Planning to go from 1080 to 1440

[SHiFT]

Budget (including currency): No hard budget, money is not a concern for it 

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming at 1440P Ultra is the main priority with high FPS

 

Hey!

 

I currently have a 1080P rig. I am trying to move with the times and go to 1440P after around 5 years of gaming on this.

 

I have been out of the hardware game a bit, but I did see some leaks of new AMD / NVIDIA GPUs, and also there is now a 10th Gen Intel CPU but Ryzen seems pretty good too.

 

I have no strict budget - I am thinking about building / getting something built that will destroy and chew through everything at Ultra on 1440P for the next 3 years minimum!

 

Help me out!

 

[Quickstrike]

What titles do you play? AAA? or older games?
I use an RTX 2070 Super powered by a Ryzen 3700X in 2K and, depending on the game and setting, I don't always reach the 60 FPs sweet spot. 

 

I would recommend an RTX 2080 TI or even better, wait a little for RTX 3000 and big Navi.

[SHiFT]

1 minute ago, Quickstrike said:

What titles do you play? AAA? or older games?
I use an RTX 2070 Super powered by a Ryzen 3700X in 2K and, depending on the game and setting, I don't always reach the 60 FPs sweet spot. 

 

I would recommend an RTX 2080 TI or even better, wait a little for RTX 3000 and big Navi.

Well, it mainly would be AAA yes - the heavy hitters.

 

I did see to wait for those. Maybe the 3000 series will offer better performance at the same price as the 2000 series ones are at now.

 

You don't always hit 60FPS at 1440P with that GPU? That sounds strange.

[Quickstrike]

1 minute ago, SHiFT said:

Well, it mainly would be AAA yes - the heavy hitters.

 

I did see to wait for those. Maybe the 3000 series will offer better performance at the same price as the 2000 series ones are at now.

 

You don't always hit 60FPS at 1440P with that GPU? That sounds strange.

3700X, 32 gig of ram, everything benches within expected parameters.

It's fine most of the time and my screen is 60 Hz (4K but I game in 2K) and it usually happens in less optimized games using Unity
like Kerball Space Program (with big constructs), the Outter worlds (some slowdowns around 50 FPS i'm on ultra setting however), Warhammer and Three kingdoms run fine in 2K. I get dips during loading in Minecraft (max chunk renders).
I don't play modern shooters. 

[SHiFT]

5 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

3700X, 32 gig of ram, everything benches within expected parameters.

It's fine most of the time and my screen is 60 Hz (4K but I game in 2K) and it usually happens in less optimized games using Unity
like Kerball Space Program (with big constructs), the Outter worlds (some slowdowns around 50 FPS i'm on ultra setting however), Warhammer and Three kingdoms run fine in 2K. I get dips during loading in Minecraft (max chunk renders).
I don't play modern shooters. 

In regards to CPUs for gaming, is it AMD or INTEL on top at the moment?

[zeusthemoose]

3 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

3700X, 32 gig of ram, everything benches within expected parameters.

It's fine most of the time and my screen is 60 Hz (4K but I game in 2K) and it usually happens in less optimized games using Unity
like Kerball Space Program (with big constructs), the Outter worlds (some slowdowns around 50 FPS i'm on ultra setting however), Warhammer and Three kingdoms run fine in 2K. I get dips during loading in Minecraft (max chunk renders).
I don't play modern shooters. 

Those FPS sound kind of low to me. I dont play those games, but on other AAA games, I get 70-80s on ultra 1440p with a 1070 and 8700k.

 

20 minutes ago, SHiFT said:

I have been out of the hardware game a bit, but I did see some leaks of new AMD / NVIDIA GPUs, and also there is now a 10th Gen Intel CPU but Ryzen seems pretty good too.

Right now, Ryzen is destroying Intel. You will get a few extra fps with intel but at a much higher price. If I were you, I would wait until the new gpus from nvidia come out and the new cpus and gpus come out from AMD. All should be out in a few months.

[SHiFT]

2 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

Those FPS sound kind of low to me. I dont play those games, but on other AAA games, I get 70-80s on ultra 1440p with a 1070 and 8700k.

 

Right now, Ryzen is destroying Intel. You will get a few extra fps with intel but at a much higher price. If I were you, I would wait until the new gpus from nvidia come out and the new cpus and gpus come out from AMD. All should be out in a few months.

Hmm, so let's wait until that and upgrade end of year?

 

I am however going with a company, as I do not have the time / patience needed to build a PC anymore!

[Quickstrike]

1 minute ago, SHiFT said:

In regards to CPUs for gaming, is it AMD or INTEL on top at the moment?

3700X is AMD Ryzen.
It boost at 4.2 Ghz consistently

[zeusthemoose]

Just now, SHiFT said:

Hmm, so let's wait until that and upgrade end of year?

 

I am however going with a company, as I do not have the time / patience needed to build a PC anymore!

I would wait. I would really recommend building your own. You can get better quality parts for the same price (or often cheaper) and it doesnt take too long to build one.

[SHiFT]

9 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

I would wait. I would really recommend building your own. You can get better quality parts for the same price (or often cheaper) and it doesnt take too long to build one.

OK - I'll hold on a while then to see how this all plays out!

[Quickstrike]

41 minutes ago, SHiFT said:

Hmm, so let's wait until that and upgrade end of year?

 

I am however going with a company, as I do not have the time / patience needed to build a PC anymore!

What SI are you considering? Mainstream like Dell or HP or more nice like NZXT or Pugget?

[SHiFT]

45 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

What SI are you considering? Mainstream like Dell or HP or more nice like NZXT or Pugget?

I used Overclockers 5 years ago for my last build. It was perfect and nothing ever broke - I would go with them again. They are very highly rated in the UK!

[SHiFT]

I am still open to suggestions / points to consider from the rest of the community!