Stag1928

I'm currently looking at doing similar upgrades, albeit with a Ryzen 5 1400 and from what I gather 1) 1440p becomes a lot more GPU bound, so you'll probably not lose a ton of performance depending on the titles, and 2) it depends on what fps targets you are aiming for. I would bet at 60hz, you'll probably be pretty OK, esp. if you can OC the 2500k. I found this in my own searching on the ryzen question and at 1440p, you can see that it's keeping up with other Intel and Ryzen chips (linked below). It definitely is slower at 1080p, but seems to be above 60fps on average. And since it's AM4, I can drop in a chip just about at any time w/o needing a new board. Also, that R5 3600 seems to kick ass so you can't go wrong with an upgrade - definitely got a lot of life out of the 2500k. https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_5_1400_review,19.html

I've got a couple SSD's already so good there. Why not 1440p out of curiosity? A 5700 XT sure would go a long way on 1080p, that's for sure

Currently I have an R5 1400 @ 3.8ghz, an RX 570 and 8GBs 2666mhz RAM. I'm looking to upgrade to a 5700 XT and use that as an excuse to move to 1440p gaming from 1080p. That being said, I expect the CPU to bottleneck the XT (though less so at 1440 since it's be more GPU bound). Any ideas if this would be leading to a bad gaming experience? Idk if 3k MHz memory would help at all but I'm trying to avoid an overhaul of everything now... I think an i5 7400 would be a comparable CPU.

So I got the MX500 500gb model. Acronis cloned everything so no issues, thank goodness. On an unrelated note, this Crucial storage exec software has an Overprovisioning feature. I understand the gist of it, however is it worth turning it on and further reducing the amount of space available? I've got about 465gb's available out of the 500

Hi All, Looking to get an SSD in my system and turn my WD Blue into a storage drive. I'm unsure if the $80+ difference between an MX500 and a 970 evo is worth it though. Pretty much just use my computer to putz around on the internet and play video games. No cases that result in a lot of disk activity (i.e professional use). Thoughts and opinions? Seems to be that regular SSDs are still good for day to day use and NVME is better for professional type stuff. System as follows: R5 1400 @ 3.8 ASRock B350 Pro4 RX 570 8GB DDR4 @2666 Thanks!