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mellow yellow said:
Thanks both! your advice is much appreciated.

procrastinator sums me up perfectly lol. and its has cost me now with these silly prices :D

i know prices have risen but when you see it typed out like that it does make me feel a bit ill

and with my luck i would pull the trigger now and everything will then drop and i could have built a much better rig for the £'s
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Does your board have 4 RAM slots?

The graphics card price is pretty much the same, so you could do what tamzzy suggested and keep what you have (with the new card), then try and pick up a used 2x8 kit or 1x16 of the same sticks (or very similar) to run alongside rather than replace and then wait for the CPU prices to drop. Right now, AM4 CPU prices are elevated because the RAM prices have caused desperate upgraders to hang onto their systems, but CPU prices will always fall over time as demand drops off.
 
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Tetras said:
The graphics card price is pretty much the same, so you could do what tamzzy suggested and keep what you have (with the new card)
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this

@mellow yellow just get the damn 9070 (non-xt) already lol
gpu prices are only going to increase in the new year

Tetras said:
then try and pick up a used 2x8 kit or 1x16 of the same sticks (or very similar) to run alongside rather than replace and then wait for the CPU prices to drop. Right now, AM4 CPU prices are elevated because the RAM prices have caused desperate upgraders to hang onto their systems, but CPU prices will always fall over time as demand drops off.
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this too
the rest can be upgraded later down the line if/when prices drop.
 
Yeah I have 4 slots but always thought that was a bad idea? I could see if I can match up another 2x8..

I could go for the 5070 or 9070 regardless. I do t really mind picking up a 5800x as they are not super expensive but do also need to factor in extra cooling. Or I would go 5700x but they are also hard to get hold of. Unless of course I find a legit x3d, yeah right lol.

But the closer I get to £1k in upgrades I think what's the harm in going am5 and full beast mode. With a ti or xt and proper x3d.
 
mellow yellow said:
Yeah I have 4 slots but always thought that was a bad idea? I could see if I can match up another 2x8..
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you run the risk of not being able to run the ram at xmp speeds with 4 sticks of ram. usually you're okay, but not always

mellow yellow said:
I do t really mind picking up a 5800x as they are not super expensive but do also need to factor in extra cooling. Or I would go 5700x but they are also hard to get hold of. Unless of course I find a legit x3d, yeah right lol.
But the closer I get to £1k in upgrades I think what's the harm in going am5 and full beast mode. With a ti or xt and proper x3d.
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if all you needed was the cpu then sticking with am4 isn't a bad call

but now you need to double the ram and get a new cpu for the AM4 platform...with prices as they are i would suck it up and go AM5
even the base spec (7500f/7600) is as fast as the 5700x3d/5800x3d and with room for upgrades in the future

honestly, you're over thinking things. just get the gpu upgrade first.
regardless of what you do, you can bring forward the 5070/9070 to the new build, so the first port of call is a new gpu
the rest can be reassessed depending on whether you are happy with the performance uplift going from the 1660S to a 5070/9070
 
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i also agree :D but......... ive opened a bottle of red, made an offer on auction on matching 2x8 sticks (£50). found a 9070 that fits (£550)and a 5800x (£170) plus cooler (£35.00)

So im around £840 deep including delivery and the wine. i'm gonna treat myself to a new keyboard as well and that should keep me going for a bit.

I have a xbox series x to get rid of as well so that will offset the extra for the cpu and keyboard.

Dont all sigh at once :D :D :D

thanks all for the help
 
mellow yellow said:
i also agree :D but......... ive opened a bottle of red, made an offer on auction on matching 2x8 sticks (£50). found a 9070 that fits (£550)and a 5800x (£170) plus cooler (£35.00)

So im around £840 deep including delivery and the wine. i'm gonna treat myself to a new keyboard as well and that should keep me going for a bit.

I have a xbox series x to get rid of as well so that will offset the extra for the cpu and keyboard.

Dont all sigh at once :D :D :D

thanks all for the help
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Nice one, make sure you keep us updated with the build and how much performance you get.
 
so the 4x8gb ram was playing on my mind a little, so i have also ordered 2x16gb 3600 c16. oh and a new 2tb m.2 to replace the SSD i was just using for windows. so when it all arrives i'll do a fresh install and transfer my main games onto the new main drive, i have a slower m.2 already which i'll use for general storage.

I'll just sell the 4x8gb with my 1660 super and old cpu.

The gpu and cpu have arrived.

Cant wait to get it all set up now. Hopefully i will have time next week as the rest starts to arrive.
 
Personally I've never had much luck with running 4 sticks of ram with Ryzen processors. But it really is luck of the draw.
 
Hi all, thanks for your help on this one, everything has arrived and been swapped over, all went smoothly apart from not seating my ram correctly but that was soon sorted with a quick check over everything.

The improvement is night and day.

Ive gone from 60 frames at 1440p to well over 200 frames at 1440p on much higher settings.

Im very happy and this should keep me going for the next few years.
 
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