GreenToxon

OK cool, thank you guys for your input. I know the 2700X is starting to show it's age with gaming, but being under the big cooler it gets to clock itself up a good amount. I think I'm going to look for a 3900X around me so I can some IPC increase and a couple of extra cores/threads which would make the upgrade even more worth it. Then just wait a couple of years for future Ryzen/RTX cards and then do a whole new system upgrade.

Alright guys so I've been meaning to upgrade to an RTX 3080, wasn't interested in buying one until I got that dumb virus that's going around so I'm gonna have a lot of free time. I've been on the hunt to buy one for about 4 days and I managed to snag an EVGA FTW3 3080 from Amazon. Now to the details, I built my rig about 2 years ago and upgraded my graphics card last year September when I got the new monitor CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X CPU Cooler: Dark Rock Pro 4 Mobo: Asus B450-F GAMING RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3000MHZ PSU: Corsair 860AXi Platinum Storage: 1TB 970 EVO NVME Video Card: EVGA XC3 RTX 2070 Super 3440x1440 120HZ Ultrawide Alienware monitor. The RTX 2070 Super is great for this resolution, just struggles a bit with the newest games to push the higher refresh rates. Will my current PC hold back the RTX 3080 enough to where it's worth upgrading? Or can I pop in a Ryzen 3800X/3900X and avoid all of the other upgrades. I feel like I need to upgrade to about a Ryzen 7 5800X, for the newest architecture. But it's only $100 extra to get a Ryzen 9 5900X which is 4 cores/8threads more. If I need a new motherboard/CPU/RAM/ should I just rebuild a new PC and part out my old build? I'm gonna have to replace the mobo for the newer CPU, to get more features, then the RAM since newer Zen makes use of faster memory, I also need more storage so I can use this SSD as a game drive so I'm basically just a PSU/case from a new rig. Thanks for any of the input guys

The Ryzen 7 would actually offer him 2 more physical cores and 10 more threads. Ryzen 7 8/16 i5 8600K 6/6 And for gaming + streaming you should definitely consider Ryzen 5 or Ryzen 7 as the i5 may not be able to keep up gaming + streaming (LTT has made videos on this) For purely gaming, the i5 OC'd would get a little more FPS than the Ryzen chips.

What's your intended use for this PC? That 2600K still works well with an RX570 as it is a mid-range gpu so not much of a bottleneck there.

Let us know how this turns out and the performance difference to the 2600K!! I'm still on my 2700K (same thing basically) and have been thinking about upgrading. I don't game much on PC but was considering AMD v Intel and wanted to pick up like an RX 590 / GTX 1060 to go along with it. I'm waiting on Ryzen 3000 series before I make my final decision. Thing is that I do like how the 2700K has lasted me almost 7/8 years and I feel like the i9 9900k would do the same. It might be worth it paying that extra money upfront and having that piece of mind. Especially since I want to upgrade storage/NVME drive etc as well.

They're OK when you need some cable in a rush and can't wait. And you have $20 for a 3.5mm audio cable.

It's a lot of effort to really help save the environment. And sometimes recycled things are more expensive. It's a lot easier to just be lazy and not care. Especially since global warming/climate change happens over a long period of time so it's harder to make that connection of "I don't help the environment we all suffer later." Also, most pollution and damage is caused by industry and big corporations. It costs a lot of money to be "green" so why would they do it?

That's kind of a sad post, they knocked down some trees for a sign? That's it? People don't complain about all the trees being knocked down for those nice cozy houses everyone wants to live in. Tweeting "save the planet save the planet" from inside their room with the AC on full blast every day in the summer. Yeah, sure.

I think Google is one of the only companies you can trust, I'd rather have all my stuff with them instead of a ton of different companies. Not much of a choice, but meh

Yeah, it's a pretty good upgrade. Especially since you aren't overclocking. An i7 2600K only still hangs around with the new CPU's if it's OC'ed to 4.5GHz + You'd get more performance from your 1070 too.

I would be but didn't catch the start. Wasn't a big fan of the series as I didn't hear about it until 3 episodes ago. Would be nice to watch the last one but I will wait for it to be on YT so I can watch from the beginning.

Grab him right by the ........... oh wait nevermind.

I think the only reason that it seems to work is that if someone happens to spill water on their device, they turn it off. And leaving it in the rice overnight or for a few days means that at least they won't be attempting to power it on (which is what would short something out). 2-3 days later maybe if any water got it it's dried or moved somewhere that doesn't harm it. Not absorbed though as most people think it does.

You will be fine, it's only for a day and if it gets too hot the CPU will throttle itself anyway. Don't worry about it.

DOOM, get the MSI one