Upgrade CPU - AMD, Wait or not?

Emjay86

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Hey all,

I desperately need to upgrade my mobo, cpu and RAM and have been convinced to go AMD as Intel are apparently not that great anymore.

On this, I have looked at the bundles on offer from OCUK and what is there looks like it could be good to go for, although I'm not 100% (I would assume anything on the store is good value).

I have around £800 for now but can wait another month or two to get up to around £1100 or £1400 for the upgrade, although the sooner the better as my rig is really struggling (freezing up in high end games often).

I am a corsair fanboy and would like to make use of the vengeance ram in addition to using a corsair water block (my current cpu is on a watercooling loop).

Additionally the iCUE software is apparently working with aorus now which would make the aorus motherboards something I'd like to go for (so long as it does indeed work with the icue).

I'm housing it all in a corsair 680x case which is why the want for flashy lights.

Ideally I want something that will last me a good few years or at least allows me to upgrade at some point if need be.

I have SSD drives and am running a Geforce 2079 super at the moment on a 1920×1080 resolution (although I'm planning on getting a curved widescreen at some stage, depending on what I can get).

I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!
 
Intel has nothing but brand priced yester-yesteryear's stuff with same core count what next-gen consoles will bring as base level.
While AMD has also improved architecture coming for current socket and already upgrade path to twice the core count.

That £800 would easily get some very high end stuff as base of system.
And even less would get good motherboard, future proof for long time amount of memory and CPU to last good for couple years for upgrade to improved archtiecture and higher core count.
Unlike Intel AMD actually lowers price of older model CPUs and 12 cores could go into nice price after release of successor.
Though compared to Intel's brand overpricing current 12 core is really affordable.


"Functioning" of those RGB bloatwares means bogging PC down:
Might want to have extra core or two to run just that crap...
 
What PSU are you using and how old is it?

I'm assuming you intend to reuse your current case, gpu, and ssd/hdd's so far?

So you need the following:

CPU
RAM
Mobo
CPU Waterblock
X amount of RGB fans? (If so how many)?
 
Gray2233 said:
What PSU are you using and how old is it?

I'm assuming you intend to reuse your current case, gpu, and ssd/hdd's so far?

So you need the following:

CPU
RAM
Mobo
CPU Waterblock
X amount of RGB fans? (If so how many)?
Click to expand...

My PSU is a superflower 750mw and is about 3 years old, maybe less.

I've got plenty of SSD and HDD for what I want, for now and my gpu is a 2070 super so I'm happy with that (I just get bottlenecked by my other components!).

My case is an old corsair 900D and I want to scale it down somewhat, it's too much of a beast and is difficult to muck about with when I need to, so I'm going for the corsair 680x with the plan of having it on my desk.

Inside my current case my cpu is linked up to a 360 and 120 radiator with 8 fans working on those alone. The loop is overkill as it used to have 2 old geforce 580s on it as well.

For the fans... I'll be looking at 4 stock fans that come with the case and an additional 3 or 4 I guess in order to get my cpu watercolooled. I could go for an all in one but frankly once you've gone custom loop you don't really go back...
 
Hi Charlatan,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll switch out the RAM for 32GB Corsair Vengeance as I'm after the shinies.

With the CPU water block added I can probably get this with the case I want next payday, possibly the one after which is fine as the mobo isn't in stock anyway atm.

Thanks for the advise, really appreciated.
 
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