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Hi all,

What seems like a lifetime ago, I purchased an I5-3570K syustem and built it to run for gaming and productivity. Since then I have upgraded the cooling (Corsair H100) and the chip itself to an I7-3770K and got a little more out of it via OC'ing.

I'm looking at a brand new build (albeit with some second hand parts depending on how I go) but I need some help as I've been out of the game for some time.

My use case is genuinely a mix of Gaming, Productivity and Video Editing. If I had to split, I'd say 30%//60%//10% respectively.

I did look at Ryzen 1600X as a nice multiple core beast to cover most of what I'm after but I'm worried that it will end up letting the gaming side down.

Budget wise, I'm trying to get as close to the £1000 mark as possible (not including a monitor as I've got dual Dell S2415H's which I could carry on with, but I might look for an Ultrawide...hence why exluding from budget).

I'm really just after some ideas. If bang for buck says I need to spend a little more then so be it. Any suggestions.

Here's what I'm rocking currently:

I7-3770K @ 4.2Ghz
Asus P8Z77-V LX2 motherboard
16GB Patriot Viper DDR3
Corsair H100 AIO
Few SSDs and 4TB HDD - storage isn't a concern in this build.
GTX 970 4GB VRAM
Corsair Carbide 300R
Dual Dell S2415H monitors
 
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orbitalwalsh said:
if your video editing , Ryzen 1700- it performance then same as 1600 when gaming pretty much but 4k editing will pull through - and is cheaper then Intel coffeelake options- specially the i7 8700k at the moment - but seeing the amount of percentage you spending editing - could get away with 1600.... but if you've got an i7 3770k already - no real point, but you've listed i5 3570k as well so a bit confused

if you've got an i7 ... would just get a wide screen and new GPU :D
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Hey, sorry for the confusion - I've updated my original post. I mentioned originally I had upgraded from 3570K to 3770K but then added I still had 3570K in my rig, which I obviously don't :)

I seem to be process constrained is all though with stutters on one monitor when I'm running things on another. I'm wondering whether it's my OC not being stable now though.

I dunno, I just thought a new rig would be required.
 
southernorth said:
There are many AMD cpus on offer at the moment:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/amd-ryzen-ripper-discounts-upto-100-saving.18797456/

For your budget I would recommend an 8-core AMD CPU for productivity, so like a 1700/1700x. The AM4 platform will also allow you to upgrade for the next ~2 years, should you want a performance upgrade later on.


For a GPU, the 1070ti is meant to release on October 26th, which could affect pricing of all 1070s, 1080s and perhaps even VEGA. It might be wise to wait until then to decide on GPU.


For a more gaming focused CPU, the i5-8400/8600k would be a good option for price/performance but it performs worse in productivity. It depends on if you want to get ~10% better gaming performance, at the cost of waiting a few minutes extra for a render to finish, or worse gaming performance but quicker render times. Unfortunately the i5-8400/8600k are either OOS, or price-gouged at the moment so you would need to wait a month if you went this route.



Also, what's your PSU?
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PSU is find - 80+ Gold Seasonic 650 if I recall correctly (not looked in about 6 months)

However, I was thinking about a brand new build with EVERYTHING included so I can flog this one, but I can always break it down piecemeal perhaps.
 
You've all given me some serious food for thought here. I suppose I could upgrade the GPU now and see how we go, but my Ivybridge is ageing...a lot.

Mutli-tasking processor intensive tasks and streaming videos on the other monitor causes stutter and the like currently and I can't upgrade my chip anymore on this board.

So, I think I've narrowed down my options to:

  • Buy a new GPU right now and see how it increases performance and tinker with settings on current rig before upgrading the entire thing
  • Upgrade entire rig and buy a Ryzen 1700 and OC it
  • Just crawl back into my cave and ignore the world a bit longer :)
 
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