Upgrades for future proofing?

C6ckneyGeezer

C6ckneyGeezer

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Hi guys! Here from some advice as always.

I built my rig about 2/3 years ago if I remember. It's setup in the living room in my TV unit so I have no need for RGB, LEDS or any other fancy stuff, as you can't see in the case at all. The main use for my rig is gaming, movies and music on a 49" Smasung KS7000 TV. Oh and the odd bit of Photoshop and web design.

My question:
Apart from the GPU is there anything worth upgrading to keep me gaming for the next 2 years or so, keeping the same performance? Mainly speaking of the CPU and RAM. GPU of course...when I can get one lol

I know the Hero X can take a 9900k, worth the upgrade from a 6 core to 8 core?

I also see games now seem to take up about 12GB-ish of RAM, worth taking the jump to 32GB?

The Crucial SSD has done me proud but I do need a 1TB drive soon. But I assume no gaming benefit going NVMe? or just get a nice Samsung SSD for about £120.

I like to game at either 1440p or 4k depending on the game. Shooters I tend to use 1440p on low and grab the extra FPS (Warzone 120fps for example) and other games I just lock at 60fps and run 4k.

Do I just keep my current setup and try to snag a RTX 3080 and be happy for the next 2 years?

Any advice much appreciated as always :)

Current spec:
i7-8700k @ 5.0Ghz Delided + Noctua NH-D15
Asus ROG Maximus X Hero
16GB Team Group Dark Pro "8 Pack Edition" @ 3200Mhz
Zotac AMP! Extreme Core GTX 1080Ti @ 2060Mhz Core @ 12200Mhz Mem
Crucial 480GB SSD
Seagate 1TB HDD
Thermal Grizzly Thermals all round
Corsair RM750X
Corsair Carbide 540 Air Case

Edit: Also, I checked and my PSU is now 5 years old! Worth changing due to age or leave well alone?
 
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Personally would wait to see Intel 11thnor better yet 12th Gen in October . Your CPU should be fine currently for now. Def Intel 12th or Zen4 would be the most future proof with switch to ddr5 and PCIe 5

Tend to swap PSU nearing end of warranty / if a certain model is EOL for a set period or if more power is required
 
9900K costs simply too much for only two extra cores.
And 8 cores really isn't any high end "run even the most demanding game with web browsers/voice chats etc on background" future proof.

Also while more memory could help in some games especially if you keep stuff open on background, DDR4 is approaching end of its life with DDR5 being standard in two years.
Hence that would be short time investment.


That half TB SSD is definitely small for todays games and in need of replacement/companion.
In most games NVMe doesn't make any notable difference and that's probably going to continue for long time for average game.
Though Doom Eternal has more than few percent difference:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/hp-ex900-pro-1-tb-m-2-nvme-ssd/13.html
In year or two difference is probably starting to become more common.

Anyway basic NVMe with transfer rate four times the SATA SSD doesn't cost really any more than SATA drive.
Actually even full PCIe v3 speed drives don't cost much more...
If you forget Samsung, which has nothing nice in SSDs with drives being brand overpriced money grabs:
I mean selling garbage tech QLC Flash SATA drive with far slower than HDD write speeds after cacher filling at higher price than TLC based NVMe!

For that basic NVMe WD Blue SN550 is the choise.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/search?ssearch=sn550
for full pcie v3 speed drive corsair mp510/wd sn750
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...-state-drive-cssd-f960gbmp510b-hd-065-cs.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t3x0c-hd-55v-wd.html
 
Thanks for the replies guys! Very much appreciate all the advise :) So it seems a new GPU is off the cards due to stock, I see no point in upgrading my 1080Ti unless it's for a 3080 or better tbh. So, onto storage!

Now I need more storage in general and I need to run 2 drives, but which would be better?

Option 1: 2TB SSD boot/os, apps and games drive + 250GB SSD data backup drive.

Option 2: 250GB NVME boot/os and apps drive - 2TB SSD games a data backup drive.

For data backup I only need about 20gb, so not a lot. I would be inclined to go with option 1. Option 2 being slightly more money with no real performance for myself?

I can't see me seeing any performance increase going for an NVME, as all I do it watch media, game and the odd bit of Photoshop etc?
 
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