[SOLVED] Upgrade Advice

[slipknot7801]

Approximate Purchase Date: Hopefully over the next few weeks (want to get parts till I can find a reasonably priced processor)

Budget Range: It is still open but do not want to go to crazy i.e. $500 motherboard is over budget

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming

Are you buying a monitor: No not till next GPU upgrade



Parts to Upgrade: M.2 (addition), Motherboard (AM4), RAM 16gbs, and CPU (5600x when i can find one)
Do you need to buy OS: No
Please note that if you're using an OEM license of Windows, you will need a new one when buying a new motherboard.

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Not picky as long as they are not shady

Location: Northwest Ohio

Parts Preferences: AMD 5600x cpu

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: Currently 1080p, will be upgraded next couple years when I upgrade GPU again

Additional Comments: Currently working with a 1070 TI GPU. Wifi is not needed.

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: It has been 4ish years since i have last upgraded my cpu(sky lake i5) and have upgraded my gpu since

 

[hftvhftv]

Your best bet right now is buying a whole new pre-built system. It's super unfortunate as a lot of people really want to get into building a custom PC themselves, but parts prices make it impossible to recommend anything custom right now. All I can say is look for something with a 30 series GPU or a 6000 series AMD GPU, and sell your old parts.

 

[slipknot7801]

do you have any sites you recommend to look at?

 

[Why_Me]

I'd do this: wait until next month when Intel releases the new Rocket Lake (11th gen. cpu's) so you get native support for 3200MHz RAM, PCIe 4, and improved IPC.

https://www.newegg.com/black-lian-li-lancool-atx-mid-tower/p/2AM-000Z-00063
LIAN LI LANCOOL II MESH PEROFRMANCE BLACK Tempered Glass ATX Case $99.99

or ...

https://www.newegg.com/black-phanteks-eclipse-p400a-atx-mid-tower/p/N82E16811854085
Phanteks Eclipse P400A PH-EC400ATG_BK01 Black Steel / Tempered Glass ATX Mid Tower $69.99

https://www.newegg.com/seasonic-core-series-core-gm-650-650w/p/N82E16817151244
Seasonic CORE GM-650, 650W 80+ Gold, Semi-Modular, Fan Control in Silent and Cooling Mode $94.99

Go with a B560 board in the $150 range ... I'll use this one for an example but more of these B560 boards from all board manufactures are showing up on websites every few days now.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-B560-TORPEDO
MSI MAG B560 TORPEDO

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/i...e-date-specifications-performance-all-we-know
Intel Rocket Lake i5 11400F ($160 - $170 if I had to guess)

https://www.newegg.com/cooler-master-hyper-212-black-edition-rr-212s-20pk-r1/p/N82E16835103278
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition CPU Air Cooler $39.99

16 GB of RAM is plenty for a gaming build. Corsair, Crucial or G.Skill 3200MHz CL16 ftw.

https://www.newegg.com/ballistix-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820164176
Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM Desktop Gaming Memory Kit 16GB (8GBx2) $76.99

https://www.newegg.com/mushkin-enhanced-pilot-e-2tb/p/N82E16820226902
Mushkin Enhanced Pilot-E M.2 2280 2TB PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 3D TLC Internal SSD Max Sequential Read Up to 3500 MBps | Max Sequential Write Up to 3100 MBps $208.99

Total: $735 (doesn't include case & gpu)

Hold on to your current gpu and register on Bestbuy, EVGA site, etc .. so you can get notified the next time they get a batch of cards in stock such as the RTX 3060 Ti or the RTX 3070.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/nvidia...-card-steel-and-black/6439402.p?skuId=6439402
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card $399.99

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/nvidia...rk-platinum-and-black/6429442.p?skuId=6429442
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card $499.99

Here's a review of the current Comet Lake i5 10400F ($155 on newegg atm). Look for the Rocket Lake version of that chip (i5 11400F) to run circles around it due to native support of 3200Mhz RAM and improved IPC.

Intel Core i5-10400F Review - Six Cores with HT for Under $200

Intel's new Core i5-10400F offers a large performance jump over the previous generation Core i5-9400F because of its six-core/twelve-thread design. In this Core i5-10400F review we also test the feasibility of overclocking through BCLK, or by relaxing the PL1 and PL2 Turbo Limits.

www.techpowerup.com