PC build advice

[Seneschal]

So basically I've been using this beast of an i7 930 for a decade now. I call it a beast 'cause it survived several hurricanes and outages. Paired with, of course.. a Sabertooth x58 board I had to get used off ebay cause my other one died, with 12GB DDR3-1600 ram and a GTX 1060 6GB, which is getting bottlenecked to fuck. Other details but not necessarily important. At some point, I aim to actually have money to upgrade, etc etc..

 

My passion is casual video editing but moreso just gaming and my budget is/will be *high*. I don't want any mid stuff, but I also don't want RGB garbage. I want a total upgrade - sure, but not only do I want to do better than my current hardware, I kinda want something at the top or close, ya feel me? I've seen a fps benchmark comparison of  first gen I7 and I think a 7770K, and I thought the difference over the years wasn't that great and I thought, gee.. intel CPUs are this expensive for this kind of a difference? Maybe I'm wrong there. I just went on pcpartpicker and just tossed in these (yes I have no case, psu, monitor, this is a future thing, just added super important stuff)

 

Are these a good place to start? I thought for over 300 dollars, I'd opt for the Ryzen, I thought since the 2080 got bad reviews I'd opt for the 2070 and since I never tried water cooling I'd opt for the.. Kraken? Also that motherboard was a quick google search pair for the CPU. Otherwise, stir me in the right direction?

 

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($309.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: NZXT - Kraken X62 Rev 2 98.17 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($167.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB WINDFORCE Video Card  ($499.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1207.95

 

[LukeSavenije]

wait a minute... x58? you got gold in hands

 

look for 1366 xeons, you'll be surprised how much you can get for little money

[Pasi123]

You could get a 6c/12t Xeon for really cheap and then overclock it to 4.2GHz or higher.

 

But if you have a lot of money to use, then the Ryzen 7 2700X is a pretty good upgrade.

[Seneschal]

Well now, I just learned something new. I thought those Xeons were.. something else entirely, okay now those are cheap. I mean they're not readily available but that's affordable.

 

Ye, to be fair if I have that money I might go the path of new parts and probably a Ryzen 7 2700X but that's a great idea to think about right now.

 

 

[LukeSavenije]

23 minutes ago, Seneschal said:

Well now, I just learned something new. I thought those Xeons were.. something else entirely, okay now those are cheap. I mean they're not readily available but that's affordable.

 

Ye, to be fair if I have that money I might go the path of new parts and probably a Ryzen 7 2700X but that's a great idea to think about right now.

 

 

i would wait, get one of those xeons and go for zen2 when it comes out