Time to Upgrade my i2500k

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Hello all,

This system of mine, has held it's own in time, since 2013.
With a recent failure of one of my gpu's, my system now needs an upgrade.
I've looked through several of these threads to gain a good idea of my plans.

My use of the computer is gaming mostly.
So I'd like to future proof for 1444p 144hz from 1080p 120hz,
with a monitor upgrade later in the year.

£1k budget to replace;

gpu
cpu
cooler
board
ram
case

Currently running with;

GTX660Ti (one failed)
i2500k
Noctua NH D14
4*4 GB sammy green DDR3 1600 mhz
Z77x UD3H
Define R4 case

The silent case, is a good idea, as the computer is in my bedroom, but not needed.

My ideas of a basket.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £975.90 (includes shipping: £13.53)​


So, is my idea of this basket good?
With Ryzen 3000 on the horizon, I do think,
I should struggle along until the release of the new CPU's,
to see if it affects the prices before upgrading.

I'd like your guys opinions, thanks.
 
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I would wait for Zen2 Ryzens.

And Define R4 case would still be fully usable, unless you want to switch to smaller.

Also you could just get new AM4 mounting kit for that NH-D14.
Alternately Scythe Mugen 5 would be very near best current coolers for half the price of Noctua.
And would be likely have some further cooling performance available by using two pressure oriented fans like Arctic P12s in push-pull.
 
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Thanks for the response.

The latch holding up the tool less front cage has broken,
so I need to replace my R4, otherwise I would have kept it.
Yeah, I feel the need to switch to something smaller, with changing from two gpu's to one.

Nice ideas on the the other coolers.
I'm a little clueless with the current technology, but getting upto speed now.
Good thoughts to reduce my overall cost.

Yeah, the consensus seems, to wait until Ryzen 3000 is released.
I could trudge along on low settings for the time being.
 
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Aye, just over two more weeks on very low graphics , low fps settings.

If the Ryzen 3000 wasn't announced end of May,
I'd upgrade now, but I'm being patient to wait for it.

With my basket currently under 1k, I am thinking of upgrading my storage from 2.25TB to 4.5TB with 500gb ssd and 4tb hdd.
WD Blue SSD
WD Black HDD
Even though this takes me over £1100, it's acceptable to be.
 
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With my basket currently under 1k, I am thinking of upgrading my storage from 2.25TB to 4.5TB with 500gb ssd and 4tb hdd.
WD Blue SSD
WD Black HDD
Even though this takes me over £1100, it's acceptable to be.
Really not worth of it paying for some claimed performance in HDDs.
Compared to SSD they just all suck.

If you have some really big game library you can only afford to keep on HDD, then PrimoCache would be the best solution for improving overall situation.
https://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/
Once first reads getting data to cache have been done, next load is basically at SSD speed:
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/did-some-benchmarking-of-an-ssd-caching-solution.2533859/
 
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AMD chose IMO wrong one with StoreMi/Fuzedrive.
For corporate environment with proper backupping it avoids wasting storage space unlike caching.
But for home use it's hardly ideal with its major complications if having any problem:

Instead of caching it's tiered storage, which combines different medias to one volume and moves data between them depending on its use and inherits bad/weak points of RAID0.
If either of drives fails, that's likely to destroy lots of data.
Also you can't access data on either drives by using live-Linux or moving drive to other PC.
(in case OS fails to boot or you want to access content on other PC by moving drive)

Again with PrimoCache all data is always stored on HDD in completely normal form and you can access that from live-Linux or by attaching drive to other PC.
You don't even have to cache whole HDD, because PrimoCache operates based on partitions.
Meaning you could partition drive, with only partition used for games getting cached and leaving some media storage without caching.
That would help avoiding wasting cache space to data not benefiting from caching.

You could use also it for caching any RAID arrays, while StoreMi is incompatible with RAID.
 
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