Build Advice Looking to Upgrade my Setup

[king jarbeefis]

Hey all, I have a setup that I'm looking to upgrade and that could either be new peripherals or new components, my system is beefy (in my opinion) as is but I'm looking to push my user experience. I'm familiar with the actual physical components and how to build a pc as I put mine together myself and have upgraded it myself, however I'm at a point where I'm not really sure where to go from here. I'm not great with the super technical side of things but any suggestions would be appreciated and as for budget I'd like to keep any purchases under $1000 USD. I mainly play video games and dabble in video editing on the odd occasion.

Parts List
Ignore the incompatibilities everything works as intended

 

[Why_Me]

With the prices of video cards being totally insane atm there's nothing I would change.

 

[king jarbeefis]

With the prices of video cards being totally insane atm there's nothing I would change.

I figured as much and I was mainly gravitating towards getting a new monitor 1440p even higher refresh rate OLED maybe

 

[helper800]

I figured as much and I was mainly gravitating towards getting a new monitor 1440p even higher refresh rate OLED maybe

I love my OLED gaming monitor, definitely worth the cost IMO. This is a great monitor for the price in my opinion. If your monitor preferences include 4k or 21:9 or 32:9 instead let me know.

 

[Eximo]

You could update the platform and make the switch to AM5. 7950X3D or the like to keep your core count high and still be great at gaming. 9950X3D just came out. Both are quite expensive. Faster cores of the 7800X3D9800X3D would offset the loss of the 12 core CPU as well.

But you would really need to look at the games you play to see if they benefit from the X3D chips.

 

[logainofhades]

You could move over to AM5, for an upgrade path, and sell the old hardware to make up some of the difference, to help with budget. The 9950x3d is expensive, and some places the prices are inflated, as it just came out, but is an all around beast of a CPU. I would definitely wait for stock to show up, so you can get it at MSRP.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 4.3 GHz 16-Core Processor ($699.00 @ Best Buy)
Motherboard: Gigabyte X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7 ATX AM5 Motherboard ($276.95 @ Amazon)
Memory: Patriot Viper Venom RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory ($84.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1060.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-03-14 13:34 EDT-0400

 

[king jarbeefis]

You could update the platform and make the switch to AM5. 7950X3D or the like to keep your core count high and still be great at gaming. 9950X3D just came out. Both are quite expensive. Faster cores of the 7800X3D9800X3D would offset the loss of the 12 core CPU as well.

But you would really need to look at the games you play to see if they benefit from the X3D chips.

I definitely could and I assume buy upgrade the platform you mean the motherboard as I believe its's AM4

 

[helper800]

I definitely could and I assume buy upgrade the platform you mean the motherboard as I believe its's AM4

Platform usually refers to the socket and its supported CPUs and RAM. This almost always includes CPU + MOBO and occasionally RAM. In your case you would also need a new RAM kit as DDR5 is all AM5 supports.