Need Some Advice!

[Snozberriez]

So, a few years ago I made the mistake of buying my first PC as a prebuilt. This prebuilt came with an i7-7700K and GTX 1080. I want to game reliably at 1440p, 144Hz. I have a budget of $3,000 CAD. The motherboard in there now has no expand-ability and limits my RAM speed quite a bit (ASRock H110m-ds/hyper). I would also like to put in bluetooth/NVME drive etc.

 

I am thinking a motherboard/PSU replacement is best until the new Nvidia cards come out later this year. OR I can sell my current PC to my brother for 1k and do a new build right now. With a new build, I could use my current SSDs(1TB/256GB) and RAM (16GB 3000MHz).

 

What do y'all suggest? Any recommendations welcome!

[You_found_dom]

1 hour ago, Snozberriez said:

So, a few years ago I made the mistake of buying my first PC as a prebuilt. This prebuilt came with an i7-7700K and GTX 1080. I want to game reliably at 1440p, 144Hz. I have a budget of $3,000 CAD. The motherboard in there now has no expand-ability and limits my RAM speed quite a bit (ASRock H110m-ds/hyper). I would also like to put in bluetooth/NVME drive etc.

 

I am thinking a motherboard/PSU replacement is best until the new Nvidia cards come out later this year. OR I can sell my current PC to my brother for 1k and do a new build right now. With a new build, I could use my current SSDs(1TB/256GB) and RAM (16GB 3000MHz).

 

What do y'all suggest? Any recommendations welcome!

Sell it and do a new build, this time go for the am4 platform 

[You_found_dom]

This build is less money than the build you sold to your brother, but it’s better

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	$294.14 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard	$114.99 @ Best Buy
Video Card	MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB MECH OC Video Card	$359.99 @ Newegg
Case	Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case	$57.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$99.99 @ Best Buy
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$947.09
	Mail-in rebates	-$20.00
	Total	$927.09
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-30 16:23 EDT-0400

 

If you need ray tracing right now, and can’t wait, then you’ll spend 150 more for a 2070 super. Apparently Navi GPUs could have Ray tracing by December if you install the right drivers. There was an article on it but I don’t have it right now.

[Guest]

Wait for the B550 motherboards in June and then look at doing an upgrade, or full build then.

[Snozberriez]

Thanks for the replies! I am a gamer primarily, and have heard you get better frame rates out of intel... If the new I7-10700K pushes the prices of the 3700X down then I may go AMD. Otherwise I might go with the new i7 as it is essentially a cheaper i9-9900K. MSRP may vary i suppose. My hesitation with going for a new build is the insane prices on graphics cards in Canada. I can't get a 2080ti below 1700 dollars, and people are saying it's not worth the upgrade right now from a 1080. At least until the 3k Nvidia cards come out I can stay with my 1080 and just replace the CPU/MOBO. 

[You_found_dom]

39 minutes ago, Snozberriez said:

i7 as it is essentially a cheaper i9-9900K

So is Ryzen 7. A 3700x has the same core/thread count of a 9900k. The cores aren’t as good, but still same core/thread count