Help with major upgrades

[Aggerkas]

Hey everyone on LinusTechTips,

 

I'm looking to upgrade the current system that I'm running at home for games and general computing.

 

With all the black friday and cyber monday sales I realized that I am not confident enough to distinguish between good and bad deals and also to check for compatibility issues. So of course I've decided to come here for the best tips and help.

 

This is what my current gaming rig looks like:

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @4.00 GHz

CPU Cooler: Used to be Watercooled by Corsair H100i Hydro Series but pump malfunctioned Now have DEEPCool aircooler.

Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS VII HERO

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3

Storage: Samsung SSD 500Gb for OS and Seagate 2TB HDD

Video Card: ASUS 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Strix

Case: NZXT H440 Mid Tower

Power Supply: Corsair AX860i

Operating System: Windows 10 Home

Monitor: BenQ XL2420Z.

 

Before I go into some of the thoughts I've been having I think my first orders of business are a new CPU cooler and also monitor. Any recommendations? Now my main aim for the upgrade is to get the best performance for as long as I can. To give some background on the thoughts I've had so far. I want to upgrade the GPU to the RTX 2080ti. Now I'm aware that this card is considered something more for the enthusiasts and it may be a bit overkill for an at-home setup but my thought process is that if it delivers great performance today I won't have to think about upgrading any time soon. My main concern is that since my goal is to put such a beast in there will this be bottle necked at all by any of my other components or is there a much better way to improve my setup in general (eg. Should I consider prioritizing and upgrading multiple components such as Motherboard, CPU and Memory and buy a different card, or should I stick to the RTX card and look to keep my other components the same)? Another option is also to upgrade everything in there and stick to the RTX 2080ti but then I may just hesitate on making any upgrades for now and save my money. My budget lies between 1500-2000 British pounds (including monitor and CPU Cooler) with anything more being quite a stretch. Peripherals are not a concern.

 

I would really appreciate any recommendations and look forward to reading your comments.

 

[Eastman51]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	£189.17 @ Aria PC
CPU Cooler	Noctua - NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler	£79.99 @ CCL Computers
Motherboard	Asus - ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard	£122.99 @ Box Limited
Memory	Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory	£107.99 @ Aria PC
Storage	Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	£64.69 @ Aria PC
Storage	Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	£51.54 @ Aria PC
Video Card	Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB WINDFORCE Video Card	£479.99 @ Ebuyer
Case	NZXT - H500 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case	£69.59 @ Aria PC
Power Supply	EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	£105.46 @ Scan.co.uk
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£1271.41
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-27 16:10 GMT+0000

This is a fully new system. You can adjust it to fit your needs better, if you want to.

You could get a Ryzen 7 2700 or 2700x instead of the Ryzen 5 2600x (if you need more cores/threads). The Noctua NH-D15 SE-AM4 is a great cooler for Ryzen, and will have plenty of OC headroom.

 

The 2070 is roughly equivalent to a 1080, so you could get a 1080 instead if you can find a better deal. You could also get the 2080 or 2080 Ti if you'd prefer. With a R5 2600x or R7 the bottleneck shouldn't be bad and/or noticeable if there's much of one at all.

 

You could also get a larger SSD and/or HDD if you would prefer, but 500GB SSD and 2TB HDD is fairly standard these days, imo.

 

Edit: For a monitor, you could pretty easily handle 1440p at 144Hz.

[Cigano]

I would upgrade the other components and get something other than the 2080ti. Building a new pc around ddr3 and the haswell architecture seems like a bad move in my opinion. Yes a 4790k will bottleneck a 2080ti. The 4790k is a great CPU but the architecture is dated and games like battlefield will studder alolt with 4 core cpu's. I recently upgraded my 4690k and i'm really glad I did.