Have been toying with the idea of buying an upgrade bundle from OC to the new Overclocked i9 9900k and new 390 Motherboard platform with a new case etc. When I bought my current PC it was the end of generation on the Z270 platform which puts me in a place I can't really upgrade the CPU from there. I'm assuming if I bought a new 2080 for example my CPU might hold it back in newer games? Also if I went with the Z390 platform I don't really want to be in the same position with upgrading as I am now but I suppose that's always a losing battle thinking like that when it comes to new technology. I also fancy upgrading my case as I'm not a fan of my current one. Fancy hopping on the RGB train. My current PC spec:
EVGA SuperNova P2 850W '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply
Kolink Vault Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black/Red LED
Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor
OcUK GeForce GTX 1080 "Founders Edition" 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card
Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD 2.5 SATA 6GBPS 64 LAYER 3D V-NAND SOLID STATE DRIVE
Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD
Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Gigabyte Aorus GA-Z270X-Gaming K5 Intel Z270 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel
I don't know if it is worth the money to upgrade to say a 2080 and an i9 9900k over this right now or should I wait out a bit longer for a larger upgrade, or possibly be looking at something else entirely? I'm just running my games on 1080p for the moment but am looking at upgrading my monitor also to run 1440p. PC is just used for games. Ultimately I'm itching to buy a new machine after 3 years and it is maybe just this lockdown getting to me after looking at all these different builds haha...
EVGA SuperNova P2 850W '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply
Kolink Vault Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black/Red LED
Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor
OcUK GeForce GTX 1080 "Founders Edition" 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card
Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD 2.5 SATA 6GBPS 64 LAYER 3D V-NAND SOLID STATE DRIVE
Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD
Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Gigabyte Aorus GA-Z270X-Gaming K5 Intel Z270 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel
I don't know if it is worth the money to upgrade to say a 2080 and an i9 9900k over this right now or should I wait out a bit longer for a larger upgrade, or possibly be looking at something else entirely? I'm just running my games on 1080p for the moment but am looking at upgrading my monitor also to run 1440p. PC is just used for games. Ultimately I'm itching to buy a new machine after 3 years and it is maybe just this lockdown getting to me after looking at all these different builds haha...
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