Any Suggestions on Upgrades?

[nathanyule]

Budget (including currency): Upgrades

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly Gaming, want to mess around with Video Editing, Programming, and Photo Editing

Other details Might upgrade monitor to a 1080p 144hz screen, depends if I find a good deal .;P

Year Built: 2018

Upgrades: November/December 2020

 

SEE UPGRADES BELOW | All Feedback Would be Welcome

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$199.99 @ Best Buy
Motherboard	MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard	$99.99 @ Newegg
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	$52.99 @ Newegg
Storage	SanDisk SSD PLUS 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	Purchased For $0.00
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$0.00
Video Card	Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB AMP! Extreme Video Card
Case	Cooler Master MasterBox TD500 ATX Mid Tower Case	Purchased For $0.00
Power Supply	Antec Earthwatts Gold Pro 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$104.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$457.96
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-01 12:12 EDT-0400

 

2200g OC'd ~3.8 ghz >> 3600, 3700x, 4600, 9700k

I will probably get a 4600 after they release and when the hype settles down. If it is underwhelming, I will grab a 3000 series chip or get a 9700k when they go on sale. 

 

B450M pro-vdh >> B550 pro vdh, B450 pro vdh max

Rocking a micro atx in an atx enclosure. It fits, but I know it won't support a 3 slot gpu so I'm upgrading to an ATX. I will grab a b550 if the Nvidia gpus require PCIe gen 4 to run. If not, I don't need the extra features and will settle with the b450.

 

Team Force 4x2gb 3000 mhz >> whatever 2x8 3600mhz ram is on sale

This might be a controversial decision, and if someone wants to prove me wrong, I'm all ears in hearing your opinions (that goes with all the other parts). I don't want to fill all my slots in and want to get 3600 mhz of RAM. 8gb is not cutting it for me, especially with an APU setup. 

 

Not planning to buy anymore storage

I have a 480gb sata ssd and a 2tb hard drive, which is more than enough to satisfy my storage cravings. I don't need the extra speed from an nvme drive, or at least I don't think. 

 

Vega 8 Integrated Graphics >> 1070

A beast 3 slot card. Already bought it and is getting shipped right now. I'm not doing any gaming over 1080p so this is more than enough.

 

Not upgrading Case

The case fans and the case sucks when it comes to thermals. Easy to work in though, might try to do a mesh mod for the front panel. 

 

Corsair CXM 450 watt 2015 Bronze > Antec 750 watt gold, any other high quality PSU that is on sale

I have enough power for my CXM to run, but 450 watts seems a little close to me. Deciding to go with a 750 watt for future proofing purposes mostly. I'm going gold since the PC runs all night (giving power to Covid-19 research) and for ease of mind purposes. 

 

Case Fans >> Any budget fans.

More on this here: 

 

[Nathanpete]

11 minutes ago, nathanyule said:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$199.99 @ Best Buy
Motherboard	MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard	$99.99 @ Newegg
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	$52.99 @ Newegg
Storage	SanDisk SSD PLUS 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	Purchased For $0.00
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$0.00
Video Card	Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB AMP! Extreme Video Card
Case	Cooler Master MasterBox TD500 ATX Mid Tower Case	Purchased For $0.00
Power Supply	Antec Earthwatts Gold Pro 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$104.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$457.96
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-01 12:12 EDT-0400

 

2200g OC'd ~3.8 ghz >> 3600, 3700x, 4600, 9700k

I will probably get a 4600 after they release and when the hype settles down. If it is underwhelming, I will grab a 3000 series chip or get a 9700k when they go on sale. 

 

B450M pro-vdh >> B550 pro vdh, B450 pro vdh max

Rocking a micro atx in an atx enclosure. It fits, but I know it won't support a 3 slot gpu so I'm upgrading to an ATX. I will grab a b550 if the Nvidia gpus require PCIe gen 4 to run. If not, I don't need the extra features and will settle with the b450.

 

Team Force 4x2gb 3000 mhz >> whatever 2x8 3600mhz ram is on sale

This might be a controversial decision, and if someone wants to prove me wrong, I'm all ears in hearing your opinions (that goes with all the other parts). I don't want to fill all my slots in and want to get 3600 mhz of RAM. 8gb is not cutting it for me, especially with an APU setup. 

 

Not planning to buy anymore storage

I have a 480gb sata ssd and a 2tb hard drive, which is more than enough to satisfy my storage cravings. I don't need the extra speed from an nvme drive, or at least I don't think. 

 

Vega 8 Integrated Graphics >> 1070

A beast 3 slot card. Already bought it and is getting shipped right now. I'm not doing any gaming over 1080p so this is more than enough.

As pretty much everyone will say, don't buy a new CPU or GPU now. Just don't we literally just had the RTX 3000 announcement, and it looks amazing. Just wait till 3060, or Navi 2x come out, u will be glad u waited. 

 

Used GPUs are going down in price bc the value is just so trash, but the 1070 isn't going to good anymore tbh. 

[nathanyule]

7 minutes ago, Nathanpete said:

As pretty much everyone will say, don't buy a new CPU or GPU now. Just don't we literally just had the RTX 3000 announcement, and it looks amazing. Just wait till 3060, or Navi 2x come out, u will be glad u waited. 

 

Used GPUs are going down in price bc the value is just so trash, but the 1070 isn't going to good anymore tbh. 

I should have clarified this. I'm buying the parts in November/December.

 

The 1070 should hold me over for about a year since I'm doing mostly 1080p. When I want to transition to 1440p or the card can't run games at over 60 fps, then I would I would upgrade. I already got the GPU and might OC to get to 1070 ti levels of performance since it is a beefy card once I get better system cooling. 

[Nathanpete]

5 minutes ago, nathanyule said:

I should have clarified this. I'm buying the parts in November/December.

 

The 1070 should hold me over for about a year since I'm doing mostly 1080p. When I want to transition to 1440p or the card can't run games at over 60 fps, then I would I would upgrade. I already got the GPU. 

Well if u already have the GPU then ur list is OK I guess.