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Budget (including currency): $600

Country: usa

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: general gaming and also music production.

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):  

 

i currently have an i7-11700kf, and a 3070 in a prebuilt. I only have a 120 aio and 3 other fans in the case. I want to upgrade the cooler to the kraken 240 lcd, h5 flow, 850 psu, and 2x lian li infinity fans. 
 

i am wondering if is worth me upgrading all of that but keeping my older gen cpu and gpu.
 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Shadow12976 said:

Should I upgrade the case but buy a lower end cooler and fans and try to get a new gpu/cpu?

The CPU is fine, I would recommend a CPU cooler upgrade if you plan to overclock (which you should, since you don't have any room to upgrade to a new CPU generation in the same motherboard)

 

A new case can be a good idea if you are concerned your current case does not have good airflow.

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

Primary PC:

i7 8086k - EVGA Z370 Classified K - G.Skill Trident Z RGB - WD SN750 - Jedi Order Titan Xp - Hyper 212 Black (with RGB Riing flair) - EVGA G3 650W - dual booting Windows 11 and Fedora Linux - Black and green theme, Razer brainwashed me.

Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

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