Upgrade advice (CPU, MB, Case)

[Jb6534]

I have been considering upgrading a part of my PC (Mainly the motherboard, CPU or case).
I have a budget of £400 max to spend on any assortment of the 3, It doesn't have to be all of them either.
I'm not too bothered about the looks of the case as it spends it's days under my desk but it's a little tired.
Current parts:
- CPU: Ryzen 7 1700X
- Case: some generic £30 case, everything fits fine
- Motherboard: Aorus B450 Elite
--------- Other system specs ----------
- GPU: RTX 3070 (when it arrives)
- Boot drive: Samsung 960 Evo 250GB
- storage drive: Seagate barracuda 2TB
- PSU: EVGA 850W BQ (I know it's overkill but I wanted it to be able to last and have upgrade and OC headroom)
- Cooler: Noctua NH D-15

Any suggestions are welcome.

 

[Jb6534]

SSD is horribly small for modern games.

Basic 5 year warranty cheap PSU isn't future proofing.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/evga-bq-series-850w-psu,4842.html

And that cheap garbage VRM motherboard can't even properly support top CPU models and is good only for 65W TDP CPUs.
So forget any overclocking.
MSI was only good brand in B450 boards.

Right, This is a thread for upgrade advice, not for ripping on my PC. Now that thats out of the way,
The power delivery on this board has been spectacular for my CPU getting it as high as 4GHz requiring around 160W with no voltage instability reported in software or crashes up to that point so stuff your "forget overclocking" bs.

The PSU is a damn sight better than my old PSU for the same wattage (with a low budget) and since I'm not pushing the supply to it's limit's it: Doesn't get hot, nearly at the peak on it's efficiency curve, has enough headroom for me to upgrade my GPU and overclock it without it costing any more than I can afford to spend on it.

Finally the SSD, I quite prominently labelled it my BOOT DRIVE so why in gods name would I put games on it? I have the 2TB storage drive for that which is more than enough.

 

[Jb6534]

Bet you haven't checked VRM temps.
Those weak four phases are maxed out running very hot and definitely eating on lifetime.

This is actually too forgiving:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...MvYeCLI5ZbIpnq5fyiWD4NCkkU/edit#gid=229691480
In B450 board testing done by The Stilt x264 encoding made Strix B450-F completely overheat in 12 minutes with stock 2700X.
And Aorus Pro was only little better.


Old spinning rust is sluggish for loading big games and any during gameplay loads cause fast lots of hiccups.
If you can afford high end GPU price, you should also afford decent capacity SSD.

I have, they run 65-70 max under full AIDA 64 benchmark conditions which is WELL within spec for the VRM. The hard drive for games doesn't make enough of a difference for load time for me to consider buying an SSD storage solution for my games. (all of the games I play are cinematic bar CoD MW). I only saved the budget for the GPU over time and the upgrade budget I listed initially is ONLY for the CPU, MB or Case as I have had no reason to upgrade anything else for any other reason than to modernize my system. I reiterate that the MB is fine for the CPU im running rn and the storage solution I'm using is totally fine.
I posted this thread so that I could get some decent upgrade recommendations for the parts I want to uprade within my budget, not why the parts im using right now might be flawed in some way.

Also I'd love to know how the hell that guy managed to overdo his VRM with a 2700X at stock with this board, HWInfo64 has never reported temps over 75 on any part of the VRM and that was with the case fans set to silent.