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Question Upgrading Gaming PC (Need Help!)

Dec 30, 2022
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Good Morning,

I have a gaming PC that I built a number of years ago, it seems fine but I am thinking of upgrading some bits to make it a bit more capable of future gaming.

Can you recommend any upgrades:

Power SupplyCorsair RM850
MotherboardMSI Z370 GAMING PRO CARBON
ProcessorIntel Core i5-8600K
MemoryCorsair Vengance 16 GB RAM DDR4 (2x8) 3200mhz
GPUMSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Added in EDIT:
I am UK based, budget is flexible to get the right result... so lets say £1k max.
Ram Speed added above.
Storage is 2x Corsair SSD 1TB and 1 is 500GB

Thanks in advance for your assistance.
 
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Added in original post as an edit! Thank you.
All the good stuff is being released next week at the CES event including Intel's locked cpu's and B760 / H770 boards. Expect them to start showing up on UK sites within the next two weeks. Early benches leaked out of Asia show i5 13400 / 13400F going head to head with the 12600K and that's with an ES chip and crap bios.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/c...-12400-by-over-20-percent-in-early-benchmarks

I linked the Asus H670 DDR4 board to give you an idea of what to expect with the new H770 DDR5 board. There's also going to be less expensive B760 DDR5 boards released within the next few weeks.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09NWFPC34
ASUS TUF Gaming H770-PRO WiFi £250 if I had to guess.

Intel Core i5 13400F £200 if I had to guess.
6 P-cores / 4 E-cores / 16 threads

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09NCNF2ZQ
Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 5600 32GB (2x16GB) CL36 £155.99

asush770.jpg
 
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