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Been liking this one lately https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvjNpVFUQA

As long as you know your laptop supports more ram and you have a slot open on your motherboard, I'd recommend the upgrade. 4GB of ram is barely enough to do anything anymore, another 4 would probably help a lot. edit: one reason for upgrading would be multitasking. 8gbs would make it so you can have multiple tasks running without your laptop freezing up or acting slow. (Although if it does, it s because of the CPU)

Ok, I can work with that. for cpu I’d recommend a Ryzen 7 3700x 16GBs of the cheapest 3600MHz RAM you can find for motherboard, I’d go for a Gigabyte X570 Gaming X or an Asus X570 TUF Drives is a little tricky in your situation, as fast M.2 NVME drives are not cheap. Look around for Sabrent Rockets (if they have those in your area) or Samsung 970 Pros (although these are expensive). The advantage of going with the X570 chipset is the ability to use PCIE Gen4 drives. Be on the lookout for good deals on these as pricing for them seems to be on par with the nicer Samsung drives.

What’s your total budget? And what country are you located in?

I’d highly recommend an RX 5700 XT for pretty much anything Or like @MeatFeastMan said, just wait a bit.

Try No Man's Sky. It’s a sci-fi survival with an actual story to it as well and it’s hugely open world (you can explore whole solar systems!). You can build bases, accumulate ships in your fleet, go on missions and other stuff. At launch, it was a huge letdown but now it’s really fun!

Not so much. If the company would allow you to build a better workstation for the price, this could shred pretty much every task you throw at it. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Xeon E5-2690 V3 2.6 GHz 12-Core Processor $464.33 @ Amazon CPU Cooler Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler $89.95 @ Amazon Motherboard Asus X99-WS/IPMI ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard $548.11 @ Amazon Memory Crucial 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory $163.99 @ Amazon Storage Sabrent Rocket 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $109.98 @ Amazon Video Card PNY Quadro K4200 4 GB Video Card $268.99 @ Amazon Case Corsair 275Q ATX Mid Tower Case $99.99 @ Best Buy Power Supply EVGA 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $93.88 @ OutletPC Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $1859.22 Mail-in rebates -$20.00 Total $1839.22 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-09-30 13:30 EDT-0400

It’s $45 over but this is the best I could put together. A decent wireless mouse at this price point is nonexistent, so I had to go wired. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor £112.38 @ Aria PC Motherboard MSI B450M BAZOOKA V2 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard £76.47 @ Ebuyer Memory Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory £71.14 @ More Computers Storage Crucial BX500 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive £18.78 @ Aria PC Storage Seagate BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £35.97 @ PC World Business Video Card Sapphire Radeon RX 590 8 GB PULSE Video Card £194.99 @ Technextday Case Deepcool MATREXX 30 MicroATX Mini Tower Case £30.46 @ Scan.co.uk Power Supply be quiet! System Power 9 400 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply £38.90 @ Aria PC Keyboard Redragon K552-N Wired Standard Keyboard £29.99 @ Amazon UK Mouse Corsair M65 PRO RGB FPS Wired Optical Mouse £34.90 @ Box Limited Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £643.98 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-09-30 17:13 BST+0100

If you go with AMD... PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor $499.99 @ Best Buy CPU Cooler Corsair H100x Liquid CPU Cooler $79.89 @ OutletPC Motherboard ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX AM4 Motherboard $149.99 @ Amazon Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $85.89 @ OutletPC Storage Crucial P1 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $66.89 @ OutletPC Video Card EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB Black Video Card $1039.99 @ Newegg Case Corsair SPEC-05 ATX Mid Tower Case $54.96 @ Newegg Power Supply Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply $74.99 @ Amazon Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $2112.59 Mail-in rebates -$60.00 Total $2052.59 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-09-26 14:03 EDT-0400

That’s true. Hadn’t thought about that. Thanks for bringing it up!

I’d go for the 3600 and upgrade your cooling if need be down the line. You always want to go for more performance than flashy looks with an AIO. Maybe you can pick up a Hyper 212 or something like that for cheap to cool the 3600.

Unless you want your system to blow up- that needs to be upgraded.

Yeah I guess this could be pretty good if you’re looking for raw frame rates.

Depends on who you ask...I’m definitely not the expert. I’ll call his lord and majesty of the power supplies, @LukeSavenije down from his abode on high. It’s not worth it if you can get a 3900x for the same price as a 9900k, or a 3700x for the price of a 9700k.

Don’t bother with the 9900k. It’s about the same price as the 3900X but at this point not worth it. (In my opinion, others may disagree) This would play every title you throw at it at ultra settings with fantastic frame rates. Do you need a monitor or peripherals included in the $2500 budget?

You can pull off a pretty ballin' rig for $2500. Made some changes for you, went for a black with hints of RGB aesthetic. The 3900X will give you some future proofing, that’s why I left it in. Beefier CPU cooler to match the theme of the build, faster ram, more ssd storage, different case (again to match theme, but you can change it to whatever) and a different power supply. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor $499.99 @ Best Buy CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler $84.53 @ Amazon Motherboard MSI MPG X570 GAMING PRO CARBON WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard $249.89 @ OutletPC Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $85.89 @ OutletPC Storage Sabrent Rocket 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $109.98 @ Amazon Video Card MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card $1199.89 @ Amazon Case Corsair Carbide Series 275R ATX Mid Tower Case $89.99 @ Best Buy Power Supply Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply $74.99 @ Amazon Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $2435.15 Mail-in rebates -$40.00 Total $2395.15 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-09-26 10:05 EDT-0400

I think it would keep up for a few years. If you did go team green, there are other variants of that same monitor that support G-sync as well as being cheaper.

not just out of work...

Nope. A full desktop experience built into a backpack. That way there isn’t cooling (and therefore throttling) issues that many powerful laptops have.