Advice on RIG Upgrade.

[Radec]

So these are my current specs. My budget is around 2200 USD for an upgrade. With all the new parts im not really sure what I should go for. 

 

CPU: i7-7700

Mobo: Strix Asus Mobo Z270F

GPU: RTX 2060 S

RAM: 2400 32 GB HyperX

Drives: 1TB Samsung SSD 2 Black 1TB 

PSU: 750W Corsair

Cooler: Hyper 21 Cooler Master

Monitor: 1080p 144hz Zowie 

 

Im looking to be able to play games at 1440p at high refresh rates. So any recommendations would be great! 

 

[Bombastinator]

12 minutes ago, Radec said:

So these are my current specs. My budget is around 2200 USD for an upgrade. With all the new parts im not really sure what I should go for. 

 

CPU: i7-7700

Mobo: Strix Asus Mobo Z270F

GPU: RTX 2060 S

RAM: 2400 32 GB HyperX

Drives: 1TB Samsung SSD 2 Black 1TB 

PSU: 750W Corsair

Cooler: Hyper 21 Cooler Master

Monitor: 1080p 144hz Zowie 

 

Im looking to be able to play games at 1440p at high refresh rates. So any recommendations would be great! 

 

Well you got a 1080p monitor so 1440p is gonna be hard with that.  Your cpu is about on par with a 3300.  You could get away with nothing but upgrading your monitor before the end of the year.  After that it gets real iffy though. 

[Fasauceome]

$2200 is quite the budget, something like this would do the trick

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor
Motherboard	Asus PRIME X570-P ATX AM4 Motherboard	$148.99 @ B&H
Memory	Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	$51.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Silicon Power A60 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$92.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	Asus GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB STRIX GAMING Video Card	$550.00
Case	Lian Li LANCOOL II-X ATX Mid Tower Case	$86.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Antec NeoECO Gold ZEN 700 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply	$74.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1020.95
	Mail-in rebates	-$15.00
	Total	$1005.95
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-10 16:58 EST-0500

 

Feel free to upgrade to an RTX 3080 or RX 6800 XT and get a 2TB SSD since you have the budget for it. I left a lot of room so you could pick out a nice 1440p monitor.

 

[Radec]

21 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

$2200 is quite the budget, something like this would do the trick

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor
Motherboard	Asus PRIME X570-P ATX AM4 Motherboard	$148.99 @ B&H
Memory	Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	$51.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Silicon Power A60 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$92.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	Asus GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB STRIX GAMING Video Card	$550.00
Case	Lian Li LANCOOL II-X ATX Mid Tower Case	$86.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Antec NeoECO Gold ZEN 700 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply	$74.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1020.95
	Mail-in rebates	-$15.00
	Total	$1005.95
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-10 16:58 EST-0500

 

Feel free to upgrade to an RTX 3080 or RX 6800 XT and get a 2TB SSD since you have the budget for it. I left a lot of room so you could pick out a nice 1440p monitor.

 

oooh ill check the parts out I guess availability is always going to be the issue rn. 

 

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Radec said:

oooh ill check the parts out I guess availability is always going to be the issue rn. 

 

yes, and if the PC isn't something you desperately need at the moment, I recommend buying closer to the holiday. We might see some improved availability closer to 2021, especially with AMD's competition to nvidia becoming available.

[Radec]

31 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Well you got a 1080p monitor so 1440p is gonna be hard with that.  Your cpu is about on par with a 3300.  You could get away with nothing but upgrading your monitor before the end of the year.  After that it gets real iffy though. 

yeah I was thinking of 1440p over 4k because it might be a bit harder to run games at high refresh rates. But I guess with DLSS and such it might no to bad? Not sure if 2200 USD is enough for a whole 4k build. 

[Radec]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

yes, and if the PC isn't something you desperately need at the moment, I recommend buying closer to the holiday. We might see some improved availability closer to 2021, especially with AMD's competition to nvidia becoming available.

Yeah! Seems like waiting might be the smart choice. Since my rig does fine for the current 1080p gaming. 

[Bombastinator]

2 minutes ago, Radec said:

yeah I was thinking of 1440p over 4k because it might be a bit harder to run games at high refresh rates. But I guess with DLSS and such it might no to bad? Not sure if 2200 USD is enough for a whole 4k build. 

Dlss2 is supposed to work a lot better than DLSS1 which was arguably even more worthless than rtx.  I’ve heard it’s great, I’ve heard it’s great unless there are fast moving things onscreen in which case it is blurry (so worthless for gaming) either way a monitor upgrade would be required to even see it.  With @Fasauceome’s spec you could do4k straight with a big enough video card.

[LogicalDrm]

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