Upgrading from a 4690k

[Will5757]

Budget (including currency): 1000

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Wow, various other games at times

Other details: Current build is a I5 4690k, 16gb ram, strix 1080, Rm650 PSU and a hyper 212 evo.

Been having crashing issues recently, and after dialing back the OC a few times i'm now running at stock, and things are still slowly getting worse.  That being the case i'm looking to upgrade cpu\mem\mobo and the best I can come up with currently is 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i7-10700F 2.9 GHz 8-Core Processor	$350.06 @ Vuugo
Motherboard	MSI B460M-A PRO Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard	$104.99 @ Newegg Canada
Memory	GeIL TUF SUPER LUCE 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory	$82.99 @ Newegg Canada
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$538.04
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-31 19:56 EST-0500

I'm not opposed to spending more money, but with my baseline of wanting 8 cores for gaming, these seems the best bang for the buck.  Just posting here hoping if i've made any large mistakes or missed something someone would let me know.  I'm also in the market for a NVME drive to go with these parts, but i'm somewhat confused as to if Dramless are still trash or not.  It would just be for a boot drive\ whatever game i'm currently playing.  Originally i was going to go with a 9700 (Overclocking seems to be somewhat more meh these days, on my old I5-760 i could get something like a 30% OC, sub 10% just doesn't seem worth the bother), but now there seems to be a great deal on the 10700.  I'm perfectly happy going with older gen stuff as there really doesn't seem to be large gains in ipc these days (outside of ryzen, and at current prices AMD just doesn't seem a good bargain atm).

 

[JamesTheFolf]

11 minutes ago, Will5757 said:

Budget (including currency): 1000

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Wow, various other games at times

Other details: Current build is a I5 4690k, 16gb ram, strix 1080, Rm650 PSU and a hyper 212 evo.

Been having crashing issues recently, and after dialing back the OC a few times i'm now running at stock, and things are still slowly getting worse.  That being the case i'm looking to upgrade cpu\mem\mobo and the best I can come up with currently is 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i7-10700F 2.9 GHz 8-Core Processor	$350.06 @ Vuugo
Motherboard	MSI B460M-A PRO Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard	$104.99 @ Newegg Canada
Memory	GeIL TUF SUPER LUCE 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory	$82.99 @ Newegg Canada
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$538.04
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-31 19:56 EST-0500

I'm not opposed to spending more money, but with my baseline of wanting 8 cores for gaming, these seems the best bang for the buck.  Just posting here hoping if i've made any large mistakes or missed something someone would let me know.  I'm also in the market for a NVME drive to go with these parts, but i'm somewhat confused as to if Dramless are still trash or not.  It would just be for a boot drive\ whatever game i'm currently playing.  Originally i was going to go with a 9700 (Overclocking seems to be somewhat more meh these days, on my old I5-760 i could get something like a 30% OC, sub 10% just doesn't seem worth the bother), but now there seems to be a great deal on the 10700.  I'm perfectly happy going with older gen stuff as there really doesn't seem to be large gains in ipc these days (outside of ryzen, and at current prices AMD just doesn't seem a good bargain atm).

 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	$329.99 @ B&H
Motherboard	Asus PRIME B550M-K Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$109.99 @ Amazon
Memory	Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$86.99 @ B&H
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$64.98 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$591.95
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-31 20:15 EST-0500

 

I just picked these out real quick. Tbh I'd go with Ryzen cause its cheaper and has about the same performance. I also added a nvme ssd, you could get a gen4 one if you wanted to, but you probably don't need one.

[Will5757]

those are American prices, Ryzen isn't cheaper atm here in Canada.  Atm the cheapest ryzen 3700x is 437$ here, it just doesn't make sense to me to pay a 90$ premium

 

[JamesTheFolf]

12 minutes ago, Will5757 said:

those are American prices, Ryzen isn't cheaper atm here in Canada.  Atm the cheapest ryzen 3700x is 437$ here, it just doesn't make sense to me to pay a 90$ premium

 

Yeah that's fair then

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Will5757 said:

those are American prices, Ryzen isn't cheaper atm here in Canada.  Atm the cheapest ryzen 3700x is 437$ here, it just doesn't make sense to me to pay a 90$ premium

 

The 10700 is a faster chip anyways. Stick with the Intel setup.