It is time to upgrade my 11 year old system due to constant crashing. Core 2 quad Q9450 OC to 3.2. 8GB DDR2 RAM, GTX 960, SSD. This setup has served me well but it is no longer reliable or cost effective to upgrade.
To me the two main items that are important to start with are the motherboard and CPU since the rest can be upgraded over time. I am leaning to the i9 9900K. I have read many reviews where it is not worth the extra cost over the i7. However these reviewers seem to upgrade a component every month or rebuild every year so I feel we have different outlooks on what is worth/not worth it. Personally I no longer game on my computer, yes it is better than consoles but I have learned the effort to me is not worth it trying to play the stability/drivers/crashing/tweeks game more than actually enjoying the game itself. My use will be mostly video editing and general office use 90% of its life. My question is how effective will the various iseries be in 10 years from now? 6 or 8 core, hyperthreading... Will I look back and wish I spent the extra $150 to get the extra cores/threads?
So far reusing my case, PSU, GPU, SSD with new Mobo, processor, and DDR4 this build will only be about $800. It sounds like the i9 runs hot so i might end up getting a water cooler as well but not sure about the life expectancy of it.
Or is there something big coming out in the near future that will be a huge game changer? (DDR5, ice lake, i47...)
To me the two main items that are important to start with are the motherboard and CPU since the rest can be upgraded over time. I am leaning to the i9 9900K. I have read many reviews where it is not worth the extra cost over the i7. However these reviewers seem to upgrade a component every month or rebuild every year so I feel we have different outlooks on what is worth/not worth it. Personally I no longer game on my computer, yes it is better than consoles but I have learned the effort to me is not worth it trying to play the stability/drivers/crashing/tweeks game more than actually enjoying the game itself. My use will be mostly video editing and general office use 90% of its life. My question is how effective will the various iseries be in 10 years from now? 6 or 8 core, hyperthreading... Will I look back and wish I spent the extra $150 to get the extra cores/threads?
So far reusing my case, PSU, GPU, SSD with new Mobo, processor, and DDR4 this build will only be about $800. It sounds like the i9 runs hot so i might end up getting a water cooler as well but not sure about the life expectancy of it.
Or is there something big coming out in the near future that will be a huge game changer? (DDR5, ice lake, i47...)