Build Advice PC Upgrade to Ryzen 3000

ms228

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Hi everyone,

I'm currently thinking of upgrading my PC to Ryzen 3000. I use it for gaming and also use GNS3 and the usual internet usage. I do like to stream programs to my TV while gaming too. I'm looking at spending around £1000 (plus or minus £100-200)

I've currently got:

Case - Fractal Design R4
PSU - XFX 850w XT Series Bronze Wired Power Supply Unit (P1-850SNLB9)
CPU - 3770k - OC'd to 4.5
Motherboard - AsRock Z77 Extreme4
RAM - 2x4Gb 2133Mhz
GPU - MSI 1080 Gaming
Cooler - Cooler Master Hyper Evo 212
SDD - 1x128Gb M4 & 1x500Gb Crucial CT512MX
HDD - 2x6Tb WD
Screens - 1xAsus PG278Q and 1xTV

I'm looking to upgrade to Ryzen 3000 and currently thinking the below setup:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/x7NnZR

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9 GHz 8-Core Processor (£379.99 @ AWD-IT)
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-U14S 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler (£56.99 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Asus - ROG Crosshair VII Hero ATX AM4 Motherboard (£220.40 @ Alza)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory (£89.99 @ Corsair UK)
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£197.49 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB GAMING X 8G Video Card (Use Existing)
Case: Fractal Design - Define R4 ATX Mid Tower Case (Use Existing)
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx (2018) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£94.00 @ AWD-IT)
Case Fan: Noctua - NF-A15 PWM 140 mm Fan (£18.85 @ Amazon UK)
Case Fan: Noctua - NF-A14 PWM 82.5 CFM 140 mm Fan (£21.48 @ CCL Computers)
Case Fan: Noctua - NF-A14 PWM 82.5 CFM 140 mm Fan (£21.48 @ CCL Computers)
Case Fan: Noctua - NF-A14 PWM 82.5 CFM 140 mm Fan (£21.48 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £1122.15
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

A few things i'm not too sure on:
Upgrading the PSU
I may not get the Fans as the Fractal ones are pretty good.
I will wait to see the difference in benchmarks between the 3800X and 3700X
Not too sure whether to go for X570 instead of X470.

Any thoughts would be welcome! :)
 
The xfx psu is just a seasonic in disguise, so should be fine there ,unless its really old. You will need to get an x570 board, unless you can update the bios on the x470 with a previous gen chip, last year amd sent out bios upgrade kits, but idk this time.

Everything else looks solid.

Thanks for that max! :) My PSU is about 6 years old, so getting on a bit. Think i will wait for some more x570 motherboard reviews to come out and go from there - depending on the cost of everything else then i will update the PSU if i have some spare cash!
 
I would replace the psu. Even if it's a good unit, power supplies don't age like fine wine.

Your new setup looks pretty dang good. Waiting a month or few won't hurt. By that time there will be plenty of reviews and performance may, in fact, increase with windows, software, and agesa/bios updates.

LTT found some launch day issues with, yet again, windows scheduler was randomly placing tasks on cores on different CCX causing increased latency and wildly varying framerates while gaming. They were able to fix this by setting the affinity to one ccx or something like that. Microsoft said this was fixed with the last windows updates, but apparently not. I suspect more game or windows updates will come.
 
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