Looking to upgrade system..

[Walesy]

Hi Everyone,

 

Im looking to upgrade my system to a new build altogether possibly, but was thinking of getting a graphics card right now, 2080 Super. But wondering if there would be a big bottleneck in my current set up. 

 

Current specs:

 

i7 4790k

Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER MoBo

MSi 980 4gb

Corsair 750w

Nzxt phantom white case

DDR3 16gb  1600mhz

1TB ssd

500gb ssd

256 ssd (Processor)

 

Looking to upgrade the processor, mobo, ram and Gpu is the coming months but just wondering if i did the GPU right now would there be a big bottleneck.

 

Was thinking of getting the 9900k with the 2080 super for the final overall build or would i be better waiting for new realeases? 

 

Thanks guys 

[Walesy]

Oh and forgot to mention i have two monitors, current main gaming monitor is 144hz 1080p and my second monitor is 144hz 1440p. Im looking to eventually switch to the 1440p monitor when the build is powerful enough

 

Thanks

[Streetguru]

Just now, Walesy said:

Oh and forgot to mention i have two monitors, current main gaming monitor is 144hz 1080p and my second monitor is 144hz 1440p. Im looking to eventually switch to the 1440p monitor when the build is powerful enough

 

Thanks

Anything above the like 2070/super is a pretty bad value

 

your CPU is mostly fine for 144hz gaming as long as it's overclocked to 4.5ghz or so, maybe upgrade to an 8 core whenever Ryzen 4000 is out just cuz.

 

Also an RX 5700 is probably the best buy for the money right now as far as GPUs go.
 

 

[Walesy]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

Anything above the like 2070/super is a pretty bad value

 

your CPU is mostly fine for 144hz gaming as long as it's overclocked to 4.5ghz or so, maybe upgrade to an 8 core whenever Ryzen 4000 is out just cuz.

 

Also an RX 5700 is probably the best buy for the money right now as far as GPUs go.
 

 

The cpu i have is still at stock 3.9ghz, never really messed around with the overclocking. And is the 5700 on par with the 2070 super then? 

[Walesy]

1 minute ago, Walesy said:

The cpu i have is still at stock 3.9ghz, never really messed around with the overclocking. And is the 5700 on par with the 2070 super then? 

Also was ther not driver problems with the 5700?

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, Walesy said:

The cpu i have is still at stock 3.9ghz, never really messed around with the overclocking. And is the 5700 on par with the 2070 super then? 

The 5700 is equal to like a 2060 super, the XT is less than 10% behind the 2070 super overall

However the 5700 starts at $300, while the 2070 starts at $400

 

there's also a few XT models for $350, coolers are average for that price naturally.

 

Driver bugs have been worked out, may also just be windows 10 issues, as windows 7 had no issues for me even with launch drivers.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/rkdrxr/asrock-radeon-rx-5700-xt-8-gb-challenger-d-oc-video-card-rx-5700-xt-challenger-d-8g-oc

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, Walesy said:

Also was ther not driver problems with the 5700?

 

[Walesy]

11 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

 

What do you recommend would be the best make to go for? Sapphire? 

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, Walesy said:

What do you recommend would be the best make to go for? Sapphire? 

Sapphire generally makes the best AMD cards, I'd probably just go for the 5700 XT Pulse at $400, since it's only $50 more than the better 5700 models.

 

Power Color is usually up there too in terms of quality.

 

Or if you just want a massive card the Taichi X is cheap right now, performance isn't going to change though, only noise really.
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/P6rYcf/asrock-radeon-rx-5700-xt-8-gb-taichi-x-oc-video-card-rx-5700-xt-taichi-x-8g-oc
 

 

[Walesy]

4 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Sapphire generally makes the best AMD cards, I'd probably just go for the 5700 XT Pulse at $400, since it's only $50 more than the better 5700 models.

 

Power Color is usually up there too in terms of quality.

 

Or if you just want a massive card the Taichi X is cheap right now, performance isn't going to change though, only noise really.
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/P6rYcf/asrock-radeon-rx-5700-xt-8-gb-taichi-x-oc-video-card-rx-5700-xt-taichi-x-8g-oc
 

 

So you don't think there will be a bottleneck with my cpu with the 5700xt?

 

[Streetguru]

5 hours ago, Walesy said:

So you don't think there will be a bottleneck with my cpu with the 5700xt?

 

The 8 threads are keeping it in the game, it shouldn't have any issue hitting 90-100+ fps in the average AAA game, aside from a few outliers that aren't optimized well
 

 

[Walesy]

13 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

The 8 threads are keeping it in the game, it shouldn't have any issue hitting 90-100+ fps in the average AAA game, aside from a few outliers that aren't optimized well
 

 

Brilliant, I'll have a look into this further, thanks alot for your help!