Upgrade Advice

[CrixxzeH]

Hello.

Im looking to upgrade my PC and get a new monitor I have had since 2015/16.

my current specs are;
I7 6700K @ 4.5Ghz
Z170 Asus MAXIMUS VIII Hero
Kingston Hyperx DDR4 16GB @ 2666Mhz
Asus Strix GTX970
Samsung Evo 850 250GB SSD
Western Digital Blue - 1TB HDD
Corsair 850W Modular Gold AX850 — 80 PLUS® Gold Certified
NZXT 2015 Edition
AOC 2460PG

I was wandering if the below would be a good enough long term upgrade to play the newest titles smoothly or would I be better getting a processor like the 5900x? Also, will this all work together as I dont really have a clue. I have £2000 to spend.

Asus GeForce RTX 3070 ROG Strix OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive
Samsung 1TB 860 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 64 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-76E1T0B/EU)
BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 24.5 Inch 240 Hz e-Sports Gaming Monitor


Thankyou for reading.

 

[mickyflinn]

Hi.

Personally I would get a 3070 and a new m2, sdd and see how you system performs. If your not happy after that then move on to cpu , motherboard, etc upgrade.

The Samsung drives are way overpriced you can get a 1tb western digital sn550 m2 drive for £95.

 

[CrixxzeH]

Hi.

Personally I would get a 3070 and a new m2, sdd and see how you system performs. If your not happy after that then move on to cpu , motherboard, etc upgrade.

The Samsung drives are way overpriced you can get a 1tb western digital sn550 m2 drive for £95.

Thanks for that, cant go wrong with saving money.

 

[EsaT]

Quad core is struggling in newer heavier games with 6 cores/12 threads being to starting level nowadays.
And we don't yet have games made to utilize power of new consoles...

Xbox Scarlett (lot better name than horribly clunky Series X) even has more memory intended for GPU usage than that NVidia's exercise in memory skimping...
AMD's new cards are to be released in about week and those aren't skimping in memory with proper next-gen 16GB aboard.
Zero sense to buy new graphics card before that competition.

And on this kind budget that horribly tiny resolution small monitor should definitely be upgraded into something more modern.
2560x1440 is standard now.


Forget brand overpriced drives of Samsung who is cramming Big Ben into every orifice of consumers.
Proper price for 1TB full speed PCIe v3 drive is max £140
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seag...state-drive-rv.1-zp1000cm3a001-hd-3c0-se.html
And this is more proper price for SATA drive, though still expensive compared to budget NVMes.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0a-hd-54j-wd.html

Heck, you can get 2TB NVMe for less than brand overpriced Samsungs.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...-state-drive-cssd-f1920gbmp510-hd-066-cs.html
And 2TB Adata SX8200 Pro/Gammix S11 Pro could be found for nearly price of that 970 Evo.

 

[mickyflinn]

Thanks for that, cant go wrong with saving money.

With your healthy budget you could probably get a 3080 and would still a enough for a full system.

Are you trying to max out your monitors refresh rate for gaming ?

Noticed you got a duplicate thread .

 

[CrixxzeH]

With your healthy budget you could probably get a 3080 and would still a enough for a full system.

Are you trying to max out your monitors refresh rate for gaming ?

Noticed you got a duplicate thread .

I've always had a 24' and always prefered 24' but might look into 2560x1440 as EsaT said.

 

[mickyflinn]

I've always had a 24' and always prefered 24' but might look into 2560x1440 as EsaT said.

24 inch 1440p will make things quite small on screen so it mite be worth getting 27 inch but look into this before you buy.