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Hi, i was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what I should first upgrade in my rig. Im not planning too for a while but am interested to see what people think I should add/change later down the line. Here is my PC (built it early this year).

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor £117.97 @ Laptops Direct
CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler £31.96 @ Laptops Direct
Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard £109.97 @ Amazon UK
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £74.15 @ Amazon UK
Storage Sabrent Rocket Q 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £109.99 @ Amazon UK
Video Card MSI GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB VENTUS XS OC Video Card £309.98 @ Box Limited
Case Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case £80.26 @ Ebuyer
Power Supply Corsair CX (2017) 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply £69.95
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £904.23
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-27 19:56 BST+0100  

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Maybe the cpu when ryzen 4000 arrives. Otherwise, everything else is good for atleast another year or two unless you need it.

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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other than @MartinKweh's recommendation, might add a fan or two (not that you need it), maybe upgrade the CPU cooler down the line along with the CPU upgrade

G502 Lightspeed Review

PC:

Spoiler

i5-6400

GIGABYTE GA-H110M-DS2

CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX 2X4 DDR4-2666MHz

ASUS ROG STRIX-GTX 1060-O6G

SEAGATE 2TB HDD

FUJISTU F300 240GB SSD

CORSAIR CX750M

Laptop:

Spoiler

Acer Nitro 5
i5 8300h
GTX 1050 4Gb
12 Gb RAM

128 Gb SSD

1 Tb HDD

Peripherals:

Spoiler

Keyboard:

Logitech G310 Atlas Dawn (Romer G)

Rexus Legionare MX5.1 (Content Browns)

Mice:

Logitech G602

Logitech G502 Lightspeed
Steelseries Rival 105

Logitech M330

Headset:

Logitech G430 
Cooler Master MH 752

 

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1 hour ago, Avocheeseado said:

Hi, i was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what I should first upgrade in my rig. Im not planning too for a while but am interested to see what people think I should add/change later down the line. Here is my PC (built it early this year).

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor £117.97 @ Laptops Direct
CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler £31.96 @ Laptops Direct
Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard £109.97 @ Amazon UK
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £74.15 @ Amazon UK
Storage Sabrent Rocket Q 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £109.99 @ Amazon UK
Video Card MSI GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB VENTUS XS OC Video Card £309.98 @ Box Limited
Case Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case £80.26 @ Ebuyer
Power Supply Corsair CX (2017) 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply £69.95
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £904.23
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-27 19:56 BST+0100  

thanks

1600af, it’s the same cpu, but cheaper, and slightly underclocked. If you oc , it’ll be the same

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