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Hi Friends,
It's been too long since I was last on here and even longer since my last PC upgrade. Sadly it's time for my trusty old i7 920 to be retired.
I've decided I'd like to upgrade and potentially give VR a shot. The main use of the PC will be for gaming. I'm currently thinking Ryzen 7 1700 but am more than open to 7700k builds etc. if people think that's the way to go.
My budget, I'd love to get this done for around £600 but am well aware that a little more invested now could be beneficial down the road, could potentially be persuaded to stretch to ~£850.
What I already have/will bring from my current PC:
Thanks is advance
It's been too long since I was last on here and even longer since my last PC upgrade. Sadly it's time for my trusty old i7 920 to be retired.
I've decided I'd like to upgrade and potentially give VR a shot. The main use of the PC will be for gaming. I'm currently thinking Ryzen 7 1700 but am more than open to 7700k builds etc. if people think that's the way to go.
My budget, I'd love to get this done for around £600 but am well aware that a little more invested now could be beneficial down the road, could potentially be persuaded to stretch to ~£850.
What I already have/will bring from my current PC:
- GPU: GTX 970 - think I'll keep this for a year or so still to free up some more money
- HDDs: 4x1TB WD Blacks for games et al.
- Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 - perfectly happy with this but will clearly need to buy new mounts
- Case
- Optical drive
- Peripherals (Monitors, keyboard etc.)
- SSD: Samsung 840 Pro - Does M.2 Provide any real benefit?
- PSU: Huntkey 900W X7 (80+ Silver IIRC) - Been flawless all these years. Only thing that's making me think it might be worth a change is it's age.
- CPU - as above - thinking Ryzen 7 1700 but open to suggestions
- MOBO - I believe the x370 chipset might be the way to go due to the extra USB3 needed for VR (although I've seen B350 seems vastly more popular on here). Other than that I know nothing about AMD motherboards. Built in WiFi would be nice and as always the more ports the better.
- RAM - This is where I get even more lost. Ryzen needs very nippy RAM but sometimes doesn't work with the nippiest of RAM? Would appreciate guidance here.
Thanks is advance