Advice on upgrade list

[Versatildoom]

Budget (including currency): Looking to stay around $2000 USD but room to expand for the right reason

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly modded Minecraft and Escape From Tarkov but throw in a few other games here and there. I also do photography on the side and often work on very large scale stitched panoramas, sometimes the files exceed 3GB.

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): Peripherals not needed. Case (MSI Sekira 100R) will be reused. Perhaps down the line will turn current system into a NAS, but that is not a priority at the moment.

Current Setup:

• CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 AM4
• RAM: 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3200
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming ATX AM4
• GPU: MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z 6G
• PSU: Seasonic Focus GX-650 80+ Gold Fully Modular
• Cooler: Cooler Master ML240L AIO
• Storage: 1TB m.2 boot drive, 500GB SATA SSD, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda 7200 RPM Hard Drive
• OS: Windows 10
• Currently use 2 1080p monitors (MSI MAG271VCR 165hz as primary and a cheap Dell 32" as secondary)

Have lately been getting some stuttering when playing Minecraft, even had 2 BSOD last week (Pretty much first time since building 4 years ago), as well as simply terrible frames in Escape From Tarkov in general. Overall I have had excellent experience with this setup with almost no major issues in the 4 years since I built it. I will be adding a 1440p OLED monitor soon (MSI MAG 271QPX QD-OLED E2 240hz)  for a total of 3 monitors (1 1440p OLED, 2 1080p LED) (this is not part of the budget) and would like to get some advice on if my current system should handle this fine, or if the list I have compiled below is over/under-kill based on what I have now. I'd like to make something that will ideally last quite a while barring any part failures which cannot be accounted for. Given my good experience with the brands I have, I tried to stay with the same brands (MSI, ASUS, Seasonic, Corsair). Any advice is much appreciated.

 

Potential Upgrade List:

• CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D or Ryzen 7 7900X AM5
• RAM: 2x32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 CL 30
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix b650E-F Gaming ATX AM5
• GPU: MSI Gaming Slim RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
• PSU: Seasonic Focus GX-850 80+ Gold Fully Modular
• Cooler: Cooler Master ML 240L Core ARGB
• Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB m.2-2280 for boot drive plus another 2TB m.2 for additional game and photography storage
• OS: Windows 11 (Will need to factor this into budget)

[OddOod]

I would strongly recommend against the SLIM series GPU as they are both more expensive and less performant to fit into tighter cases. 
I would also recommend going with an air cooler (the Assassin is all the rage, though I'm a diehard Noctua boi) over an AIO. 
You can definitely save some cash going with a Crucial P3 SSD. 
With all that saved cash, you can probably bump up to a better GPU. And you should def consider waiting till NV50 series launches and grab a cheap used 40 series. 

[Ha-Satan]

Just to clarify, what M.2 setup do you need? You didn't specify M.2 generations other than the 980 Pro which is 4.0 x4. You can probably get a cheaper board than the Strix B650E-F but I wanted to double-check to make sure the drive arrangement would work before I make a recommendation.

[Versatildoom]

49 minutes ago, Satan_Prometheus said:

Just to clarify, what M.2 setup do you need? You didn't specify M.2 generations other than the 980 Pro which is 4.0 x4. You can probably get a cheaper board than the Strix B650E-F but I wanted to double-check to make sure the drive arrangement would work before I make a recommendation.

I had not considered the m.2 generation factor before. Not the most knowledgeable. If I went with the B650E-F it could accommodate 1 5.0x4 and the other being 4.0x4, however it seems like just going 4.0x4 is most economical. Is that what you mean by m.2 setup? I won't be setting them up into a RAID array if that is what you meant. The reason I thought of using the B650E-F was that it seemed most like a direct upgrade from my B550F. I prefer the integrated IO shield and compared to something slightly cheaper like the MSI B650 Tomahawk, it has 1 PCIE 5.0x16 slot compared to only 4.0x16, which if I understand is not that useful right now, but 5 years down the line could be helpful for upgrading a GPU.

[Ha-Satan]

12 minutes ago, Versatildoom said:

I had not considered the m.2 generation factor before. Not the most knowledgeable. If I went with the B650E-F it could accommodate 1 5.0x4 and the other being 4.0x4, however it seems like just going 4.0x4 is most economical. Is that what you mean by m.2 setup? I won't be setting them up into a RAID array if that is what you meant. The reason I thought of using the B650E-F was that it seemed most like a direct upgrade from my B550F. I prefer the integrated IO shield and compared to something slightly cheaper like the MSI B650 Tomahawk, it has 1 PCIE 5.0x16 slot compared to only 4.0x16, which if I understand is not that useful right now, but 5 years down the line could be helpful for upgrading a GPU.

That answers my question, yeah.

 

How soon do you need to build this? I would personally recommend waiting until the 9800X3D comes back in stock, because it's a significant upgrade over the Ryzen 7000 chips for both gaming and photo editing.

[Versatildoom]

4 minutes ago, Satan_Prometheus said:

That answers my question, yeah.

 

How soon do you need to build this? I would personally recommend waiting until the 9800X3D comes back in stock, because it's a significant upgrade over the Ryzen 7000 chips for both gaming and photo editing.

I am in no rush. This was just something I started thinking about because I have a new 1440p OLED monitor on the way. I appreciate the advice on waiting for the 9800X3D. 

Edited December 3, 2024 by Versatildoom

[Ha-Satan]

1 minute ago, Versatildoom said:

I am in no rush. This was just something I started thinking about because I have a new 1440p monitor on the way. I appreciate the advice on waiting for the 9800X3D. 

No problem! Check out the GN review:

 

https://gamersnexus.net/cpus/rip-intel-amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-cpu-review-benchmarks-vs-7800x3d-285k-14900k-more

 

As you can see, the 9800X3D is clearly faster for gaming, and it's even quite a bit faster for Photoshop despite that generally not being particularly helped by the 3D v-cache.

[Why_Me]

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