Upgrade my sons pc ?

brandy12345 · 30 Sep 2023 at 21:38

I recently required my sons gaming rig and basically setting it up next to my lg c2 48inch oled tv for couch gaming,
More than happy on sticking to 1440p gaming but what would I need upgrading to remain at 1440p for many of years:

Asus prime z390-p mobo
Phanteks enthoo evolv atx mid tower
i7 9700k 3.6 ghz 8 - core cpu
Be quite cpu cooler
Team group 16gb ram
Palit 2080ti 11gb gpu
Samsung 970 evo plus 1tb m.2 ssd
Be quite pure power 700w psu

Tetras · 30 Sep 2023 at 22:18

It should do you fine for awhile yet (another 2-3 years or so), the 2080 Ti is similar/faster than a 6700 XT and people are still buying those for 1440p.

throwaway4372 · 30 Sep 2023 at 22:25

I wouldn't upgrade any parts of that. It's fine for now, keep using it. Eventually you'll want a whole new pc rather than upgrading parts, but that could be years away.

China Man · 30 Sep 2023 at 22:27

If you don't need ultra details or frame rate that just work as it is

Quartz · 30 Sep 2023 at 22:29

The only thing I might upgrade would be the RAM to 32 GB as modern games seem to exceed 16 GB these days.

brandy12345 · 30 Sep 2023 at 22:53

Thanks guys for all the useful information, I had a feeling that the one I was worried about would be the ram, I assume I would need to go into the motherboard settings to find out the ram sticks installed and buy another pair.

tamzzy · 1 Oct 2023 at 12:56

brandy12345 said:
I assume I would need to go into the motherboard settings to find out the ram sticks installed

don't even have to open the case up. just download cpu-z and head to the memory and spd tabs and will tell you all you need to know

brandy12345 said:
buy another pair.

ddr4 ram is pretty forgiving, so just need to buy ram with the same speeds as your current
the intel memory controller is also reasonably forgiving so you should be able to run 4 sticks at the xmp speeds (most of the time)

brandy12345 · 5 Oct 2023 at 18:52

Is their a major difference between DDR4-3200 and DDR4-3600 ?

tamzzy · 5 Oct 2023 at 18:53

not really

brandy12345 · 5 Oct 2023 at 19:09

So rather buying 32gb DDR4-3600 I should just buy another set of DDR4-3200 that I already have a pair installed.

tamzzy · 5 Oct 2023 at 19:23

brandy12345 said:
So rather buying 32gb DDR4-3600 I should just buy another set of DDR4-3200 that I already have a pair installed.

tamzzy said:
ddr4 ram is pretty forgiving, so just need to buy ram with the same speeds as your current
the intel memory controller is also reasonably forgiving so you should be able to run 4 sticks at the xmp speeds (most of the time)

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