Major upgrades planned

[tgrachan]

Budget (including currency): $1,000 - $1,500

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Photo and Video Editing, flight simulators, light other gaming

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 have been looking at GPU upgrades for a little while now and have been debating on reworking the bulk of my main computer. Below is my current setup.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$250.39 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	CRYORIG H7 Quad Lumi 49 CFM CPU Cooler
Motherboard	ASRock X370 Killer SLI ATX AM4 Motherboard	$219.99 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Flare X 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 CL16 Memory	$148.39 @ MemoryC
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$49.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$49.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Samsung 950 PRO 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
Storage	Western Digital Blue 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive	$87.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	Asus GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB Dual Series Video Card
Case	Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case	$98.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$139.99 @ Amazon
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit	$108.78 @ Other World Computing
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1154.49
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-10 15:02 EDT-0400

 

I am planning to swap to the RTX2070S GPU but I'm thinking that while I'm upgrading, it might also be worth it to swap out the CPU for a newer Ryzen 5 3600X or possibly a Ryzen 7 3700X. If I'm going to do that then I might as well upgrade the motherboard to have a little more of the "nice to have" features as well. I have been looking at the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite but I'm not completely sold on it. 

 

My main questions would be

1.) Is it even worth upgrading the CPU if I'm mainly only seeing bottlenecks on the GPU right now?

2.) If I upgrade the CPU, am I on the right track that I might as well swap out the motherboard while I'm doing everything else?

3.) Is there anything else that would make a bigger difference to my overall performance that I'm not considering?

 

Thanks for looking and any help you're able to provide.

 

[gloop]

Wait for Zen3 and nVidia Ampere.

[dizmo]

I wouldn't buy a 2070S, wait for the next line of Nvidia GPUs. You'll be glad you did.

[You_found_dom]

Overclock your ram its awfully slow for Ryzen 

[tgrachan]

Thanks. I'd heard that the next gen was coming soon but I wasn't sure whether it would be worth it or not. I guess I could always pick up a 2070S after the next gen is released for a considerable discount.

 

I hadn't tried overclocking the RAM yet but I might look into that. The only place I've notice any major bottleneck so far is the GPU but it might be worth looking into for certain applications.

[tgrachan]

6 hours ago, gloop said:

Wait for Zen3 and nVidia Ampere.

 

5 hours ago, dizmo said:

I wouldn't buy a 2070S, wait for the next line of Nvidia GPUs. You'll be glad you did.

Thanks. I'd heard that the next gen was coming soon but I wasn't sure whether it would be worth it or not. I guess I could always pick up a 2070S after the next gen is released for a considerable discount.

5 hours ago, YT_DomDaBomb20 said:

Overclock your ram its awfully slow for Ryzen 

I hadn't tried overclocking the RAM yet but I might look into that. The only place I've notice any major bottleneck so far is the GPU but it might be worth looking into for certain applications

 

 

[dizmo]

1 hour ago, tgrachan said:

Thanks. I'd heard that the next gen was coming soon but I wasn't sure whether it would be worth it or not. I guess I could always pick up a 2070S after the next gen is released for a considerable discount.

It's always worth it, otherwise they wouldn't release it

You won't see them at considerable discounts. They stop making them long before they release the new ones, so they'll be out of stock before they need to discount them.

[tgrachan]

8 hours ago, dizmo said:

It's always worth it, otherwise they wouldn't release it

You won't see them at considerable discounts. They stop making them long before they release the new ones, so they'll be out of stock before they need to discount them.

You've got a point there. Well I guess I have waited this long to upgrade the GPU so what's another month or so.

 

Any thoughts on whether or not it would be worth it to upgrade the CPU while I'm at it? In what I typically do, I haven't noticed the CPU being the bottleneck but if I'm planning on swapping to the new graphics card that may no longer be the case.

[dizmo]

1 hour ago, tgrachan said:

You've got a point there. Well I guess I have waited this long to upgrade the GPU so what's another month or so.

 

Any thoughts on whether or not it would be worth it to upgrade the CPU while I'm at it? In what I typically do, I haven't noticed the CPU being the bottleneck but if I'm planning on swapping to the new graphics card that may no longer be the case.

I wouldn't bother. Honestly with your platform you might as well just wait for AM5 at this point, if you're not seeing any performance losses that bother you. You'd need a new motherboard to get the latest processor, and you'd be upgrading to a dead platform.