Question Should I upgrade or build a whole new pc?

[4lbburrito]

So at the time I built my current gaming pc I got what I could afford. Now a number of years later I am in a much better position financially. The being said, here is a quick run down of what I currently have:

Ryzen 7 1800x 8 core, 3600mhz
ASRock X370 Killer SLI
16gb of ram ( If I'm reading right its like 1067 MHz...)
GTX 1080

My main monitor runs a 2560x1080 x 99 hertz ultra wide.

Any and all recommendations are welcome.

 

[Eximo]

A simple BIOS update will let you drop in anything up through Ryzen 5000. So that is certainly an option. Best to pair that with a new 2x16GB DDR4 3600 memory kit.

Ryzen 7 5800X3D is certainly one of the fastest gaming CPUs available today.

You would still be limited to PCIe 3.0, so best to avoid any 8x only GPUs and stick to x16.

GTX1080 is still relevant, and you could stick with it a little longer. Or get a replacement. Just depends on what you want to spend and how decent your power supply is.

RTX3060 and up, RTX 3050 is an 8x card.
RTX 4070 and up. RTX4060Ti and below will be 8x cards.

RX6700 and up, 6650 XT and below are 8x cards.
RX7700 XT and up, RX7600 is an 8x card.

 

[plusev]

It all depends on whether you're happy with your present setup and what your primary use case is. Workstation? Gaming? A little of both? I also recently upgraded... because I needed to. However, YMMV

 

[plusev]

A simple BIOS update will let you drop in anything up through Ryzen 5000. So that is certainly an option. Best to pair that with a new 2x16GB DDR4 3600 memory kit.

Ryzen 7 5800X3D is certainly one of the fastest gaming CPUs available today.

You would still be limited to PCIe 3.0, so best to avoid any 8x only GPUs and stick to x16.

GTX1080 is still relevant, and you could stick with it a little longer. Or get a replacement. Just depends on what you want to spend and how decent your power supply is.

RTX3060 and up, RTX 3050 is an 8x card.
RTX 4070 and up. RTX4060Ti and below will be 8x cards.

RX6700 and up, 6650 XT and below are 8x cards.
RX7700 XT and up, RX7600 is an 8x card.

The GTX 1080 isn't relevant; the Ti variant was relevant for 1080P 16:9 right up until the 40 series was released. Today, you can get much more value at that resolution with modern mid-range cards, but of course, at that resolution, you're also CPU-bound anyway. Agree with the rest.

 

[Eximo]

The GTX 1080 isn't relevant; the Ti variant was relevant for 1080P 16:9 right up until the 40 series was released. Today, you can get much more value at that resolution with modern mid-range cards, but of course, at that resolution, you're also CPU-bound anyway. Agree with the rest.

GTX1080 is more or less in the performance category of brand new entry level fully featured GPUs. Comfortably comparable to an RTX4060 or RX 6600 XT/ 6650XT.

GPUs don't become irrelevant until they can't play modern titles. GTX1080 can play everything available, maybe not the highest settings or resolutions, but playable. Which is all most people are after with things like the RX6600 or A750, and you wouldn't call those irrelevant.

GTX1080 may actually perform better at certain tasks due to its relatively high memory bandwidth compared to entry level cards.

Not saying it is something anyone should buy today, just that it could stay in service a little longer. 40 series super cards are set to come out and may offer some price disruptions to 40 series, but hopefully more to AMD's 7000 series.

 

[4lbburrito]

A simple BIOS update will let you drop in anything up through Ryzen 5000. So that is certainly an option. Best to pair that with a new 2x16GB DDR4 3600 memory kit.

Ryzen 7 5800X3D is certainly one of the fastest gaming CPUs available today.

You would still be limited to PCIe 3.0, so best to avoid any 8x only GPUs and stick to x16.

GTX1080 is still relevant, and you could stick with it a little longer. Or get a replacement. Just depends on what you want to spend and how decent your power supply is.

RTX3060 and up, RTX 3050 is an 8x card.
RTX 4070 and up. RTX4060Ti and below will be 8x cards.

RX6700 and up, 6650 XT and below are 8x cards.
RX7700 XT and up, RX7600 is an 8x card.

Awesome, thank you for your suggestions. I honestly hadn't realized that I could so easily still use my mobo. I mostly game on my machine and still play most games at relatively high settings. I'll definitely be looking at upgrading over a full rebuild.

 

[SubaruWRX244]

Like @Eximo mentioned. Update the bios to support a Ryzen 5000 series processor. 5800X or 5800X3D are great options.

I'd recommend the GSkill FlareX 3200MHZ CL14 kit. This Samsung B-Die kit is tride and true for having stable XMP profiles.

Finally the graphics card. 6900XT is hard to beat price to performance. A bandwidth bottleneck is highly unlikely. You won't notice much especially on your monitor.