Upgrade Plan

[The_SlaY3R]

Budget (including currency): CAD

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming 95%+ of the time.

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): 

Hello LTT Forums,

I'm looking for a small discusion if possible to inlight my futur build. =)

 

Current Rig:

-Monitor: Asus ROG PG279 (G-Sync)

-CPU: Intel i7-6700K

-Cooler: Noctua NH-D14

-MB: Asus Z170-A

-RAM: 16GB 3200Mhz

-GPU: Asus GTX 1080 Strix OC 8GB

-PSU: Corsair HX850W

-OS: Win10

 

Here's a few games that I play: Final Fantasy 14, Baldur's Gate 3, DCS, Squad.

My usual setting are 1440p (High/Max settings)

I'm also still using an optical drive to play my older games: Command and Conquer 3, Sim City 3000, Disciple 2 to name a few.

 

 

I'm currently looking at this upgrade:

-Monitor: Asus ROG PG279 (G-Sync)

-CPU: Intel i7-14700K

-Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 (upgrade kit)

-MB: Asus TUF Gaming Z790-Plus (because of the price atm)

-RAM: 32GB 5600Mhz

-GPU: Asus GTX 1080 Strix OC 8GB (waiting on RTX 5000 release)

-PSU: Corsair HX850W

-OS: Win10

 

I sold my soul nvidia for the GPU, I won't switch to an AMD GPU.

But I'm wondering on the CPU. I'm used to always buy Intel (due to the games that I play).
I've even recommended the 7800X3D to some of my friends and view the Intel as a bad budget choice.

I feel I should get a 7800X3D but apart of me feels I'll be missing out or have trouble with some of my games...

I do small OC to none.

ATM, I've OC my current rig with the XMP to 12% according to my Asus Motherboard.

 

Here's one of the problem I see:

If I go Intel, I won't have enough cable with my current PSU to power 2x CPU socket (the HX850W only comes with 1x8-pin).

I will have some space to none for a slight OC.

If I go AMD, I'll have more room for OC since they tend to be less power hungry.

 

If the LTT community could help me making "the right choice", I'd really appreciate.

(sorry english isn't my 1st language)

[Queen Chrysalis]

Which GPU do you want?  Unless you want a 5090 you can just get something now, it won’t be that much different.  Otherwise you won’t really see much benefit from buying all if this now.

 

Also, depending on your actual CPU needs, a 12600kf and a DDR4 board might bring your costs down a lot.  It’s fast enough for almost any current GPU at 1440p and you could just get a 2nd kit of DDR4 to get you to 32GB.

[BentleyOwen123]

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wCrcL9

CPU: Intel Core i5-12600KF 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor  ($154.65 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($33.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock Z690 Pro RS ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($119.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($73.09 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Zotac Twin Edge GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB Video Card  ($589.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1031.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-04-18 00:45 EDT-0400

 

 

will be a 1440p beast, there's no need for ddr5 for gaming, maybe look for a used 3080 ti

[The_SlaY3R]

I'm looking for a RTX #080. I usually by the "flagship".

Price is never the issue, I'm more looking for the wisest choice.

I might have confused some people when I said (because of price) for the new motherboard.

It's only that I rarely buy "for Gamers" stuff. It's marketting pure and simple.

 

From the data I've read online, the DDR5 helps for my games such as Squad and DCS.

 

Also, I'm not looking for the F version of the CPU, I always like to have a "gpu" available incase the video card fails.

[The_SlaY3R]

As I stated earlier in my first post, I'm more looking the pros and cons of the 7800X3D vs 14700k in my case.