Upgrade Questions - Using Older Components, Recommendations, and etc

[dece870717]

Budget (including currency): $1,000-1200ish USD

 

Country: USA

 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: DVDFab 12 for ripping and re-encoding my 4K and regular blu-rays. Games like Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Fallout 3, and the like.

 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Current System:

 

CPU

Intel i7-980

 

Motherboard

GIGABYTE G1 Gaming G1.Assassin LGA 1366

 

RAM

G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

 

GPU

ASUS GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC

 

Case

Lian Li Lancook First Knight Series PC-K9B ATX Mid Tower

Storage

 

OCZ Vertex 3 Series - Max IOPS 120GB Sata III (System drive)

 

OCZ RevoDrive 3 series PCI-E 240GB PCI-Express 2.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) RVD3-FHPX4-240G (Installed Games drive)

 

Couple misc 7.2K RPM data drives

 

PSU

Seasonic X Series X650 Gold (SS-650KM Active)

 

Display(s)

TCL 75Q825

 

Sound

Creative Sound Blaster ZxR PCIe

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No peripherals needed. Want to upgrade to a 1440p 60fps gaming rig. Want to save money by reusing case, hardrives, and power supply.

 

Not sure what would be under or overkill, perhaps a i5-12600K, have no clue what motherboard I'd want, gpu wise I'm thinking 3070 ti? 16GB or maybe 32GB ddr4 ram? Oh and an nvme ssd as my System and game install drive. 

 

Frankly, after learning over the past couple months about current gen tech from Linus's channel, I've really just been speechlessly blown away, my current rig l bought and built back in 2012, still use it without much issue, just wish I could run some of these games at a bit higher quality or just decently. Since I've had the luxury of not being spoiled by the insanity of current gen, a 1440p 60fps gaming rig running on my TV would really be more than satisfactory. From what I've learned so far, basically any entry level pc components would be like going from VHS to 4K bluray.

 

Also, looking to get a dual port 1Gbps LAN card with LAG support to be ran to my Asus RT-AX88U.

 

Suffice it to say I just really need some guidance. Anyone have any recommendations suggestions or the like? 

[greeatzy]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-12600KF 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor  ($223.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 White 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($46.36 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock Z690 PG Riptide ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($159.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($52.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($74.99 @ Best Buy) 
Video Card: MSI GAMING X TRIO GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB Video Card  ($679.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1238.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-12-15 11:03 EST-0500

 

Not a big fan for keeping that 650W PSU but hey every dollar counts. It will run with 650W but don't expect to overclock.

[dece870717]

18 hours ago, greeatzy said:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-12600KF 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor  ($223.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 White 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($46.36 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock Z690 PG Riptide ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($159.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($52.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($74.99 @ Best Buy) 
Video Card: MSI GAMING X TRIO GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB Video Card  ($679.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1238.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-12-15 11:03 EST-0500

 

Not a big fan for keeping that 650W PSU but hey every dollar counts. It will run with 650W but don't expect to overclock.

Thank you for recommendations list! 

 

"Not a big fan for keeping that 650W PSU " 

 

Funny you said that, because it was initially a concern of mine, so yesterday I plugged in my kill-a-watt and went to see what the wattage usage was with my rig and my currently overclocked 780 Ti. While under load playing rise of the tomb raider, my wattage usage never reached even 500 watts, and hovered around 440-470. The 780 Ti has apparently a maximum wattage of 250w, and the 3070 TI has a maximum wattage usage of 290w. And technically my current cpu has a TDP rating of 130w, while the recommended I5 is 125w. Just goes to show how efficiency has increased while having great increases in computing power.

 

So unless I'm forgetting some other variable I think I actually have more than enough. Seems as though most PSU wattage calculators are overly prudent in their recommendations, I'd be interested to know what the variables are that make them recommend usually a bit of a higher wattage PSU. 

[greeatzy]

2 hours ago, dece870717 said:

Thank you for recommendations list! 

 

"Not a big fan for keeping that 650W PSU " 

 

Funny you said that, because it was initially a concern of mine, so yesterday I plugged in my kill-a-watt and went to see what the wattage usage was with my rig and my currently overclocked 780 Ti. While under load playing rise of the tomb raider, my wattage usage never reached even 500 watts, and hovered around 440-470. The 780 Ti has apparently a maximum wattage of 250w, and the 3070 TI has a maximum wattage usage of 290w. And technically my current cpu has a TDP rating of 130w, while the recommended I5 is 125w. Just goes to show how efficiency has increased while having great increases in computing power.

 

So unless I'm forgetting some other variable I think I actually have more than enough. Seems as though most PSU wattage calculators are overly prudent in their recommendations, I'd be interested to know what the variables are that make them recommend usually a bit of a higher wattage PSU. 

Do as you want its your personal opinion. My personal opinion is that I always prefer to leave extra headroom on the PSU so the fan doesn't spin at all or spins bearly.

One more thing FYI as per Gamernexus 3070 Ti FE OCed draws around 325W and as per Pauls Hardware OCed 12600K draws 140W so thats 465W give or take or 71% give or take of 650W. I believe that seasonic x650 PSUs are quite units so even on 71% load they won't produce much noise.

Oh and yeah Official Nvidia Recommended system power (W) for a 3070 Ti is 750W.

[dece870717]

1 hour ago, greeatzy said:

Do as you want its your personal opinion. My personal opinion is that I always prefer to leave extra headroom on the PSU so the fan doesn't spin at all or spins bearly.

One more thing FYI as per Gamernexus 3070 Ti FE OCed draws around 325W and as per Pauls Hardware OCed 12600K draws 140W so thats 465W give or take or 71% give or take of 650W. I believe that seasonic x650 PSUs are quite units so even on 71% load they won't produce much noise.

Oh and yeah Official Nvidia Recommended system power (W) for a 3070 Ti is 750W.

Understood, no offense was meant (seems as though as it was possibly taken that way by your reply). I just mentioned what I did to try to help explain why I thought I'd be pretty safe. I also said it as a means of input that could get some feedback that might help me better understand if either my conclusion was good, or there was something else to consider.