Heya folks, there's so many options and I just need to throw up my hands and ask for help!
1. Budget & Location
Amount is flexible. Less than £300 would be ideal. Up to £500 could be managed and more if I end up needing more than just a motherboard and CPU. I live in the UK, so anything available there is perfect.
2. Aim
I mostly play video games on this machine, I don't usually play AAA titles but I do from time to time. I also play VR using a HTC vive which can be more demanding.
I was previously using it as an unraid machine but I found it to be unstable / a hassle to maintain without much use of it more than a file server so I aim to potentially seperate those functions.
3. Monitors
I have two monitors, I believe that both of them are 2K. One of them can run at 144 htz frame rate
4. Peripherals
I was using windows within an unraid share in the past. I may do so again. I have all the other equioment that I may require.
5. Why are you upgrading?
I am upgrading because I had a past machine that recently died on me :(
We ask this because you may see upgrading as the only path to solve an issue but things such as driver updates, reconfiguration or cleaning can boost performance without spending a cent.
6. Existing parts?
X99 3.1 Deluxe Motherboard (DEAD - I think)
Intel i7 5820K (Potentially alive, no way to tell)
Nvidia 980 Ti
Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz C16 XMP
EVGA SuperNova NEX750G 750W Full Modular 80+ Gold efficiency power supply
2x NVME 1tb drives 900P
4x 3.5 inch hard drives
4x 2.5 inch SSDs
Having taken a look at what is available and talking with some folks, they recomend an AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and a ASUS B550-PLUS TUF Gaming AMD AM4 ATX Motherboard.
Does anyone else have any recommendations? I don't know if that's overkill or underkill. Or if I should wait for a generation or not.