My old PC upgrade

[Kporabik]

Budget (including currency): ~1000 euro

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Adobe photoshop, ilustrator, blender, League, ocasionaly some new games titles

Other details:

Hi there i finaly decided to upgrade my old pc. the decision was made coused to pc recently starting to be laggy, also my ram was beeing maxed out often.

 

Current setup:

Case: NZXT H500 white

PSU: BeQuiet 750W gold

Mobo: Asus crosshair VII wifi X470

RAM: 4x8gb gskill flare X 3200MHz  CL14

CPU: Ryzen 5800x + BeQuiet Dark rock pro 4

GPU: MSI 2080 Gaming trio X

Storage: 1tb - Samsung 970 evo

               500gb - Samsung 970 evo plus

               1tb - Some old random HDD

 

Those components will be reused

 

My current shopping spree:

Case: Corsair 4000D flow

PSU: Corsair HX1200 platinum

Mobo: Asus B550-xe wifi

RAM: 2x32gb gskill trident Z neo 3600MHz CL16

AIO: Thermaltake Toughliquid 360

Storage: 2tb - samsung 970 evo plus (bulk storage)

               1tb - WD SN850X (boot drive + temp)

Thermal paste: Arctic MX-6

(there was plan to upgrade CPU to 5900x but i got scammed on it so ill stick to my old one)

 

The only thing left to buy are case fans. Im looking for some budget friendly rgb (without some chinese controler). I want them to have only a tiny ring around so its not to shiny.

Like here: 

 

I want to get 3 of similar style for exhaust.

Question is should i get 3x120mm or maybe 1x120 + 2x140 (the biggest i can mount)

 

Do you think its a decent setup for what ill be doing?

[Hinjima]

6 minutes ago, Kporabik said:

Budget (including currency): ~1000 euro

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Adobe photoshop, ilustrator, blender, League, ocasionaly some new games titles

Other details:

Hi there i finaly decided to upgrade my old pc. the decision was made coused to pc recently starting to be laggy, also my ram was beeing maxed out often.

 

Current setup:

Case: NZXT H500 white

PSU: BeQuiet 750W gold

Mobo: Asus crosshair VII wifi X470

RAM: 4x8gb gskill flare X 3200MHz  CL14

CPU: Ryzen 5800x + BeQuiet Dark rock pro 4

GPU: MSI 2080 Gaming trio X

Storage: 1tb - Samsung 970 evo

               500gb - Samsung 970 evo plus

               1tb - Some old random HDD

 

Those components will be reused

 

My current shopping spree:

Case: Corsair 4000D flow

PSU: Corsair HX1200 platinum

Mobo: Asus B550-xe wifi

RAM: 2x32gb gskill trident Z neo 3600MHz CL16

AIO: Thermaltake Toughliquid 360

Storage: 2tb - samsung 970 evo plus (bulk storage)

               1tb - WD SN850X (boot drive + temp)

Thermal paste: Arctic MX-6

(there was plan to upgrade CPU to 5900x but i got scammed on it so ill stick to my old one)

 

The only thing left to buy are case fans. Im looking for some budget friendly rgb (without some chinese controler). I want them to have only a tiny ring around so its not to shiny.

Like here: 

 

I want to get 3 of similar style for exhaust.

Question is should i get 3x120mm or maybe 1x120 + 2x140 (the biggest i can mount)

 

Do you think its a decent setup for what ill be doing?

Sheesh.  Why do you need a 1200w powersupply? You are not running an RTX 4090 :D.  A 750w is MORE than enough, maybe get a 850w if you plan on upgrading your GPU later. I would reuse your Be Quiet 750w. I use a 750w for my RTX 4080 system.   Thermaltake Toughliquid 360 comes with thermal paste so there is no need to buy Arctic MX-6. 

[Kporabik]

I bought 1200W since next year im planning of upgrading my GPU. So i wanted to future proof myself. Also with lower stres PSU will propably work passively

[Hinjima]

1 minute ago, Kporabik said:

I bought 1200W since next year im planning of upgrading my GPU. So i wanted to future proof myself

Fair enough. 1200w is absolutely insane but you aint wrong, that is definitely future proof

[Hinjima]

12 minutes ago, Kporabik said:

I bought 1200W since next year im planning of upgrading my GPU. So i wanted to future proof myself. Also with lower stres PSU will propably work passively

Hope I didnt come across rude or anything. You definitely got a good system with room for a beast of a GPU later!   How many fans are you planning to have in your system?

