PC Upgrade

[OfficialAviate]

Currently, I am using an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 paired with an RTX 2060 Super in my system. The problem is, however, when I play a video game and either stream or have a couple tabs of chrome in the background, I am experiencing large frame droppage and frequent crashes. In the future, I will be upgrading to a dual system for gaming and streaming. My streaming PC will be the same 2600 and 2060 Super, while the gaming rig will have an i7 9700KF (integrated graphics not needed) and an RTX 2080. I am planning to have 16 GB of memory in the gaming PC, but am not sure of how much memory I should have in the streaming system. I will only have StreamLabs OBS up and maybe some light Chrome browsing, but that's it. For now, I have marked it down as only 8 GB, but will that be enough?

 

Here is the added parts I will be buying in addition to the parts I have in my bio: 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i7-9700KF 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	$359.99 @ Best Buy
Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z390-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$173.99 @ Newegg
Memory	Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$34.99 @ Newegg
Storage	PNY CS900 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$59.99 @ Best Buy
Video Card	MSI GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card	$623.99 @ Best Buy
Case	Corsair 110Q ATX Mid Tower Case	$64.98 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Thermaltake Toughpower GOLD 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$98.52 @ Walmart
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1416.45
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-16 15:45 EDT-0400

The streaming PC will be going into the new case, while my gaming PC will be in my NZXT H500.

[Letgomyleghoe.]

the rtx 2070 super has literally the same performance as an rtx 2080 for $200 dollars less.

get a 2*8 memory kit

Is going intel really worth it for those 5-10 fps?

Also if your going intel are you gonna use the stock cooler because good luck.

[Shrekpad]

What are the specs of your current pc? What resolution and frame rate do you want?

[Letgomyleghoe.]

In my opinion I would just upgrade the first pc with a 3900x and a 2070 super and maybe upgrade your mobo if it's kinda bad.

The reason you might be also losing a lot of fps in you're old pc is the fact that you're running out of memory when opening chrome tabs and/or maybe your internet connection but I think that would cause stuttering.

[OfficialAviate]

7 minutes ago, Gundar said:

the rtx 2070 super has literally the same performance as an rtx 2080 for $200 dollars less.

get a 2*8 memory kit

Is going intel really worth it for those 5-10 fps?

Also if your going intel are you gonna use the stock cooler because good luck.

I am not going to use the stock cooler for my Intel chip. I will be using the AMD stock cooler on my streaming PC's chip, and transferring my Corsair H100X onto the Intel chip. I think the 2080 is worth it for me, as it seems to do much better in rendering according to benchmarks, and I would like to get into graphic design or something of the sort soon. I also think Intel is worth for those 5-10 frames in my opinion ... I have been having a decent to bad experience with AMD thus far. If you think so, I think I will try and find a good 2x8 GB kit of memory then.

[OfficialAviate]

5 minutes ago, Gundar said:

In my opinion I would just upgrade the first pc with a 3900x and a 2070 super and maybe upgrade your mobo if it's kinda bad.

The reason you might be also losing a lot of fps in you're old pc is the fact that you're running out of memory when opening chrome tabs and/or maybe your internet connection but I think that would cause stuttering.

I don't think so, however, because I would really like to upgrade to Intel. The MoBo is also pretty bad, so I might as well just leave it with the 2600.

[OfficialAviate]

12 minutes ago, Shrekpad said:

What are the specs of your current pc? What resolution and frame rate do you want?

If you click on my LTT Forum profile, it should show you the current specs of my rig.

[Jurrunio]

26 minutes ago, OfficialAviate said:

I will be upgrading to a dual system for gaming and streaming. My streaming PC will be the same 2600 and 2060 Super,

Pointless when built-in video encoders, especially on Nvidia Turing cards, are this good. Either you get a Threadripper 16 core and run x264 slow (if not very slow), or use NVENC already in the 2060S. (or whatever the gaming system has)

 

btw for the crashes, it could be Asrock's problem as they arent really known for the best of software

[Jurrunio]

@OfficialAviate btw did you try running lower memory frequencies?

[OfficialAviate]

4 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

@OfficialAviate btw did you try running lower memory frequencies?

I had overclocked my memory almost as soon as I built my PC by about 200 MHz ... could that be what is affecting it?

 

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, OfficialAviate said:

I had overclocked my memory almost as soon as I built my PC by about 200 MHz ... could that be what is affecting it?

 

Depends on what 200MHz brings it to, if you meant 2933 + 200MHz (as 2933 is the highest factory supported spec from AMD) or 3200MHz + 200MHz (even more OC) then that could be an unstable overclock, if it's 2133 + 200MHz  (2133 is what most 3000MHz+ kits run by default) then this shouldnt be the cause.

[OfficialAviate]

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Depends on what 200MHz brings it to, if you meant 2933 + 200MHz (as 2933 is the highest factory supported spec from AMD) or 3200MHz + 200MHz (even more OC) then that could be an unstable overclock, if it's 2133 + 200MHz  (2133 is what most 3000MHz+ kits run by default) then this shouldnt be the cause.

Yeah ... I think it was probably a bit unstable as I overclocked from 3200 MHz to 3400 MHz. I'm gonna get started on tuning that down ASAP for now. I think I'm still going to go ahead and save up for that upgrade in the future, as I think it would still benefit me and help take my stream to the next level.

[Jurrunio]

8 minutes ago, OfficialAviate said:

I think I'm still going to go ahead and save up for that upgrade in the future, as I think it would still benefit me and help take my stream to the next level.

If you even have to save up, that CPU choice is rather poor. Keep in mind that Intel is cutting compatibility again