What Should I upgrade?

[ChaoticChaosx]

USD $580

Games, programs: Single player/multiplayer games (Cyberpunk 2077 soon enough) Streaming, rendering/encoding videos/clips.

My current build is in my signature. However this is for CPU and/or GPU. Worth getting anything upgraded now or wait for Ampere, rocket lake or make the AMD switch.

Also motherboard not included in this budget. I have $350 set aside for that.

 

[Fasauceome]

Honestly with an i7-7700K, you might as well put the whole budget to GPU first, you can stuff a pretty powerful graphics card in your system. Waiting for Ampere is a while, but since Cyberpunk and Ampere both arrive in September, you can justify waiting.

[Applefreak]

I agree with @Fasauceome, there is little benefit in upgrading your CPU if gaming is your primary use.

[ChaoticChaosx]

3 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Honestly with an i7-7700K, you might as well put the whole budget to GPU first, you can stuff a pretty powerful graphics card in your system. Waiting for Ampere is a while, but since Cyberpunk and Ampere both arrive in September, you can justify waiting.

Is there a GPU you could recommended around my $500 USD? Just incase ampere is quite a leap from turing.

 

3 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

I agree with @Fasauceome, there is little benefit in upgrading your CPU if gaming is your primary use.

When I do game, I stream. If that maters.

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, ChaosCGTV said:

Is there a GPU you could recommended around my $500 USD? Just incase ampere is quite a leap from turing.

 

2070 super is the best you'd get from that budget

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/tTCFf7/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-2070-super-8-gb-windforce-oc-3x-video-card-gv-n207swf3oc-8gd

1 minute ago, ChaosCGTV said:

When I do game, I stream. If that maters.

you can stream from the GPU using nvenc, make it easy on the CPU

[Applefreak]

Who knows if rocket lake won't be a refresh again, so not much benefit in upgrading then. Also it is called lake, which refers to the general architecture, which is filled with bugs and security holes. Best guess, Intel is redoing the entire core design to fix them but that takes a long time. Going AMD is an option if you do a lot of streaming without utilizing hardware encoders. First though I'd look into that before making the switch. Keeping that money for a new RTX card with 8 GB or more would be better in my opinion.

[ChaoticChaosx]

34 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

2070 super is the best you'd get from that budget

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/tTCFf7/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-2070-super-8-gb-windforce-oc-3x-video-card-gv-n207swf3oc-8gd

you can stream from the GPU using nvenc, make it easy on the CPU

Thanks.

That's what I use just last time I streamed had issues but fixed it now.

 

27 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

Who knows if rocket lake won't be a refresh again, so not much benefit in upgrading then. Also it is called lake, which refers to the general architecture, which is filled with bugs and security holes. Best guess, Intel is redoing the entire core design to fix them but that takes a long time. Going AMD is an option if you do a lot of streaming without utilizing hardware encoders. First though I'd look into that before making the switch. Keeping that money for a new RTX card with 8 GB or more would be better in my opinion.

I sure hope its not 14mn. I heard same time as comet next year for rocket lake. The only time they have a board that will support next gen cpu from intel. I hear and watch a few reviews that the 10900k is only 10% difference for certain applications against the amd 3900x. Which would be also be nice to have the 12 core/24 threads. Then Zen 3 could be quite different performance wise, then just kind of wasted my budget.

You talking about ampere or current RTX?

There is a 2070S XC ultra from EVGA (which is my go-to GPU brand) at my micro center open box for $520 seems nice.

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, ChaosCGTV said:

There is a 2070S XC ultra from EVGA (which is my go-to GPU brand) at my micro center open box for $520 seems nice.

the XC ultra is a pretty high end unit from EVGA, sounds like a good deal

 

1 minute ago, ChaosCGTV said:

The only time they have a board that will support next gen cpu from intel. I hear and watch a few reviews that the 10900k is only 10% difference for certain applications against the amd 3900x. Which would be also be nice to have the 12 core/24 threads. Then Zen 3 could be quite different then just kind of wasted my budget.

Zen 3 was promised to have at least a 15% IPC increase (which AMD promised and delivered for Zen 2) so they are poised to take the performance crown.

[ChaoticChaosx]

11 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

the XC ultra is a pretty high end unit from EVGA, sounds like a good deal

 

Zen 3 was promised to have at least a 15% IPC increase (which AMD promised and delivered for Zen 2) so they are poised to take the performance crown.

Yeah AMD has sure improved finally saw a 10700k compared with AMD chips and the 3700x in all test were right up against only single digit fps drop in games which no one will notice, I know I won't. So that's seems like the way to go. Also saving over $100 that way instead of saving like $20. I'll decide for sure if you don't any input towards one or the other that I couldn't find.