Worthwhile upgrade?

[Ausy]

Hey guys, looking to upgrade my pc soon but I'm wondering if I'll see a noticeable difference, got to be a bit more frugal these days.

Currently running:- i5 2500K - OCd to 4ghz GTX 1080 16gig DDR3 1600 1440p 144hrz monitor.

Atm looking to upgrade to ryzen 1600 with DDR4, 3200 Cas14 memory. And probably throw an M.2 drive in for good measure.

Tangible difference for gaming?

Appreciate the feedback guys.

Also as an afterthought, I was thinking of getting an SLI mobo. Previously I used to get a good card, then when I'd go to upgrade I'd get much better bang for buck by buying the now older/cheaper card again rather than buying the new line of cards. Still the case?

 

[Aneskimo]

On your cpu you have some good offers on Ryzen with £100 off all across the range with Ocuk if your thinking of making that move, Intel wise the coffee lake i5 is a good shout if your budget doesn’t stretch to the i7. As for going sli Its pretty much dying out there isn’t that much support for going with dual cards nowadays

 

[Journey]

It depends, yes there will be an improvement, maybe 20%+ but the cost will be around £450. So, if you look at it like now you are getting 60fps, and +20% gives you 12 extra FPS, putting it to 72, which means that each frame costs you £37.50.

It's a really bad estimate, but shows you just how much you'll be paying for the increase per frame, you could try pushing the 2500K further, or trying to pick up a bargain 2600K/3770K to put in you motherboard, then overclock that and it should be a pretty significant upgrade to your FPS for little over £100, and if you sell your 2500K, then probably around £60-80.

Upgrading presently is such a rubbish time due to high RAM prices, and the fact that older processors can still mostly keep up with modern GPU's, especially at 1440+.

You said you were being frugal, I believe that is best value for money at the moment.

 

[jigger]

Never been a better time upgrade. Tell me the last time we had sub £300 8c 16t chips.

 

[eddiew]

Upgraded my 2500K @ 4.3 to a 1600X @ stock.

Games that were previously running 100% cpu now run 40-50% and fps feels far more stable and less prone to stutter. If you've got games running 100% cpu then for sure the Ryzen will relieve that bottleneck and let your 1080 stretch its legs

 

[4K8KW10]

Hey guys, looking to upgrade my pc soon but I'm wondering if I'll see a noticeable difference, got to be a bit more frugal these days.

Currently running:- i5 2500K - OCd to 4ghz GTX 1080 16gig DDR3 1600 1440p 144hrz monitor.

Atm looking to upgrade to ryzen 1600 with DDR4, 3200 Cas14 memory. And probably throw an M.2 drive in for good measure.

Tangible difference for gaming?

Appreciate the feedback guys.

Also as an afterthought, I was thinking of getting an SLI mobo. Previously I used to get a good card, then when I'd go to upgrade I'd get much better bang for buck by buying the now older/cheaper card again rather than buying the new line of cards. Still the case?

Hey,

Any possibility that you wanna take the Ryzen 7 1700 with 8 cores / 16 threads?
Of course, there is a very tiny, slim chance that you can unlock the Ryzen 5 1600 to its full 8-cores but to rely on lottery luck..

DDR4 3200 Cas14 will be ideal. M.2 drive with Samsung 960 Evo's read/write speeds is also a good idea.

 

[eddiew]

Of course, there is a very tiny, slim chance that you can unlock the Ryzen 5 1600 to its full 8-cores but to rely on lottery luck..

Wait, that's a thing?

Also as the owner of an m.2 960 pro... they're almost wasted on regular folks. I can't saturate it. Nothing I use gets stuff through the cpu as fast as the disk can read/write, and my actual load/save times on most things are mostly the same as with a sata ssd. I don't dislike the drive, and it benchmarks at full 3gb/s read, but normal usage (including gaming) simply does not use it fully. Reassuring warranty though