GPU/CPU would have been about £810 each (let's call it £800 for simplicity sake).
The reason I want to know this isn't so much to poke myself for upgrading a year after I spent a good amount of money on a build. I know that I am taking a hit on my wallet for doing that to help my partner upgrade her rig, and I accept that.
I am generally curious how a more enthusiast build would have fared, on a diminishing return basis against a year's worth of performance upgrades and AMD's latest surge on their new chipset/pricing.
The benchmarking I could probably figure out using online tools, but does anyone know how to figure out what CPU/GPUs would have been available at those prices a year ago, please?
EDIT : Just changed one of my conclusions regarding the extra to spend, it didn't change the sum but made it make it read back better
The reason being that I wanted to get a new PC for my partner but instead of building her a new one, I decided to give her my one which I built this time last year and build a new one for myself now.
My previous build was an AMD Vega 64 Red Dragon with Ryzen 7 2700
My new build is an AMD 5700 XT regular with Ryzen 7 3700x
The 5700 XT cost me £350
The Ryzen 7 3700X cost me £330
Other component costs £320~
(Around £1000)
The Vega 64 cost me £300
The Ryzen 7 2700 cost me £260
Other component costs £380~
(Around £940)
So overall, I have spent £1,940 in the past two years on PCs.
My question is... what if I didn't build two PCs but just put all of that money into a single build back in October 2018?
- What would that have looked like?
- What performance would it get over my current new build, today?
I don't know how best to answer that as I don't have old prices of parts from October 2018 and wouldn't know where to look, so I am wondering if anyone here might know?
If we take the extra that I spent £940, and pool that with the money I spent on CPU/GPU originally, that makes £1,620. Split equally across both GPU/CPU would have been about £810 each (let's call it £800 for simplicity sake).
- What CPU could I have bought with £800?
- What GPU could I have bought with £800?
- If I bench them against my current build, how would they perform today?
The reason I want to know this isn't so much to poke myself for upgrading a year after I spent a good amount of money on a build. I know that I am taking a hit on my wallet for doing that to help my partner upgrade her rig, and I accept that.
I am generally curious how a more enthusiast build would have fared, on a diminishing return basis against a year's worth of performance upgrades and AMD's latest surge on their new chipset/pricing.
The benchmarking I could probably figure out using online tools, but does anyone know how to figure out what CPU/GPUs would have been available at those prices a year ago, please?
EDIT : Just changed one of my conclusions regarding the extra to spend, it didn't change the sum but made it make it read back better
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