I have the opportunity to upgrade my rig, should I?

[Agentnix]

Budget (including currency): Not an issue

Country: Croatia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Competitive games (Rocket league, shooters, etc), AAA Games on 2K resolution. Programming (for work, lot's of services that need to run locally + docker images and databases), OS Virtualization, Occasional video editing.

Other details

 

So my current setup is:

CPU: Intel i7 8700K

COOLER: CORSAIR iCUE H150i RGB PRO XT

GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 ULTRA

RAM: 2x Kingston Savage DDR4 16GB 2400MHz

MOBO: Asus Prime Z370-A

PSU: Coolermaster V650 80+ Gold

STORAGE: Kingston SA2000M81000G M.2 SATA 1TB

MONITOR: 155Hz 2K Monitor

 

Through some circumstances I got a new motherboard gifted to me by a friend. The mobo is ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero.

I am asking myself if I should upgrade my rig to take advantage of the new motherboard and pair the 3080 with a better/faster? processor, as well as take advantage of the extra cores and threads for my work. Or sell the motherboard.

 

I would have to buy a new processor. I was thinking 5950x, new RAM x2 16GB Trident Z Neo 3600MHz C16 and 750W power supply. I can afford to purchase these locally, even with the higher prices in the stores.

But I don't want to upgrade if it's not worth it. Additionally I would be able to reuse the 8700K, the mobo and the RAM to pair it with my old 1080 and get a second rig (I have an old case).

 

My question is basically: Will I notice any significant Improvement when compared to my current setup?

 

I use my machine for both gaming and work. I am a software engineer and do a lot of programming, virtualization and the occasional video project from time to time.

 

Any advice is welcome and if you have more questions, ask away.

 

EDIT: I forgot to mention that usually everything works smoothly. However, I do get the occasional slow down or stutter when I have lot's of dev apps open and services started. I also noticed that my CPU regularly hits 100% in titles such as Battlefield V on highest settings.

[tkitch]

If you can get a 5700 or higher AT RETAIL.  (A 5950 is probably dramatically overkill, it is for most people) go for it.

 

You can reuse your current stuff, and upgrade the RAM and PSU when you feel like it.

[Agentnix]

3 minutes ago, tkitch said:

If you can get a 5700 or higher AT RETAIL.  (A 5950 is probably dramatically overkill, it is for most people) go for it.

 

You can reuse your current stuff, and upgrade the RAM and PSU when you feel like it.

I am not aware of a Ryzen 5700 desktop CPU. Did you mean a 5800x?

 

[tkitch]

yeah, typo, 5800 or higher

[Eighjan]

13 minutes ago, Agentnix said:

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That motherboard you have can take as high as a i9-9900K (might need a newer BIOS), but if you're looking to go fully up to date, then an R9-5900X might be your best value option for getting the most out of that 3080.

 

All Ryzen 5xxx end with an X, but leaving the X off is just 'easier' (OK; lazier  ).

[brob]

I'd be tempted to go with a 5900X, the memory and an 850W psu.

[Agentnix]

8 minutes ago, Eighjan said:

That motherboard you have can take as high as a i9-9900K (might need a newer BIOS), but if you're looking to go fully up to date, then an R9-5900X might be your best value option for getting the most out of that 3080.

 

All Ryzen 5xxx end with an X, but leaving the X off is just 'easier' (OK; lazier  ).

5900x does sound like the best value for money between 5950x 5900x and 5800x.
Yeah, the x is for the general market, the ones without are for OEMs.

[Agentnix]

4 minutes ago, brob said:

I'd be tempted to go with a 5900X, the memory and an 850W psu.

Any reason why an 850W instead of a 750W?
From the calculations I have done and what I've researched, a 750W should have more than 100W of overhead.

[Eighjan]

3 minutes ago, Agentnix said:

5900x does sound like the best value for money between 5950x 5900x and 5800x.
Yeah, the x is for the general market, the ones without are for OEMs.

Until the 5xxx series, the X SKU's were slightly better binned for increased performance - 3600 & 3600X - all the 5xxx were designated X, so my take is they managed to get them all 'highly binned'; 5xxx never had non-X SKU's that I'm aware of.

3 minutes ago, Agentnix said:

Any reason why an 850W instead of a 750W?
From the calculations I have done and what I've researched, a 750W should have more than 100W of overhead.

A 5900X and 3080 combo. would be best served with as much overhead as possible; that said, a Platinum or Titanium 750 might be a good compromise.

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, Agentnix said:

Any reason why an 850W instead of a 750W?
From the calculations I have done and what I've researched, a 750W should have more than 100W of overhead.

New GPU's annoying power spikes. Wattage ratings of PSUs do take these into consideration, but the new GPUs have greater of it than older ones partly because of more aggressive turbo boost adjustments, partly because power draw values are higher than before (2080 has 215w TDP before custom designs that change it, 3080 has 320w)