Old Rig potential upgrades help

[Shiaru]

Budget (including currency): £2000

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming looking forward to playing Cyberpunk 2077

Other details Hello, so heres the deal I brought this rig from pcspecialist back in 2012, its done me pretty well but, I have changed a few bits and pieces without much knowledge, my current build looks like this. So the question is what could I get with my current budget looking around the time frame of early November for the release day of Cyberpunk. Any help would be appreciated.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i7-3820 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler	NZXT Kraken X52 Rev 2 73.11 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard	Asus Sabertooth X79 ATX LGA2011 Motherboard
Memory	Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1866 CL10 Memory	$83.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$129.99 @ Adorama
Video Card	Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB Video Card
Case	NZXT Phantom ATX Full Tower Case
Power Supply	Corsair 1200 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$409.99 @ Walmart
Wireless Network Adapter	Asus PCE-AC68 PCIe x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter	$89.99 @ Amazon
Monitor	BenQ XL2420T 24.0" 1920x1080 120 Hz Monitor
Keyboard	Razer BlackWidow Elite RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard	$129.99 @ Amazon
Mouse	Razer Razer Naga 2014 Wired Laser Mouse	$265.27 @ Amazon
Headphones	Astro Gaming A50 + Base Station Headset	$239.99 @ Astro Gaming
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1349.21
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-15 14:46 EDT-0400

 

 

[Indus Monk]

to be honest. I'm kind of excited for the RTX 3070. I'd wait for that to materialize first, then i'd think about building a pc. But as a baseline, this one with a cheaper case will do you fine

[KingTdiGGiTTy]

Getting a Xeon E5-1660 v2 could be pretty neat. And it would leave you enough budget to get any graphics card you want.

[jaslion]

14 minutes ago, Shiaru said:

Budget (including currency): £2000

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming looking forward to playing Cyberpunk 2077

Other details Hello, so heres the deal I brought this rig from pcspecialist back in 2012, its done me pretty well but, I have changed a few bits and pieces without much knowledge, my current build looks like this. So the question is what could I get with my current budget looking around the time frame of early November for the release day of Cyberpunk. Any help would be appreciated.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i7-3820 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler	NZXT Kraken X52 Rev 2 73.11 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard	Asus Sabertooth X79 ATX LGA2011 Motherboard
Memory	Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1866 CL10 Memory	$83.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$129.99 @ Adorama
Video Card	Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB Video Card
Case	NZXT Phantom ATX Full Tower Case
Power Supply	Corsair 1200 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$409.99 @ Walmart
Wireless Network Adapter	Asus PCE-AC68 PCIe x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter	$89.99 @ Amazon
Monitor	BenQ XL2420T 24.0" 1920x1080 120 Hz Monitor
Keyboard	Razer BlackWidow Elite RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard	$129.99 @ Amazon
Mouse	Razer Razer Naga 2014 Wired Laser Mouse	$265.27 @ Amazon
Headphones	Astro Gaming A50 + Base Station Headset	$239.99 @ Astro Gaming
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1349.21
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-15 14:46 EDT-0400

 

 

Stick with the system till ryzen 4000 is out. Build a new one. Then sell it all. (not the monitor and that stuff of course).

 

It's more than done it's time and a full system upgrade would do you best. However in the meantime if you want some more graphics go and get yourself any new gpu you want and roll with it. Sure you won't get the maximum framerates but it will still easily give you 60fps+.

 

You could get a 6core overclockable cpu for the system sure. But that will still lag behind a ryzen 3600.

[KingTdiGGiTTy]

On 9/15/2020 at 2:03 PM, jaslion said:

Stick with the system till ryzen 4000 is out. Build a new one. Then sell it all.

I am planning on doing this too.

 

On 9/15/2020 at 2:03 PM, jaslion said:

But that will still lag behind a ryzen 3600

Oh, it'll lag behind more than that. from my findings; it'll be more or less equivalent to FIRST gen ryzen

[jaslion]

2 hours ago, KingTdiGGiTTy said:

I am planning on doing this too.

 

Oh, it'll lag behind more than that. from my findings; it'll be more or less equivalent to FIRST gen ryzen

A 3930k oc'd to 4ghz is the same as a 1600 a 3930k at 4.4ghz hovers around a 2600. Intel barely had any performance increases between cpu generations for ages so their single core performance of the old chips is not that far behind. That and they oc pretty well on average. Still ryzen 5000 (since they are skipping 4000 naming now) all the way.