Future Upgrades

[Mr_Argon]

So this is my current build. It's a recent build, most of the parts are second hand. I was just wondering what some good upgrades might be in the future? I can't give an exact price range, but the cheaper the better, as long as it's worth doing it (e.g no point really in going to Ryzen 3 1st gen, not enough improvement for the cost). I was thinking maybe a 3rd gen Ryzen motherboard, maybe with a Ryzen 3 3rd gen, or even a Ryzen 5 2nd gen. I'd love to overclock. I was also thinking of upgrading my case. I'm not looking to upgrade my storage, it's fine for now.

Also note I will be getting a microphone of some sort soon

[Firewrath9]

Perhapos a 1st gen Ryzen 5 (1600?) w/ a decent X370/X470 (taichi, gaming 7, C6H), then perhaps Ryzen 5 3rd gen

OC the 1600 to ~4ghz

[Mr_Argon]

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

Perhapos a 1st gen Ryzen 5 (1600?) w/ a decent X370/X470 (taichi, gaming 7, C6H), then perhaps Ryzen 5 3rd gen

OC the 1600 to ~4ghz

Would an X370 motherboard support 3rd gen Ryzen?

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, Mr_Argon said:

Would an X370 motherboard support 3rd gen Ryzen?

with BIOS update yes

[jerubedo]

5 minutes ago, Mr_Argon said:

Would an X370 motherboard support 3rd gen Ryzen?

We're going to have to wait and see. There's a lot of confusion about this topic right now. MSI told Linus, and he reported it in his video, that they would not support 3rd gen on first gen boards (this was just yesterday), but then they told British Steve that they would (also yesterday). So there's some very conflicting info. But even if they do, I'd wait and see benchmarks for each chip on the 300 series boards first to make sure there's no throttling or anything wonky with RAM (British Steve said he'd do a report on that once he had the chips in hand). I also don't know why you wouldn't go with the new 570 boards if you don't have a board already. One of the big advantages is PCIe-4.0 and better RAM speeds.

[Mr_Argon]

2 minutes ago, jerubedo said:

We're going to have to wait and see. There's a lot of confusion about this topic right now. MSI told Linus, and he reported it in his video, that they would not support 3rd gen on first gen boards (this was just yesterday), but then they told British Steve that they would (also yesterday). So there's some very conflicting info. But even if they do, I'd wait and see benchmarks for each chip on the 300 series boards first to make sure there's no throttling or anything wonky with RAM (British Steve said he'd do a report on that once he had the chips in hand). I also don't know why you wouldn't go with the new 570 boards if you don't have a board already. One of the big advantages is PCIe-4.0 and better RAM speeds.

I'm going to assume that 570 boards will be expensive, also PCIe 4.0 isn't really needed yet. I'm not planning to have the latest hardware, just hardware that can run my games

[jerubedo]

6 minutes ago, Mr_Argon said:

I'm going to assume that 570 boards will be expensive, also PCIe 4.0 isn't really needed yet. I'm not planning to have the latest hardware, just hardware that can run my games

Pricing should be pretty similar to the X470 lineup, if current rumors prove true. That would mean in the ballpark of ~$150 for the more basic models.

[Firewrath9]

7 minutes ago, jerubedo said:

Pricing should be pretty similar to the X470 lineup, if current rumors prove true. That would mean in the ballpark of ~$150 for the more basic models.

~X470 + 50-100$, the Aorus Ultra is 300$ compared to the Gaming 7 which was 220$,

Aorus Elite is 200$, Aorus Pro is 250$

[jerubedo]

16 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

~X470 + 50-100$, the Aorus Ultra is 300$ compared to the Gaming 7 which was 220$,

Aorus Elite is 200$, Aorus Pro is 250$

Where are you getting those numbers from? The only numbers I can find are from Tom's where they are speculating, where most other articles aren't listing speculated numbers but are rather saying that pricing should be close to X470. Here's that Tom's article:

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-aorus-x570-ryzen_3000-motherboards,39504.html

 

"Below we have a few details from the specifications page of the boards, but pricing and availability details were not listed or shared directly from Gigabyte. In parenthesis, we have added the price brackets we heard these will be around when the do release, but are subject to change."

[trevb0t]

3rd Gen Ryzen will be the thing to wait for either way. It's going to be budget friendly, as they are, but still relatively expensive for a while compared to current Ryzen pricing I imagine.

Watch prices on the 2700 or a 9600K since you plan to OC. They are well priced, and I imagine we may see further drops as the launch happens.

Both pull nice numbers in modern gaming as overclockers. The 9600K pulling the better clocks and the better frames. It will be interesting to see what the low/mid range Zen2 will offer though.