Should I upgrade?

Asonitez · November 27, 2023

Budget (including currency): 3000

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Large Spreadsheets, Large File Editing, 4K Video Editing (down to 1080p), Gaming,

Other details:

Existing PC Specs (3 Years Old)

Ryzen 9 3950X Stock Speeds on a ROG Crosshair VIII Formula

64 GB GSkill at 3600mhz

Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 NVME X 2

Aorus 360mm Radiator

EVGA Geforce 1080Ti

(purchase list below)

I'm a content creator and occasional gamer. I use my PC a lot especially when editing and batch processing large 24mb graphic files (100's at a time). I am also editing gopro 4k footage as well as Sony 4K footage and then encoding them to 1080p.

My thought process with the 3950x was that the additional cores would rock my world. However, when editing in premiere I ran into a lot of issues encoding videos and having video effects encode on my timeline without actually triggering an encoding. I realize that this is probably because of my video card.

My issue is that I left the PC building game after this build and have not kept up with what is going on. Intel Series processors and AMD/NVIDIA gfx are all alien to me and after watching a bunch of LTT videos i'm still not sure what to buy or even if I need to buy.

I'm thinking the i9 processors because i will get a lot of single core performance and can't knock 6ghz boost. I'm not lacking for storage on my existing drives as I use a lot of external storage. I tend to buy the higher end parts as I keep my rigs on average for around 5/6 years and then its upgrade mom time. Used hardware does not go to waste in this house and i'm not scared of spending some cash on high performance parts that will get me 4/5 years before I feel the need to upgrade. I'm only on 3 years with this rig so I guess I'm not too far off but would like some advice.

Option 1

Go Intel i9 - Mobo- Vid Card and xfer the case and storage

Option 2

Upgrade the GPU and wait on w/e comes next

Option 3

Buy a barebone pre-config rig (cyberpower etc) and xfer in my storage etc.

I dont think i need anything more than a 4080 or maybe even a 4070TI but yall tell me.

oh and thanks!