[SOLVED] Upgrading

[Nezziepooh]

Good Afternoon/Morning/Night where ever you may be.

I'm from Australia and would like some help with building/upgrading my current set up for the coming cybrepunk 2077.

Current specs are attached.

Keep in mind I have some features not showing like a CPU cooling system and the Seahawk 980ti has 6Gig of I believe DDR5 ram, not sure why speccy has shown 2gig.

From what I can tell the power unit is over 5 years old and starting to show it's age so that's getting replaced. the mother board potentially too?
Not sure about the CPU probably still good for another 2-3 years. graphics card is starting to show low high-medium on new age games.
Maybe better ram too?

I'm looking at saving about 3k. 2k for internal parts and 1k for monitors wanting to have the system good to go before cyberpunk as I think that will be a game breaking max system game so with Christmas coming up can probably get parts a good rate.

Looking forward to responses!


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From Speccy

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 4790 @ 3.60GHz 40 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 932MHz (10-11-10-30)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (SOCKET 1150) 37 °C
Graphics
LG TV (1920x1080@60Hz)
VE247 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (MSI) 37 °C
Storage
465GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD)) 34 °C
232GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB (SATA (SSD)) 33 °C
111GB KINGSTON SH103S3120G (SATA-3 (SSD)) 34 °C
232GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB (SATA (SSD)) 35 °C
465GB Samsung Portable SSD T5 SCSI Disk Device (USB (SATA) (SSD)) 32 °C
1863GB Seagate Expansion Desk USB Device (USB (SATA) ) 46 °C
Optical Drives
DiscSoft Virtual SCSI CdRom Device
DiscSoft Virtual SCSI CdRom Device
ASUS DRW-24D5MT
Audio
VB-Audio VoiceMeeter VAIO

 

[vMax]

Here is a baseline on a upgrade on the core parts and everything else can be reused, specifically the SSD's and HD's. Based on the Ryzen 3600, DDR4 3200 and an X570 motherboard so no faffing with the BIOS and for GPU the RTX 2070 Super but the RX 5700XT is also an option.

You can save a bit by going a bit cheaper on the parts but on things like the PSU, I would not cheap out thus the mighty EVGA G3 Gold...

Finally you could go the Intel route with the 9700K which will provide a boost to FPS but the cost goes up a fair bit.

Hopefully other will jump in with better suggestions..

PCPartPicker Part List: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/gRvbXv

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor ($299.00 @ Shopping Express)
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 GAMING X ATX AM4 Motherboard ($265.00 @ Shopping Express)
Memory: Team T-FORCE DARK Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($111.09 @ Amazon Australia)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card ($837.10 @ Newegg Australia)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($196.00 @ Skycomp Technology)
Total: $1708.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-27 22:17 AEDT+1100

 

[Nezziepooh]

Here is a baseline on a upgrade on the core parts and everything else can be reused, specifically the SSD's and HD's. Based on the Ryzen 3600, DDR4 3200 and an X570 motherboard so no faffing with the BIOS and for GPU the RTX 2070 Super but the RX 5700XT is also an option.

You can save a bit by going a bit cheaper on the parts but on things like the PSU, I would not cheap out thus the mighty EVGA G3 Gold...

Finally you could go the Intel route with the 9700K which will provide a boost to FPS but the cost goes up a fair bit.

Hopefully other will jump in with better suggestions..

PCPartPicker Part List: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/gRvbXv

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor ($299.00 @ Shopping Express)
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 GAMING X ATX AM4 Motherboard ($265.00 @ Shopping Express)
Memory: Team T-FORCE DARK Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($111.09 @ Amazon Australia)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card ($837.10 @ Newegg Australia)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($196.00 @ Skycomp Technology)
Total: $1708.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-27 22:17 AEDT+1100

Hey man thanks for the help.

Can you explain why AMD is the better option?

From my prior experience with AMD more graphics cards based was terrible.

Just want to make sure I get the right components

 

[vMax]

Good question!!!!

For me and this is only on a personal level, for gaming I do still prefer Intel as seen by my 8700K overclocked to 4.9GHz but AMD have come a long way and there current Ryzen series is actually very, very good especially when it comes to price versus performance where they tend to win and win quiet well.

The latest generation in the 3000 series with the 3600, 3700X and above etc.. are very good CPUs and are no longer like the AMD CPU's of old and on the gaming side not too far of the Intel side though Intel still has a lead on pure single core strengths and clock speeds. Where Ryzen does start wining is on the productivity side especially for the price. They have greatly improved in all areas including IPC.

It all comes down to budget and how much you have to spend. Where budgets are tight, the 3600 really comes into its own and you have to also look at the upgrade path which is also very good on Ryzen. The AMD CPU's no longer suffer from bad IPC and work very well without to many issues any more. Overclocking is not that good on Ryzen as they are pretty much running at there limits so Intel still allows for much more headroom but all things being considered it just comes down to money and whether you are happy to pay a bit more for Intel. For best gaming performance, the 9700K is immense and the 9900K though the best is quiet expensive.

Bottom line, AMD in Ryzen have greatly improved across the board. On the GPU side, again they have improved with the new 5700 and 5700XT though Nvidia still hold the lead but AMD GPU's just have a better price. I still went Nvidia as AMD do not have anything to compete at the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080TI level but the 5700 and 5700XT match up fairly well with the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 Super with the 2070 Super edging the 5700XT....

Hopefully I have not confused you....

If budget was not an issue, then me personally, this is the way I would have gone:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/tGLpGc

CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor ($556.00 @ Shopping Express)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($82.00 @ Shopping Express)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 GAMING X ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($228.73 @ Amazon Australia)
Memory: Team T-FORCE DARK Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($111.09 @ Amazon Australia)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card ($837.10 @ Newegg Australia)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($196.00 @ Skycomp Technology)
Total: $2010.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-29 00:10 AEDT+1100