Recommendations for 2020 build

[LeeA]

Contemplating a few things about upgrading my existing build. Which parts to justify to price to performance increase in comparison to my current parts and when to actually upgrade depending on what new components are releasing in 2020. Also my reasoning with how more games will start making use of higher core/thread counts with the release of the new consoles. I’ve added both displays I use for gaming for reference to my performance desirables.

 

I was thinking of upgrading to Ryzen 3700x or i7 9700k but for the price to performance including the potential 2020 releases and price reductions that may come with those releases makes me think I should wait.

 

My current build:

 

i5 7600k 4.8GHz

Cooler Master 212 EVO

GTX1080 MSI Gaming X 2GHz
16GB Cosair Vengence LPX 2400MHz

Z170 Gigabyte K3 Gaming

500GB M.2
120GB SSD

1TB HDD

Acer Predator X34p 120hz 3440x1440

Samsung 7 Series 4K HDR 60hz

 

 

[boggy77]

3 minutes ago, LeeA said:

Contemplating a few things about upgrading my existing build. Which parts to justify to price to performance increase in comparison to my current parts and when to actually upgrade depending on what new components are releasing in 2020. Also my reasoning with how more games will start making use of higher core/thread counts with the release of the new consoles. I’ve added both displays I use for gaming for reference to my performance desirables.

 

My current build:

 

i5 7600k 4.8GHz

Cooler Master 212 EVO

GTX1080 MSI Gaming X 2GHz

Z170 Gigabyte K3 Gaming

500GB M.2
120GB SSD

1TB HDD

Acer Predator X34p 120hz 3440x1440

Samsung 7 Series 4K HDR 60hz

 

 

your build looks solid. you could probably upgrade to a 2080 super and your cpu would still hold for a while. but I'd wait for the nvidia 3000 series. do you have 16gb ram in dual channel?

[SavageNeo]

4 minutes ago, LeeA said:

Contemplating a few things about upgrading my existing build. Which parts to justify to price to performance increase in comparison to my current parts and when to actually upgrade depending on what new components are releasing in 2020. Also my reasoning with how more games will start making use of higher core/thread counts with the release of the new consoles. I’ve added both displays I use for gaming for reference to my performance desirables.

 

My current build:

 

i5 7600k 4.8GHz

Cooler Master 212 EVO

GTX1080 MSI Gaming X 2GHz

Z170 Gigabyte K3 Gaming

500GB M.2
120GB SSD

1TB HDD

Acer Predator X34p 120hz 3440x1440

Samsung 7 Series 4K HDR 60hz

 

 

Yoour build pretty good.

Your gtx 1080 is pretty much rtx 2060 super so its good enough for now.

 

Your processor has pretty good oc put only 4cores and threads. You could get r5 3600, new ram and mobo for 350-400 dollars. Put its not necessary roght now, mayby next year

[LeeA]

33 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

your build looks solid. you could probably upgrade to a 2080 super and your cpu would still hold for a while. but I'd wait for the nvidia 3000 series. do you have 16gb ram in dual channel?

Yeah I’ve got 16GB of ram I just forgot to add it to the post, I’ve added it now

[LeeA]

39 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

Yoour build pretty good.

Your gtx 1080 is pretty much rtx 2060 super so its good enough for now.

 

Your processor has pretty good oc put only 4cores and threads. You could get r5 3600, new ram and mobo for 350-400 dollars. Put its not necessary roght now, mayby next year

That’s the only thing that worry’s me about my current build is later in the year and onwards I feel 4c/4t isn’t going to hold up great with new titles even if I mange to OC to 5Ghz. As I feel my CPU is more in need of an upgrade than my GPU to keep up with this and next years titles.
 

My GPU I’ll most likely upgrade next year possibly this year depending on what gets released from nvidia and how much performance increase comes with them considering I’ve skipped a few generations.
 

I was looking at the 3700x or i7 9700k but I’m not sure what is going to be released this year CPU wise and when they will be released.

[boggy77]

4 minutes ago, LeeA said:

That’s the only thing that worry’s me about my current build is later in the year and onwards I feel 4c/4t isn’t going to hold up great with new titles even if I mange to OC to 5Ghz. As I feel my CPU is more in need of an upgrade than my GPU to keep up with this and next years titles.
 

My GPU I’ll most likely upgrade next year possibly this year depending on what gets released from nvidia and how much performance increase comes with them considering I’ve skipped a few generations.
 

I was looking at the 3700x or i7 9700k but I’m not sure what is going to be released this year CPU wise and when they will be released.

i'd wait for the ryzen 4000 series. with the 9700k, you still don't have hyperthreading. i expect the next 8c/16t from ryzen (likely the 4700x) to be comparable to the 9900k for half the price.