PC Upgrade Suggestions

[XavierVairo]

Hi everyone, I'm looking to upgrade my nearly 6 year old gaming system.  I'll give you my current specs, for reference. 

• i5-3570K OCed to 4.1GHz
• Asus P8Z77-V LK MBD
• Asus GTX 980 STRIX GBGDDR5
• 16GB (4X4GB) Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
• Corsair Air 540 Case
• Corsair RM 850W Power Supply
• Corsair H110i AIO Cooler
• Windows 10 Home 64 Bit
• Asus ROG Swift 1440p 144Hz Monitor
• 2 Asus 1080p monitors (not used for gaming)
• Kingston 120GB SSD as a boot drive
• 1 WD Black 7200 for game storage and a random 1TB Seagate HDD for all other storageI 

The main reason for this upgrade is that I have to play most of the big titles at medium to low at 1440p (Far Cry 5, Forza: Horizon 4, Battlefield 1, etc.) to get anywhere near my monitor's 144Hz with G-Sync on.  I've also noticed just general slow down of my PC (freshly restored Windows to Factory settings and formatted both HDD's) and a couple USB's on the back of the Motherboard seem to be dying.  I'd like to mainly upgrade the Motherboard, RAM, and CPU to the most current generation possible, with a GPU Upgrade later down the line.  I live in the United States for pricing.  Here is the system I have built on UserBenchmark:

• i5 9600K
• Asus PRIME Z390-A
• Asus RTX 2070 Overclocked
• 16GB (2x8) Corsair RGB PRO DDR4 3000MHz
• The Same Case
• The Same PSU
• Windows 10 64 Bit
• Same H110i AIO Cooler
• Same Monitors
• Same Kingston SSD for boot drive
• Same HDD's as before

The reason I'm asking for help is that while the i5 9600K specs look good, I'm not against going with AMD.  It seems like Ryzen (and Intel) have made the i5 a little pointless, but the i7 9700k is a little too pricey for me. I almost exclusively game on my PC, with some very light Photoshop use.  Should I just get the i5 9600K?  Should I bite the bullet and buy the i7 9700K?  Should I avoid Coffee Lake all together?  Should I wait for Ryzen Gen 3?  Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[Rex_G]

8 minutes ago, XavierVairo said:

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Ryzen is a good choice but if you want to stick to Intel, go with i5 8600K. The performance is almost same as 9600K and the extra cost is not worth it.

[HarryNyquist]

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-9600K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-2600X-vs-Intel-i5-8600K/3337vs3235vs3100

 

The only thing I'll say is that Intel is much much better with single-thread performance than AMD (as shown on the benchmark comparison there). If you're doing a lot of gaming I'd stick with Intel unless you want to upgrade to a Ryzen 7 2700X.

 

Also, I would recommend splurging and upgrading to Windows 10 Pro so you can configure away a lot of the problems (mostly) to your heart's content through gpedit instead of the registry.

[Dedayog]

I recommend 8700K plus AORUS Gaming 3 motherboard from Microcenter.  Great gaming setup.

 

https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntt=z370+auros