Upgrade of wait?

S33A · 21 Jul 2021 at 10:40

Hi,

So, I'm currently running the following:

Asus ROG Maximus X Hero Z370
Intel i7-8700k
16gb 3600 memory (currently under RMA)
Asus 1080ti
Samsung 960 Evo Polaris SSD 3.0

Being honest, it plays games absolutely fine at the moment. I have a little fear of "its old, it needs replacing" and an element of boredom in wanting a new PC build.

But the question is (irrespective of GPU prices), is now a good time to upgrade, or would you wait? If so, would that wait be purely for DDR5 or for next gen CPU (Alderlake with/without DDR4) or would you completely switch to AMD for the CPU.

Games wise, I play a lot of warzone, DCS, PUBG etc but also use the same PC for work ever day (Photoshop, Illustrator, PremierPro).

I'd like more RAM for DCS (it sucks it up) but considering should I bother buying 64gb or 32gb for current system (remembering Z370 is maxed at 64gb) or just go all in and build again from scratch.

mickyflinn · 21 Jul 2021 at 10:47

Apart from ram your system does everything you need and upgrading the ram isnt that expensive.

You would recoup some money by selling when you upgrade ypur whole pc.

Dddr5 for gaming isnt going to be massive but mite be better in productivity .

KeanuIsLife · 21 Jul 2021 at 18:31

What resolution do you game at? Otherwise your system is still very competent and you said it yourself, it does everything you need from it (except the RAM which is cheap enough to upgrade). So if I were you I'd be very happy to wait the current mess out and only look at upgrading when you need to and hopefully things will have calmed down! The next gen gpu rumours are looking juicy so you might be able to snag a massive upgrade waiting until next year.

Tetras · 21 Jul 2021 at 18:36

For gaming I don't think it's worth upgrading CPU or motherboard. GPU it would depend on the resolution and refresh, but prices aren't great right now.

For Adobe stuff, I'm not sure how much difference more cores or RAM will make, it's probably workload dependent. Do you know where the bottleneck is right now with your work?

S33A · 21 Jul 2021 at 23:44

I game at 3440 x 1440 and no real interest to go up to 4k.

In all honesty, I wouldn't say I'm bottlenecked in work, but more RAM would help.

It sounds like everyone is on the same page of, just keep what I've got and throw some more RAM in it.

Cheers for the answers guys.