Thoughts and Comments Would Be Appreciated...

LOAM · 10 Oct 2021 at 12:15

Right, long story short.

I've been trying to upgrade this decade old Sandy bridge 2700K rig for what seems like an eternity now but am getting nowhere fast. I have a new case sat here waiting to be populated and the intention is to build a custom hard line WC loop but I need to get this thing moving ASAP.

I've given up even trying on the GPU front as my work patterns simply mean I cant respond fast enough to telegram/discord warnings for stock drops so lets park the GPU stuff for now.

I was ready to buy the following;

X570 AORUS Master MB
Ryzen 9 5900X CPU
Ballistix RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Crucial P2 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 NVMe Solid State Drive
RMx850 PSU

When I then read that 3D Vcache is coming just after Christmas. I don't really want to spend £500+ on a CPU that will be refreshed in a couple of months...BUT I need to get this thing moving, so what to do (this is where you come in).

My current thought is to perhaps drop a R5-3600 into it for around £200 or a R5-5600G for around £220 (probably better value?) and the above, whack it on an air cooler whilst I plan the WC loop properly rather than trying to guess what's going on without seeing everything.

Is this viable or am I being an idiot and should I just wait? I figured I could probably sell the 5600G at the point of purchasing the refresh 5900X in the new year.

Thoughts?

LOAM · 10 Oct 2021 at 13:32

mickyflinn said:
Intel Alderlake cpu to be released in approx 4 weeks it would make sense to wait but can you ?

Is this a gaming build any video editing, etc ?

Its a bit of a mixed bag to be honest. Gaming I think will be its main and 12 months ago I would have said I needed it for Revit / Vray etc but I have a good work laptop for that now that is here full time so theres less requirement for that sort of thing these days. I would say its nice to have but mainly gaming

LOAM · 10 Oct 2021 at 14:50

mickyflinn said:
What about waiting for Alderlake ?

I'm not dead against it although I don't know a great deal about it. I suspect it might be incredibly expensive though, especially with DDR5

LOAM · 15 Oct 2021 at 18:15

Ok all taken on board. I'll certainly look at options on the SSD, it was recommended in the SSD forum but I'll look around a bit.

LOAM · 15 Oct 2021 at 20:49

EsaT said:
Even before "upgrade" to QLC garbage, P2 was entry level drive fit on budget PC, not for high end PC.

Dropping excess from board would be more than enough to give high end drive and another £100 to use for something else.
Or alternatively 2TB WD Blue SN550.

I'm not tied to a budget limit per se, I'd be happy to upspec the SSD without compromise on the MB. I've had this current rig for a decade it's ridiculous really that I've only had to upgrade the GPU since 2011. That said Im not going to pay scalpers figures out of principle.

LOAM · 16 Oct 2021 at 10:57

The tomahawk was the original choice but again was steered away following comments in the MB section saying the GB way way better and people had, had issues with the MSI board.