Upgrade advice

[MaZah]

Hey guys, so i'm running a bit of an ancient setup that's starting to show its age and I'm looking for upgrade advice.

 

Currently I have:

FX 8350 

2x Radeon 7850 HD

8gb corsair vengeance memory

asus m5a99x r2

240gb ssd + 1tb hdd

thermaltake 750 watt psu

 

I have the option of buying a 1080ti locally for around $750 (CAD) is this worth picking up right now or is it worth waiting to see if prices drop more in the new year?

I'm definitely going to upgrade ram to either 12 or 16gb. 

CPU & motherboard upgrade is inevitable as well, however I haven't yet decided on which direction I would like to go with that and would love any suggestions that would help avoid bottle necking the 1080ti.

Ill probably just keep the same storage though I may upgrade to nvme in the future.

I'm assuming my 750W psu will be able to handle a single 1080ti and whatever processor I throw at it.

 

As far as the workload: mostly just gaming and media consumption. I do software development professionally so being able to run multiple "server" instances at a time may come up though i imagine this is mostly ram intensive.

The main title i play competitively is CS:GO, however I want to start getting into PUBG and other more intensive games.

 

If i spend 750 on the 1080ti, I would like to keep the cpu + mobo cost under/around 400. Is that at all realistic? I haven't kept up with hardware much since I built my system 5+ years ago so any and all advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[brob]

CA$750 is a decent price for a new GTX 1080 Ti, presuming a good brand. The price is not likely going to drop much more as inventory is limited. But one never knows with tech.

 

CA$400 is not sufficient for a decent motherboard, cpu, and DDR4 memory kit. 

 

[MaZah]

20 minutes ago, brob said:

CA$750 is a decent price for a new GTX 1080 Ti, presuming a good brand. The price is not likely going to drop much more as inventory is limited. But one never knows with tech.

 

CA$400 is not sufficient for a decent motherboard, cpu, and DDR4 memory kit. 

 

I've been doing some chatting in the discord and it looks like I can get a 2600 + gigabyte Aorus x470 for about 400, then It will cost me around another 150ish for the memory.

 

Alternatively i found a used rig locally for $650 cad that has:

2600

gigabyte aorus x470

aio cooler

8gb dd4 (slow @ 2660)

zotac gtx 1060

and some drives and a 500w PSU and case

 

I'm considering picking this up, then trying to dump the 1060 for around $200. What's your opinion on that? is buying used too much of a liability? is the 2600 good enough for a 1080ti?

 

PS. the 1080ti is gigabyte

 

 

[brob]

I don't have any experience with used parts, so I can't offer any comments in that area.

 

Gigabyte generally build decent gpu.

[ThePD]

Yes you can keep the mobo/cpu below 400. You can pair some really nice X470 boards with high end Ryzen 2 cpus for less than 400 depending on the deal. Although, I would advise to wait until CES as we dont know what the status of ryzen 3000 will be.

[brob]

4 hours ago, ThePD said:

Yes you can keep the mobo/cpu below 400. You can pair some really nice X470 boards with high end Ryzen 2 cpus for less than 400 depending on the deal. Although, I would advise to wait until CES as we dont know what the status of ryzen 3000 will be.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($227.43 @ Amazon Canada) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($159.99 @ Canada Computers) 
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($129.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Total: $517.41
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