[SOLVED] Help!!! Upgrading my Build

[pompa1998]

I am wanting to upgrade my entire build bit by bit but I'm unsure in which to upgrade first when it comes to my GPU and CPU.

Currently I have:
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
NVIDIA 1060 3gb

My goal is to have a monster system so I want to upgrade to the following:

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
NVIDIA 2070 or 2080

obviously I will upgrade the other components to suit but I can only upgrade the CPU or the GPU for the moment because of the sheer cost.

I just want to have some guidance on which to go for first because I know that a high end GPU like that may cause me to have a bottleneck.

 

[jay32267]

Well....if you get the GPU...I think you at least get some significant improvement in games now.

If you get the CPU now....I don't think you're going to see much.

 

[mgallo848]

I would get the GPU first. The 1060 is a nice card but only 3gb of vram will max out faster than anything else you currently have.

 

[demon_king]

You should get 9700k or 9900k & for gpu Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Before deciding on the gpu upgrade, what monitor do you have? If it's 1080p 60hz, then there is no sense in upgrading ur gpu to a 2070/2080.

Decide on the monitor resolution, ultrawide? Curved? 144hz or 100hz? Then choose a gpu accordingly.

I would also wait till the reviews for Radeon VII are out.

You can later decide on the ryzen 3000 series with X570 mobo or the Intel 9900k z390 platform...

 

[pompa1998]

Before deciding on the gpu upgrade, what monitor do you have? If it's 1080p 60hz, then there is no sense in upgrading ur gpu to a 2070/2080.

Decide on the monitor resolution, ultrawide? Curved? 144hz or 100hz? Then choose a gpu accordingly.

I would also wait till the reviews for Radeon VII are out.

You can later decide on the ryzen 3000 series with X570 mobo or the Intel 9900k z390 platform...

I am going to be running 2x 144hz WQHD Curved Monitors

 

[pompa1998]

You should get 9700k or 9900k & for gpu Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070

That would mean I would have to change the MotherBoard unnecessarily as I'm running AMD at the moment

 

[Lucky_SLS]

For gaming on both 2k 144hz monitors, I would look at no less than a 2080ti for long term investment.

If it's gaming in 1 2k and monitoring in another, then a 2080 would do.

 

[demon_king]

For two monitors you should get rtx 2080 ti & to prevent it from bottlenecking you should get 9700k or 9900k as ryzen will bottleneck the rtx 2080 ti.
For Z390 motherboard Aorus Z390 Master is best.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

G sync will take care of bottleneck, no issues there.

 

[siaan312]

not only will g-sync take care of the bottleneck, a ryzen 2700X would not bottleneck it at all. if you REALLY want to not change mobo and get the best cpu for it, wait a couple of months for the 3700x. heard it will go 4.5ghz

 

[Lucky_SLS]

^ not true really, the max fps ryzen gives in the latest AAA games is not more than 110fps. Intel when overclocked gives 120+ fps.

 

[demon_king]

Gsync doesn't eliminate bottlenecking by cpu , it eliminates screen tearing.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

It eliminates both screen tearing and stuttering. Translates to a no bottleneck, ligit 144hz gaming.

 

[jitendrad]

If your main aim is gaming then I will suggest you to only upgrade your GPU to 2070. If you are a streamer then it worth to upgrade your CPU and GPU

 

[siaan312]

^ not true really, the max fps ryzen gives in the latest AAA games is not more than 110fps. Intel when overclocked gives 120+ fps.

intel overclock. you can also overclock amd ya know... I rock an 8700k and built and troubleshot (troubleshooted? English 10/10) a 2600X machine with the same gtx 1080 strix gpu and tweaking both to the same clock speed, intel did beat amd by about 10-15 frames, probably cause of the bigger cache? idk... well intel is better at gaming, but now by that much of a margin

 

[siaan312]

if you want the best performance and best upgradability, yes, you should switch platform. but if you want bang for the buck, I honestly would wait till ryzen gen 3 as from the rumors it should be amazing and even about the same price as current 2700X, with ryzen gen 3 you could probably even get the 2080ti with not bottleneck

and everyone, stop using "bottlenecking" as a boogieman for everyone