[Kporabik]

I wasnt thinking its rude  Overall 3 stock fans for AIO + 3 fans for exhaust. I still dont know what fans to buy tho

[Hinjima]

6 minutes ago, Kporabik said:

I wasnt thinking its rude  Overall 3 stock fans for AIO + 3 fans for exhaust. I still dont know what fans to buy tho

Is you AIO mounted in the front? If yes I would use just 1 or 2 fans for exhaust. You want more air into the case ( positive pressure )  If you have negative pressure it needs to draw air from somewhere and that will be from all small gaps around the case, leading to a lot of dust buildup.  The fans in the video you posted looks great though, why not get those?

[Kporabik]

Yes. AIO will be in the front. 3x120mm. Okay but should i go for 2x140 for the top? Or maybe 2x120 for back and top? Im pretty new when it comes to fans and airflow. I havent touched anything in my old NZXT. Im not sure about those somehow. Thats some weird offbrand stuff and im not sure if they will last long

[Hinjima]

1 minute ago, Kporabik said:

Yes. AIO will be in the front. 3x120mm. Okay but should i go for 2x140 for the top? Or maybe 2x120 for back and top? Im pretty new when it comes to fans and airflow. I havent touched anything in my old NZXT. Im not sure about those somehow. Thats some weird offbrand stuff and im not sure if they will last long

Yeah 1 at the back and 1 at the top would be good!  Even just 1 at the back would be good enough.  JayzTwoCents actually made a video 12 days ago, going over this very topic. Maybe you can find this helpful. Let me know!

 

[Kporabik]

Yeah thats really helpful  I think ill get 3x120 then and lower RPMs as much as possible so the pressure is correct and the noise lvl is lower 

[Ryuikko]

I can't really see a point in upgrading your mobo if your not upgrading your cpu. At that point I'd look at getting a 13600k with a z690 or something similar to that. A solid 1000w psu will be more than enough for 95% of gpus on the market currently 

[Kporabik]

Im upgrading my mobo since currently my GPU runs at x8 due to lack of pcie lanes on the chipset (also when ill be upgrading my gpu next year i might also try to fish a 5950x). When it comes to psu i bought it relatively cheap. so that was a major factor (otherwise i would propably go for something around 850-1000)

[Dedayog]

53 minutes ago, Kporabik said:

I bought 1200W since next year im planning of upgrading my GPU. So i wanted to future proof myself. Also with lower stres PSU will propably work passively

It's not future proofing, it's just buying something you will need.

 

You don't build a garage to future proof if you're buying a car next year

 

Again why a 1200w PSU?  Your "upgrades don't make sense, except for the RAM.  And buy another 2TB SSD for storage, as none of your current drives are bad at all.

 

Replace your RAM, buy an SSD, and save the rest for when you actually need to buy it.  Ie. the PSU when you get said GPU.  Buying the PSU now is just... confusing.

 

Btw, a 2080 doesn't saturate a x8 connection.  It would have to be a 2080Ti to do that.  No impact there.  Upgrade when you get a new GPU.

 

 

[Kporabik]

I got the psu really cheap (130 euro). The one i have is almost 10yo from my first build. (i sometimes get bsod with random codes so thats why i suspected its time has come)

 

When it comes to drives you might be right (beside 1tb hdd which is also almost 10yo is often spiking usage to 100%) But i wanted to upgrade to pcie 4.0 Thats why i bought that WD drive. And since i didnt wanted to loose any capacity i bought 2tb samsung pcie3.0 (b550 limitations).(also the pricing off nvme and normal ssd was almost the same so choice was obvious atleast for me).

I had to get mobo to get pcie4.0.

 

And new case was for me to get better thermals

 

When it comes to my gpu you are also propably right (back in the days ive seen some comparison videos with 5%performance difference) 

[Queen Chrysalis]

1 hour ago, Hinjima said:

Fair enough. 1200w is absolutely insane but you aint wrong, that is definitely future proof

IIf it's not ATX 3.0 it's not future proof.  And PSUs are incredibly expensive at the moment, this is one of the worst time you could possibly buy a PSU that you don;t need.

 

TBH outside of RAM, none of this is a performance upgrade.  Your motherboard is more than capable of running any AM4 CPU perfectly.  Do you already have the 5800x?

 

55 minutes ago, Kporabik said:

Im upgrading my mobo since currently my GPU runs at x8 due to lack of pcie lanes on the chipset

lack of PCIe lanes on the Chipset?  Just use the lower m.2 slot.  You don't need two nvmes, just partition your boot to like 120GB of your 970 evo drive.  

 

If you wanna use both spots, read this.  It's really, really not an issue.  Look down the thread to like the 5th or 6th post:

Crosshair VII: M.2 drives steal PCIE bandwidth (asus.com)