Upgrade time?

[brendonp]

HI all,

I am tempted to upgrade my pc but maybe its time to start over again..

Budget 1500/2000

Specs

Gigabyte Z370P
I7-8700k 3.7Ghz
Corsair RM Series RM850 850 Watt
Gigabyte Radeon RX 6700 XT
Vulcan 32gb DDR4
Acer 1080p 144hz 27" Monitor

I want to be able to stream and play games at high FPS.

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Tetras]

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-13600K (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-6AV-IN) = £319.99
• 1 x Asus Prime Z790-P WIFI (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6JR-AS) = £209.99
• 1 x Crucial Pro 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C46 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-CRU-01085) = £169.99
• 1 x Powercolor Radeon RX 7900 XT HellHound 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-1AR-PC) = £709.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN580 2TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-WDC-00541) = £102.95
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool 216 Mid-tower PC case - Black (SKU: CA-7BG-LL) = £89.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus GX-850 850W 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply (SKU: CA-06T-SS) = £119.99

Total: £1,734.88 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

Cooler: this.

Motherboard does not have flashback, so might be unsuitable for 14th gen CPUs "out of the box".

I included 64GB just because you already have 32GB. You could re-use the memory and get a DDR4 motherboard.

If you're happy to re-use your Corsair, I'd dump the PSU in my spec, same goes for the case.

Your existing graphics card is a pretty good match for 1080p, but I think you'll need at least a 7900 GRE, just so that the upgrade is meaningful.

 

[sx_turbo]

Keep your power supply, change components to the below, maybe upgrade monitor to 1440p.

The ,4070ti is perhaps ram limited, but in bench marks it's pretty much level with the 7900xt and costs much less (at least on OCUK)

Your remaining parts can then be sold, you'll get a couple hundred back for the 6700xt

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 4070 Super Twin Edge 12Gb Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-01499) = £589.99
• 1 x Asus Prime B650M-A WIFI II (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro-ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6K6-AS) = £139.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core 5.00GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DT-AM) = £350.00
• 1 x G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo EXPO 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - B (SKU: MEM-GSK-01361) = £239.98
• 1 x Arctic Liquid Freezer III High Performance CPU Water Cooler - 360mm (SKU: COO-ARC-01991) = £77.00
• 1 x WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E) (SKU: HD-58G-WD) = £109.99

Total: £1,514.94 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

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[Dreadi]

For 2k you should be able to muster a 7800x3d/7900 xtx build

 

[sx_turbo]

Double post sorry

 

[tamzzy]

if you're using nvenc for stream encoding, there's nothing that comes close with radeon.
depending on how hardcore your streaming is, this may tilt in favour of nvidia