Upgrade advice from my Neolithic age kit :)

wsurfa

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After eeking out a year or so extra by sticking in a used x99 bundle from here, it's finally time to upgrade CPU/Motherboard/Ram to current gen. I think my last new purchase was probably about 15 years ago.....

Gaming is pretty minimal, so I can probably hold off hosing £500 into a GPU for a bit. I'll prob add a something like a Samsung 1TB 990 Pro shortly as boot drive.

Main use beyond basic work/browsing is photo editing (Lightroom & PS) & video editing (Davinci) and the long process of ripping & shrinking(handbrake) an ever growing list of UHDs.

My current spec is

CPU: i7 6850k
MB: EVGA x99 Classified
Ram: 16GB DDR4 3000

GPU: Zotac 1070Ti
SSD: 970 Evo Plus 1TB, WD SN570 1TB
HDD: c25TB of random internal & external - planning to move this to a DIY server or NAS with 2.5/10GB ethernet
Case: BeQuiet Dark Pro 900
PSU: Fractal ION+ 860
Cooler: Corsair H115i Extreme (from 2017/18) hoping that there is an adapter for AM5 and/or LGA1700

Budget £800-1000 roughly for the CPU/MB/RAM.

I'd want decent I/O on the MB as most modern MB seem to down to 2 or 3 PCIe slots. 2.5 and/or 10GB ethernet, thunderbolt ideally (but I think this cuts down on AMD MB options?) but at least options to allow decent storage solutions that aren't ethernet, don't care about wifi as it's 1m from my router.

I'd assume DDR5 and PCIe gen 5 as I'd expect to keep the MB for 5+years so useful to not be at the end of one gen of standards.

Thanks for any advice
 
If you go intel the platform will have no future CPU upgrades AM5 should provide future CPU support but that doesn't mean that intel option is a good choice.

The 13700k performance is simmlar to the 7900x in davinci resolve , so along with 32gb or 64gb of ddr5 and a suitable motherboard is what I would suggest

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Do you have a preference ?
 
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mickyflinn said:
If you go intel the platform will have no future CPU upgrades AM5 should provide future CPU support but that doesn't mean that intel option is a good choice.

The 13700k performance is simmlar to the 7900x in davinci resolve , so along with 32gb or 64gb of ddr5 and a suitable motherboard is what I would suggest

www.pugetsystems.com

Hardware Recommendations

Our workstations for DaVinci Resolve are tested and optimized to give you the best performance and reliability. View our hardware recommendations.
www.pugetsystems.com www.pugetsystems.com

Do you have a preference ?
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Thanks

No real preference as it's so long since I bought a new CPU, just want decent performance, longevity with some upgrade path and not having to worry about it overheating (2 recent intel work laptops overheated regularly with little real workload)
 
Check out the asrock livemixer motherboards they have lots of I/o on supposedly designed for creators, . An AMD CPU for upgrade path,

Know you not really fussed about GPU just yet, but maybe the arc 770 now it's matured a bit might be worth a ponder if doing lots of video work.
 
PS/LR is heavily single thread CPU limited hence why intel 13th gen has the advantage over ryzen 7000 chips.
Davinci is heavily GPU dependent.

Looks like you'll be wanting both the CPU and GPU upgrading :p
 
tamzzy said:
PS/LR is heavily single thread CPU limited hence why intel 13th gen has the advantage over ryzen 7000 chips.
Davinci is heavily GPU dependent.

Looks like you'll be wanting both the CPU and GPU upgrading :p
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Stop making me spend money... ;)
 
wsurfa said:
Thanks

No real preference as it's so long since I bought a new CPU, just want decent performance, longevity with some upgrade path and not having to worry about it overheating (2 recent intel work laptops overheated regularly with little real workload)
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So it looks like your leaning towards AMD as intel are power hungry and the ability to upgrade although 12 cores should be enough . Check the motherboard meets your requirements.

You can get 64gb of ddr5 for £200


My basket at OcUK:

Total: £877.96 (includes delivery: £8.00)​

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mickyflinn said:
So it looks like your leaning towards AMD as intel are power hungry and the ability to upgrade although 12 cores should be enough . Check the motherboard meets your requirements.

You can get 64gb of ddr5 for £200


My basket at OcUK:

Total: £877.96 (includes delivery: £8.00)​

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Thanks, will check out the MB in detail. Just another £120 for 7950x......;)
 
wsurfa said:
Of course I do, that's the problem!
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if you're okay with going preowned/used (and especially as you have MM access)

5700x/5800x + b550 + 32GB DDR4 3200/3600
RTX 3080

The whole combination above should be doable with £800 or thereabouts...
(personally this would be what I would spend my money on if I were in your situation)
 
tamzzy said:
if you're okay with going preowned/used (and especially as you have MM access)

5700x/5800x + b550 + 32GB DDR4 3200/3600
RTX 3080

The whole combination above should be doable with £800 or thereabouts...
(personally this would be what I would spend my money on if I were in your situation)
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Thanks, makes sense and is great value.

Just have to deal with my 'must have shiny new thing' desire :)
 
mickyflinn said:
Used is great value but new comes with 3 years warranty and is untouched, less hassle if problems arise.

Way it up before you decide.
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Good point, been so long since buying parts new I'd forgotten that. My experience returning an overheating HP laptop with a swelling battery was less than stellar though...:)
 
wsurfa said:
Thanks, makes sense and is great value.

Just have to deal with my 'must have shiny new thing' desire :)
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mickyflinn said:
Used is great value but new comes with 3 years warranty and is untouched, less hassle if problems arise.

Way it up before you decide.
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Correct. Though if you buy from MM, the seller is usually happy to help with warranty claims for the remainder of the warranty period.
 
Thanks for the ideas, I think AMD 7000 will be the route.

Motherboard looks to be the big choice, I'd not thought about ASRock, they seem a decent mix of cost/performance. I was fairly surprised at the cost of most MBs.

I'll try without a new GPU for a while.
 
wsurfa said:
Motherboard looks to be the big choice, I'd not thought about ASRock, they seem a decent mix of cost/performance. I was fairly surprised at the cost of most MBs.
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unless there's something specific you need i'd probably stick to the cheaper end of the b650 range
 
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