Cupidly

Any reason you'd recommend a Ryzen even if I could get an i7 8700k? And yeah, I agree, holding onto the GPU for a year or so would be the idea if I decide to go down the new CPU route.

£600 to find the best part upgrade for my particular rig? I'm not looking to get a full build for the price of course.

Let's add then, I'm looking at about £600 to spend, what would you think? What would be best bang for my buck spending around that?

looking at like £150 for like a 5% improvement at best with that, that really is just too marginal

"lackluster" ouch dude That's my baby we're talking about

Actually liquid cooled already, pretty sure I just got a poorly binned CPU, cannot get anything stable over 4.8 for love nor money

Looking to move to the green team now also, done my time with AMD

TBH I am kind of looking to upgrade rather significantly, a 580 isn't that much of a step up.

To add, I won't be buying second hand stuff, want all sparkly new, plus the 2nd hand market in the UK is pretty trash, full of absolute jokers

Hey LTTforum, First post here, I need some help deciding on what is the most practical upgrade for me right now. Current Build: I7 2600K OC to 4.8 R9 390x 16gb DDR3 1600mhz My two options so far are upgrading mobo, cpu and RAM, looking at an I7 8700/8086k Or, getting a new GPU, RTX2070 or above. Now I know my CPU/ram will be bottleneck for an RTX card, and playing at 1080p, I was wondering how much a performance gain I would actually see, versus just upgrading to a new CPU. Has anyone else had a similar situation, or any good estimates as to performance gains for either option? EDIT: looking to spend around £600, new parts, don't want to mess around with 2nd hand, what would you recommend?