It has been a wee while since I spashed out on an upgrade and I'm really tempted to order some new bits and pieces. I'm still running my trusty 2500K @4.6GHz. It has been sitting happily under a custom water loop since soon after release back in early 2011. I'm old now and haven't been much into gaming so hard to justify an upgrade for some office work and the odd bit of work on RAW images files.
My son has started to game now so I added an RX580 in place of the old 6970 and things seem fine at 1920x1080. Really that should be enough. Thing is I seem to have caught the overclocking bug again. I have some funds available and really fancy a new build followed by hours of tweaking and running prime95 to see how far I can push things. With that in mind I'm tempted by the following...
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Part of the reason for looking at Intel is the ease of just popping the new CPU under the existing waterblock. Having said that I do have a soft spot for AMD and look back fondly on my skt939 overclocking days. I have considered going down the 2700X route and I'm aware CES is only a week away so Ryzen 3000 might make me regret my decision but it's likely to be Q2 before the new chips land.
Just wonder what people think of the selection of parts. I appreciate it's probably a fairly unnecessary ugrade but sometimes it's nice to treat yourself and I'd really like to see if I can hit 5GHz.
My son has started to game now so I added an RX580 in place of the old 6970 and things seem fine at 1920x1080. Really that should be enough. Thing is I seem to have caught the overclocking bug again. I have some funds available and really fancy a new build followed by hours of tweaking and running prime95 to see how far I can push things. With that in mind I'm tempted by the following...
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Intel Core i7-9700K 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £379.99
- 1 x Team Group Dark Pro "8Pack Edition" 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C14 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/= £169.99
- 1 x Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £239.99
Total: £800.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
Part of the reason for looking at Intel is the ease of just popping the new CPU under the existing waterblock. Having said that I do have a soft spot for AMD and look back fondly on my skt939 overclocking days. I have considered going down the 2700X route and I'm aware CES is only a week away so Ryzen 3000 might make me regret my decision but it's likely to be Q2 before the new chips land.
Just wonder what people think of the selection of parts. I appreciate it's probably a fairly unnecessary ugrade but sometimes it's nice to treat yourself and I'd really like to see if I can hit 5GHz.
