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Thanks all! It looks like the AM4 socket is definitely the way to go. Just need to make a decision on which CPU and which GPU. With the 3950X and the Radeon VII it's a little under £2,100, or with a 2080 Ti it would be closer to £2,700. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor (£698.87 @ CCL Computers) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 CHROMAX.BLACK 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler (£89.99 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: Asus PRIME X570-P ATX AM4 Motherboard (£153.99 @ AWD-IT) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£281.51 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Storage: Sabrent Rocket 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (£119.99 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: XFX Radeon VII 16 GB Video Card (£512.00 @ Amazon UK) Case: Fractal Design Define S ATX Mid Tower Case (£67.97 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: Corsair HX Platinum 850 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£147.37 @ More Computers) Total: £2071.69 That leaves two last questions, how likely is it that AMD will keep producing new CPUs for the AM4 socket for a while to come? And what's the best way of selling a secondhand PC? I could take most of the drives out and sell it as a working machine, take it apart, reuse the case and PSU and sell the rest as parts, or I could give it to my wife to game on...

Hi all, I'm looking to upgrade from my four year old machine. Current Spec: i7 5820K (OC @ 4.3GHz) MSI x99A SLI Krait Edition Motherboard Corsair H110i AIO Cooler 32Gb RAM (4 x 8GB DDR4-2666) MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6Gb Fractal Design Define R5 Corsair RMx 650W 80+ Gold 2x 1TB SSD 2x 3TB HDD 1x 6TB HDD LG 34 inch Ultrawide Monitor Usage: Mostly for Blender and Fusion 360 A bit of general creative stuff, After Effects, Premier, Photoshop, Illustrator Some coding Very occasional gaming (not AAA games and in 1080p/1440p) The options for the 2011-V3 socket are pretty minimal, it looks like the 6900K would be the only CPU upgrade I could do and they're about £600. Throw in a 2080 Ti and I've spent £1600 on a machine that has no future headroom. So the alternative is building a new machine but I'm not sure where to start. I'm also not sure if it's worth selling my existing machine as the second hand prices looked pretty terible and it's still a reasonable amateur 3D workstation. I'm thinking perhaps building a threadripper based machine might be the way to go, maybe start with one of the lower end ones now and then upgrade to a high end one in future when they're end of life? Any recommendations would be appreciated. I'm in the UK and I'd like to spend less than £3k.