Upgrade assistance please

[RobCee]

I believe it is time for me to blow the dust off my wallet and upgrade my system again.

My current setup is as follows:

i7-5820K @ 3.3GHz​

Gigabyte X99-SLI-CF motherboard​

32 GB RAM​

GTX 980 Ti​

Running 2x 2560x1440 monitors​

Problems with this setup:

Intermittent crashing of the graphics, could be age/heat/driver issues with th ecard​

Processor and motherboard are not supported for Win11​

System speeds aren't what they once were​

I thought a 500GB SSD would be sufficient for the OS...​

Usage is gaming, 3d modelling, coding and general office stuff.

Budget is around £3k max

I am thinking decent, but not ridiculous graphics, >64GB RAM and a robust processor, but have no particular thoughts on any of them.
I have no particular desire to mess about with overclocking or pushing things to the bleeding edges.

Please help steer me towards something suitable.

Cheers,
Rob

 

[Tetras]

Usage is gaming, 3d modelling, coding and general office stuff.

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I am thinking decent, but not ridiculous graphics, >64GB RAM and a robust processor, but have no particular thoughts on any of them.

Could you mention the software that you use? AMD cards tend to be rather weak with Blender, for example, though I'm sure a 9070 XT would still be an upgrade on the 980 Ti and get you much more VRAM.

Intel option:
- There's hardly anything in stock to add to cart, but if you can check if a 9070 XT is suitable for your other usage then that is an attractive price for 1440p gaming.
- Note that modern motherboards only have 4, or even 2 SATA ports, if you have a lot of drives to transfer.
- PCI-E lanes are also rather limited, do you have any PCI-E cards? Sound, LAN, etc?

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core Ultra 7 265K (Arrow Lake) Socket LGA 1851 Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-INT-03111) = £380.00
• 1 x Intel Core Ultra Bundle - Assassin's Creed Shadows and Civilization VII (SKU: DIG-INT-04525) = £0.00
• 1 x Asrock Z890 LiveMixer WIFI (LGA 1851) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-03361) = £232.99
• 1 x Intel Motherboard Master Key - Star Wars Outlaws (SKU: DIG-INT-04686) = £0.00
• 1 x Crucial Pro 96GB (2x48GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C46 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-CRU-01084) = £214.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Solid OC 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04470) = £854.98
• 1 x Crucial T700 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen5 M.2 Solid State Drive (CT2000T700SSD3) (SKU: HD-07D-CR) = £160.99
• 1 x Crucial T500 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01090) = £99.95
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool 216 Mid-tower PC case - Black (SKU: CA-7BG-LL) = £86.00
• 1 x Antec HCG 1000 Pro Platinum 1000W ATX3.1 Full modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-ATC-02746) = £189.95

• 1 x Corsair NAUTILUS 360 RS All In One CPU Cooler - 360mm (SKU: COO-CRS-03514) = £109.99

Total: £2,341.82 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

 

[RobCee]

Thanks @Tetras, that is very helpful.
I am mainly using Fusion360 for the 3D stuff
Don't have many drives as I offload most data to a NAS.
Again, nothing unusual on the PCI-E side either.

Stock levels do all seem to be a bit low at the moment for some reason...