Updating from 3770k and GTX 760: PLEASE ADVISE

[pixelrubbish]

Hey everyone, I am a multimedia professional looking to upgrade/build a decently beefy home workstation for After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop and to be honest... also D2. I am looking at the 3950x on x570 as the chipset/cpu, but I'm honestly not sure what to think about gpu's and their prices right now... With recent launches, rumors of new launches and black Friday around the corner, I'm quite frankly scared to buy anything for fear of it either dropping 30% in price or something 30% better coming out right after my return window. For perspective my current rig is an i7 3770k, gtx 760 4gb, and 32gb of ddr3, so... clearly I'm not keen to update every season. What are your thoughts?

 

Current case is antec 1100, I have a 4k display and one 1080p, will likely get a 2nd 4k when I can.

[i_build_nanosuits]

With your workload for a GPU i would defenetly look at the nvidia RTX series of cards because the tensor cores and RT cores are now used with Adobe products and i've read they can speed up the rendering of certain effects by a very good amount.

As for CPU, amd is the way to go right now they offer more cores for less money and they are just as fast.

 

NOW, is it a good time to buy a graphics card? not sure...nothing has been anounced yet but the RTX cards have been out for a while

but i don't think they will drop price anywhere near 30% until something better comes out which will for sure not happen before next year...

[Metallus97]

3950X will be multithread boss for consumer. Maybe wait for TR 3xxx?

GPU: The fastest NoVideo you can afford. whaaaats le budget?

[3 Lions]

Yeah you seem to be going about this right way by going with a Ryzen based system, as for GPU's maybe look into the RTX series. There is mention of a 2080Ti Super coming out Q1 2020, maybe wait for that. 

[Metallus97]

Just now, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

Yeah you seem to be going about this right way by going with a Ryzen based system, as for GPU's maybe look into the RTX series. There is mention of a 2080Ti Super coming out Q1 2020, maybe wait for that. 

But will that thing be like 1,5k? lol

[3 Lions]

Just now, Metallus97 said:

But will that thing be like 1,5k? lol

Not sure but lets be honest it's better to big than go home (with a workstation anyway)  

[Metallus97]

1 minute ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

Not sure but lets be honest it's better to big than go home (with a workstation anyway)  

yeeeeeh, but price/perf is also a point  

[pixelrubbish]

@i_build_nanosuits@Metallus97@LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo Thanks for the insight! As for budget, yeah, not necessarily looking/able to drop 1k on gpu right now, probably shopping in the $400-600 range tbh. Also, trying to make sense of the various options for x570 mobo's and the kinda ridiculous range of prices for those. What should I be looking for there? I know I will need many a drive installed, like a few nvme and many an hdd... up to 64bg of ram.

[Metallus97]

Just now, pixelrubbish said:

@i_build_nanosuits@Metallus97@LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo Thanks for the insight! As for budget, yeah, not necessarily looking/able to drop 1k on gpu right now, probably shopping in the $400-600 range tbh. Also, trying to make sense of the various options for x570 mobo's and the kinda ridiculous range of prices for those. What should I be looking for there? I know I will need many a drive installed, like a few nvme and many an hdd... up to 64bg of ram.

Okkk then def. go x570 but as long as you dont need to OC much one of tier B should be fine

make the rest of the desiccion of of wich connectors etc you need

[pixelrubbish]

3 hours ago, Metallus97 said:

Okkk then def. go x570 but as long as you dont need to OC much one of tier B should be fine

make the rest of the desiccion of of wich connectors etc you need

Many thanks! That list is exactly what I needed.