Upgrade time (£1000)

[Bobybobp]

I think it's coming to the time where I need to think about upgrading a chunk of components from my build and so I've come to ask for some advice on what parts I should look at getting.

Some of my parts are nearing 9 years old now and I feel like they are starting to lag behind a bit (sitting at around 99%-100% on some games). However, I have bought a few parts more recently that I'm hoping will still be viable in the new build.

The parts that I plan on keeping from my current PC are:

• Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case, bought this case 2 years ago and really like the look and feel so thinking I will keep this as well.
• GPU: ASUS GTX 1080Ti, I think this one should still keep me going for some time.
• Storage: I have 2 small SSDs and 2 large HDD that I'll probably keep for the new build.

So the parts that I'll need to buy are:

• Motherboard,
• CPU,
• CPU fan,
• RAM,
• PSU,
• Possibly another SSD

Looking at buying a Ryzen 9 CPU but I have no idea about which one and what motherboard/RAM to pair it with.

The types of games I play can vary but I like to play some higher-end games like RDR2 and Escape from tarkov and then some other less demanding games like rocket league, I'm also looking to play the new mount and blade bannerlord when it finally comes out

My budget is £1000

Thank you in advance for your advice.

 

[EsaT]

No sense to change case unless there's something missing in it.
Would be just harder to find as flexible for expansion cases.

Also that's such good GPU that waiting for fall to have new generation GPUs out and hopefully true competion is best.
No matter how ludcirously overpriced per performance, you don't even get future proofing current.
Nvidia's marketing "forgets" to tell that actuall using that marketing feature of RTXes crashed down their performance with 30-50% framerate loss.


With upgrade path offered by AMD Ryzen 3700X is the bang per buck CPU choise at £275 for 8 cores/16 threads.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3b7-am.html
12c/24t costs luxury now and if you want the longest usage life from PC, upgrade to improved architecture Zen3 would help.
After release of Zen4 there should be also nice discounts on Zen3 giving 12 core at good price in fall 21 - winter 22.

For motherboard choise depends on CPU and do you want to have as long as possible usage life.
MSI B450 Tomahawk is perfect for 3700X and with proper case airflow would work decently with 12 cores.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-b450-tomahawk-max-socket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-33t-ms.html

But for maximal usage life £200 level X570 would give stronger CPU VRMs and better features.
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite comes with nice feature set and among better of X570 designed chipset cooler which isn't suffocated by non-blower GPUs.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...4-x570-chipset-atx-motherboard-mb-57w-gi.html
(best in B450 MSI went from hero to total zero in X570 VRMs)


For just 8 core sub £30 CPU coolers and even £21 cooler would be enough.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/arctic-freezer-34-cpu-cooler-120mm-hs-077-ar.html
For 12 core/upgrade to it more expensive is justified.
Something like Scythe Mugen 5 is step behind the best.
Only dual slow speed fan PCGH version is in stock, but Arctic P12 is very well priced good fan.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/scythe-scmg-5pcgh-mugen-5-pcgh-edition-cpu-cooler-hs-047-sy.html


For RAM 16GB is good now for basically any game if you don't want to keep web browser open on background.
(multi-tab web browsing consumes multiple gigabytes fast)
But next-gen consoles coming in fall-before Christmas likely start some kind increase in memory usage of games.
After all most games are multiplatters and have been designed to be crammed into small memories of current antique consoles.

3200MHz CL16 is reasonable minimum for Ryzen and well priced now.
3600MHz is what can be considered as highest memory clock achievable with pretty much any CPU individual.
Though also very well priced Crucial Ballistix with Micron E-die chips is very good overclocker and would reach 3600MHz CL16 with high probability:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cruc...b-kit-2-x-16gb-ddr4-3200-udimm-my-20d-cr.html
Factory 3600MHz costs some more:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cruc...-ddr4-3600-udimm-gaming-memory-my-20g-cr.html

Only memory better than Micron E-die is Samsung B-die, which costs lot more.


In PSUs there's plenty of choise.
With 10 year warranty 80+ Golds starting from £90 level
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/search?sSearch=phanteks+amp
Though 80+ Platinum efficiency with soem premium wouldn't be out of place for long time use.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/search?sSearch=seasonic+focus+platinum

And if you want top level performance 12 year warranty Seasonic Prime is there.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seas...-80-plus-platinum-power-supply-ca-07b-ss.html
Ultimate top efficiency 80+ Titanium costs luxury:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/search?sSearch=seasonic+titanium


For SSD NVMe drives aren't that much more expensive than good SATA SSDs.
Unless you want to pay Samsung's brand overprice tax.
With limited number of M.2 slots smaller than 1TB wouldn't make sense on this kidn budget.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/teamgroup-mp34-1tb-nvme-pcie-m.2-solid-state-drive-hd-00b-tg.html