Upgrading

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

So I'm looking to do an upgrade. My system was built about 4 years ago or so give or take, and I am looking for a bit more.

Current System:
4790K Stock Speeds
Evo 212 Cooler
4x 4GB Ripjaws DDR3
2x samsung SSD's in RAID 0
1080 FTW Edition

There's plenty of 6th gen and 7th gen intel systems local to me but I have a feeling that the only thing that is going to be a beneficial upgrade for me at this point is going to be a 9900K at least.

What are your guys' thoughts? What should I be looking for?

[Slottr]

What are you wanting out of an upgrade?

[.Apex.]

7 minutes ago, r-4 said:

What are your guys' thoughts? What should I be looking for?

only 1 week for Ryzen 3rd Gen to release, I'd recommend you wait for that, and 6th Gen and 7th Gen CPU's are insanely expensive, you could get a 9th Gen CPU new for the same price and even better performance, it's ridiculous

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

3 minutes ago, _Syn_ said:

only 1 week for Ryzen 3rd Gen to release, I'd recommend you wait for that, and 6th Gen and 7th Gen CPU's are insanely expensive, you could get a 9th Gen CPU new for the same price and even better performance, it's ridiculous

There's entire systems locally to me for like $800 bucks, which is a pretty decent deal. Also don't like AMD, never have.

7 minutes ago, Slottr said:

What are you wanting out of an upgrade?

Better performance gaming and some rendering. As far as I see it, unless I am going to an 8 core, 16 thread CPU or a massive bump in sheer clock speed, it's pretty pointless to bothedr looking to upgrade. So basically a 9900K

 

[Slottr]

Just now, r-4 said:

Better performance gaming and some rendering.

What kind of performance?

 

Also I agree with @_Syn_- but to add on, even if you can get a 6th or 7th gen chip for an okay price, they'll be easily beaten by one of these new ryzen chips (assuming benchmark leaks are true). Just wait for those.

[.Apex.]

Just now, r-4 said:

There's entire systems locally to me for like $800 bucks, which is a pretty decent deal.

That doesn't say much..

[dizmo]

Do you actually have a reason for not liking AMD, or are you being completely irrational?
I wasn't a fan of AMD, however I had reasons, and as they've matured, those reasons have disappeared.

You're not going to get the same performance with Intel as you are with AMD, unless you're willing to drop 2x the price. At that point...why? It's not a smart decision.

[VEXICUS]

1 hour ago, r-4 said:

So I'm looking to do an upgrade. My system was built about 4 years ago or so give or take, and I am looking for a bit more.

Current System:
4790K Stock Speeds
Evo 212 Cooler
4x 4GB Ripjaws DDR3
2x samsung SSD's in RAID 0
1080 FTW Edition

There's plenty of 6th gen and 7th gen intel systems local to me but I have a feeling that the only thing that is going to be a beneficial upgrade for me at this point is going to be a 9900K at least.

What are your guys' thoughts? What should I be looking for?

Firstly,  what's ur budget for the upgrade?

Secondly, where are you located at?

Thirdly, what will you be using this PC for?

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

1 hour ago, VEXICUS said:

Firstly,  what's ur budget for the upgrade?

Secondly, where are you located at?

Thirdly, what will you be using this PC for?

No real budget, no point in having budgets, just end up disappointed when you blow it
I'm in Red Deer, AB (not sure why it matters)
Gaming, rendering some videos, transcoding some downloaded media.

[celerystruct]

10 hours ago, Sn4tchBandicoot said:

No real budget, no point in having budgets, just end up disappointed when you blow it
I'm in Red Deer, AB (not sure why it matters)
Gaming, rendering some videos, transcoding some downloaded media.

No Budget? lol okay.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($629.99 @ Mike's Computer Shop) 
CPU Cooler: Asus - ROG RYUJIN 360 121.8 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($348.30 @ Mike's Computer Shop) 
Motherboard: MSI - MEG Z390 GODLIKE EATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($752.21 @ Amazon Canada) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z Royal 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($466.00 @ Newegg Canada) 
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx (2018) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($149.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Total: $2346.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-07-01 13:03 EDT-0400

 

Also location matters since some parts have different costs in different places and/or may not be available.

[Sn4tchBandicoot]

8 hours ago, celerystruct said:

No Budget? lol okay.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($629.99 @ Mike's Computer Shop) 
CPU Cooler: Asus - ROG RYUJIN 360 121.8 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($348.30 @ Mike's Computer Shop) 
Motherboard: MSI - MEG Z390 GODLIKE EATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($752.21 @ Amazon Canada) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z Royal 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($466.00 @ Newegg Canada) 
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx (2018) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($149.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Total: $2346.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-07-01 13:03 EDT-0400

 

Also location matters since some parts have different costs in different places and/or may not be available.

 

No budget doesn't mean be an idiot with parts pricing, that motherboard won't have any kind of other features that one under $250 wouldn't.

If you're ordering online as most do these days location is really pretty irrelevant.

[celerystruct]

3 hours ago, Sn4tchBandicoot said:

No budget doesn't mean be an idiot with parts pricing, that motherboard won't have any kind of other features that one under $250 wouldn't.

If you're ordering online as most do these days location is really pretty irrelevant.

Pretty sure no budget means NO budget. Unless the definition of the word budget has changed in the past 12 hours since I last made this post.

 

Also what do you care if the mobo isn't cost effective. You just said you have NO budget.

 

>Location is irrelevant

 

Sure cause import and shipping fees don't exist. So anyone can just order anything at the best price point from anywhere in the world for the price shown.