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My plan is to upgrade my I3-7100 to a I5-8400 and my 1050ti to a 2060ti and another 8gb of ram. Is there anything else i should consider over this? i dont have the funds right know but i think i will by the end of this year.

Not sure about you but I think my 7 year old CPU still rips

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by the end of this year, there will probably be cheap navi for GPUs, and who knows what 3rd gen ryzen will bring us (might cost less too) 

Rig 1: i7-9700k OC'd to 5.0ghz all core | EVGA XC RTX 2080Ti | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 4x8gb | ASUS PRIME Z370-P | Asetek 550LC 120mm | ADATA 480GB SSD & Toshiba P300 3TB | Cooler Master Masterbox MB500 | Win 10 Home | Logitech G910 Orion Spectrum, G502 Proteus Spectrum, G933 Artemis Spectrum Snow Wireless Limited Edition, Corsair MM300 Mouse Pad | 2 MSI Optix Curved 27" FHD Monitors 

 

(before i sold the WD drive and MSI gpu - https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/11946219 171 gaming. felt good.)

 

Rig 2: i7-7700k Stock clocks | MSI Armor GTX 1070 | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 2x8GB | MSI Z270 A-Pro | WD Green 240GB SSD & 2TB Seagate HDD | Thermaltake Core G21 Tempered Glass Edition | Win 10 Home | 2 HP Omen FHD 144hz 24.5" Monitors 

 

Rig 3: i7-6700 | GT 730 & GT 645 OEM | Some random DDR4 2133mhz 2x8gb sticks | OEM Dell Mobo | WD Black 2TB HDD & Toshiba 1TB HDD | Win 10 Home | 3 27" Dell FHD Monitors 

 

Rig 4: i7-4770 | EVGA SSC 1050ti | Some random DDR3 ram 2x2gb and 2x4gb sticks | OEM Dell Mobo | Stock Cooler | 1TB WD Black HDD | Win 7 Home 

 

RIP 

 

Rig 5 (dead and dismantled and sold) : i7-7820X OC'd to 4.8ghz all core | MSI DUKE 1080ti | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 4x8gb | Gigabyte X299 UD4 PRO | Asetek 240mm AIO | WD Green 240gb SSD | Other various components that I can't remember

 

Rig 6 (same fate as rig 5) : i7-8700k stock clocks | MSI DUKE 1080ti | ADATA DDR4 2400mhz 2x8gb | MSI Z370 A-Pro | Asetek 550LC 120mm | WD Green 240GB SSD & Toshiba 2TB HDD | Other various components that I can't Remember 

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13 minutes ago, LukeTheCoder05 said:

My plan is to upgrade my I3-7100 to a I5-8400 and my 1050ti to a 2060ti and another 8gb of ram. Is there anything else i should consider over this? i dont have the funds right know but i think i will by the end of this year.

 

11 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

2600/3xxx equivelent

 

you mean 2060?

 

you didn't forget you need a new mobo?

True, if you have a motherboard that supports Kaby Lake, you will have to upgrade it to go to Coffee Lake. (8th gen), since Intel released new chipsets for 8th gen that are not backwards compatible.

 

So in that case, might as well go Ryzen if you are looking for good value. Ryzen 2600 or likely 3000 series would be a good choice by the end of the year.

 

In terms of GPU.. 1050Ti is a reasonably good GPU for 1080P, 60fps. I would only upgrade if you are planning to game at 1440P or higher, or if you are trying to get more than 60 fps of a high refresh rate monitor. 2060 would be a massive upgrade, since that is equivalent to a 1070Ti.

 

Honestly, RTX 2060 (2060 Ti does not exist (yet)?) is a pretty decent GPU for the money. Really the only GPU I would recommend in the upper-mid range at the moment. All the other Nvidia GPU's are kind of trash value. Vega 56 or 64 is not a bad buy either these days if you have $400-$500 to spend on a GPU.

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