Terribly out of the loop and looking to upgrade!

[wafflez]

Hello everyone! I’m terribly out of the loop when it comes to PC hardware. I have no idea what’s the “best” anymore let alone any idea of where to even start. The last PC I built was sometime back in 2015. I still consider it a power house and it honestly never lets me down. Then again, I don’t really use it much anymore, at least for gaming… 

 

Anyways, I was looking online because I was debating finally upgrading my PC or at least looking into it and I have no idea where to start so I was wondering if I could share my current specs and someone could help point me in the right direction for a build that would match my current one, but for today’s day and age, lol.   Its been so long… I have no idea where to even start anymore I was also surprised to learn that SLI isn’t really relevant anymore.

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

PC specs:

Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor

 

Corsair H100i Liquid CPU Cooler

 

Asus X99-DELUXE ATX Motherboard

 

Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB DDR4-2666 Memory

 

Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

 

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

 

Corsair RM 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

 

Dual GeForce® G TX™ 980 Ti graphics cards (2-way SLI)

[adarw]

 

11 minutes ago, wafflez said:

I don’t really use it much anymore, at least for gaming… 

then why do you want to upgrade? its still a beast of a computer.

[Mark Kaine]

the "best" is several options, you end up around ~$3000 at least... and i say several cause that mostly depends if you want to go AMD or Intel.

 

As for "upgrading" I don't think this makes sense, almost everything you have will be incompatible or outdated. 

 

 

Thing is, its still a good pc... but if you want something truly better (the best) you gonna need start from scratch, and that's during a time where next gen cpus are around the corner and gpus on an all time price hike...

 

Not impossible but it's going to be lots of $$$, and might be very well outdated within 1 year.

 

Basically this is like buying a ps4 6 months before ps5 comes out, ok for some people,  most will be like "why did no one tell me!!" however...

 

 

Something really basic, note I chose the cheapest Ampere GPU I saw, thats where you can easily add another 1000$ or so if you want something better...

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vYbBMv

 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor	$389.99 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler	be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler	$84.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard	$197.00 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$199.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$144.90 @ Amazon
Storage	Samsung 870 QVO 2 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$181.52 @ Amazon
Video Card	EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB XC GAMING Video Card	$733.99 @ Amazon
Case	Phanteks Eclipse P300A Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case	$59.99 @ Newegg
Power Supply	Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$110.97 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$2113.25
	Mail-in rebates	-$10.00
	Total	$2103.25
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-09-15 08:18 EDT-0400

[Somerandomtechyboi]

11 hours ago, wafflez said:

Hello everyone! I’m terribly out of the loop when it comes to PC hardware. I have no idea what’s the “best” anymore let alone any idea of where to even start. The last PC I built was sometime back in 2015. I still consider it a power house and it honestly never lets me down. Then again, I don’t really use it much anymore, at least for gaming… 

 

Anyways, I was looking online because I was debating finally upgrading my PC or at least looking into it and I have no idea where to start so I was wondering if I could share my current specs and someone could help point me in the right direction for a build that would match my current one, but for today’s day and age, lol.   Its been so long… I have no idea where to even start anymore I was also surprised to learn that SLI isn’t really relevant anymore.

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

PC specs:

Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor

 

Corsair H100i Liquid CPU Cooler

 

Asus X99-DELUXE ATX Motherboard

 

Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB DDR4-2666 Memory

 

Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

 

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

 

Corsair RM 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

 

Dual GeForce® G TX™ 980 Ti graphics cards (2-way SLI)

Already a good pc and should last for quite awhile

 

Just upgrade to a better aio and overclock the cpu

 

 

[Jonathan Lee]

I guess you could look into getting a better GPU, but I don't know how SLI's perform compared to the newer high end GPU's

[wafflez]

Thank you all for the responses! I was just curious as to what a comparable PC build would look like using today’s top parts.