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Budget (including currency): $1000 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: FPS, Flavor of the month games, a small bit of solidworks etc

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): 

 

Wanting to upgrade build after 3 years, need advice/confirmation

 

-I game on a 1080p on 24" 144hz monitors. I only have 2 monitors for PC, 1 for my work laptop

-Would rather upgrade things, than build a whole new PC at this point

-Could wait til after new Ryzen chips to get announced?

 

--Current--

 

CPU - 2700x Ryzen

Mobo - B450 Tomahawk

Memory - Cruail Ballistix Sport LT 16gb

GPU - Zotac 2060 6gb

PSU - 650w Seasonic

Main HD - Samsung 860evo 1TB

 

--Upgrades-- (my thoughts)

 

CPU - 5800x3d

Mobo - Keep same

RAM - get another 2 sticks? or possibly a different 32gb set pending price

GPU - 3060TI - was looking at either of these https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-REV2-0-WINDFORCE-GV-N306TGAMING-OC-8GD or https://www.amazon.com/MSI-RTX-3060-LHR-Architecture/dp/B09BK9X9K9

PSU - Keep same (Seasonic 650w)

Main HD - Upgrade to a 3.0 NVME drive? They seem to be rather cheap now https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B25LZGGW

 

Additional parts:

 

Adding this All in one cooler? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WP6M7P7 or another one someone recommends

 

Is this a good plan for the future? Will these upgrades last another 2 years?

 

How well will this future proof me to playing 1440 or even 4k?

 

Thank you in advance.

 

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I have doubts with B450 for 5800X and up, the VRM cooling would have to be very good for a B450. I'd advise 5700X instead, far cheaper and you could put more money on the GPU.

 

RAM, I'm not sure if solidworks required tons of RAM, but if it doesn't, then I'd advise to not upgrade the RAM.

 

Does solidworks require CUDA cores? If so, then I guess RTX cards it is. Any 3060 TI would perform about the same, model difference hardly matter for low end cards. If you're aiming for 1440p future upgrade, I'd suggest RTX 3070 (or RX 6700 XT if solidworks don't need CUDA).

 

For SSD, I'd advise Kingston NV2 for cheap gen 4 SSD. Or cheap gen 3 SSD such as Team MP33 or Silicone Power A60.

 

The AIO you picked is a good one, and should be able to cool 5700X/5800X3D.

 

As for the future proofing, CPU wise it is great, but GPU, 3060 Ti for 1440p is pushing it too hard, with medium-high settings you might be able to get stable 60+fps on latest AAA games, but don't expect too much.

 

 

 

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