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Budget (including currency): around 800 CAD

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: General gaming and utility

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

I've curently got :

MSI Z97 PC Mate intel motherboard

Intel Core i5-4460 Haswell Quad-Core 3.2 GHz

Rosewill RG630-S12 – Green Series 630-Watt Active PFC Power Supply Unit

Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"

Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State

Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

Ballistix Sport XT 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

Enclosed in a NZXT Phantom 240 White Steel case

 

Upgraded my graphics card from a GTX960 to a Titan X maybe 2 years ago.

 

I'm looking into what I can upgrade without having to change the whole thing.

I kinda want to keep the graphics card because it did cost me more than 3/4 of what my original build did.

 

Open to suggestions. My though is maybe go into b450 amd motherboard and cpu. But I don't know.

 

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1 minute ago, Rokk said:

I would wait for the b550 boards, Zen cpus and the rtx 3000 series gpus to come out this fall before building since you will be able to get much better deals on everything.

 

edit: zen 3

Do you think the b550 boards are going to be comparable in price with the B450 ?

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Here's one that comes way under your budget, you can use the saved money for a much better GPU down the line, and also AMD has announced Ryzen 4000 compatibility for B450

 

What is your performance target?

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

Primary PC:

i7 8086k - EVGA Z370 Classified K - G.Skill Trident Z RGB - WD SN750 - Jedi Order Titan Xp - Hyper 212 Black (with RGB Riing flair) - EVGA G3 650W - dual booting Windows 11 and Fedora Linux - Black and green theme, Razer brainwashed me.

Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

PSU tier list

How many watts do I need?

PSU misconceptions, protections explainedgroup reg is bad

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33 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Here's one that comes way under your budget, you can use the saved money for a much better GPU down the line, and also AMD has announced Ryzen 4000 compatibility for B450

 

What is your performance target?

Don't necessarely have a target performance. 

All I know is that Warzone, last order, and a couple other games played with both GPU and CPU at 100% and I had trouble with warzone at 1080p.

You parts list looks interesting

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