Looking to Upgrade

[Ancestral]

Budget (including currency): 1000

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

Games I currently play: Maplestory, Fortnite

Games I'm looking to play: Monster Hunter Wilds, FF7 Remake, Borderlands 4, Space Marine 2

Workstation: Video Editing with adobe/divinci, coding and compiling projects

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): 

z370 gigabyte AORUS gaming 7 motherboard
8700k (not overclocked)
32gigs of ram ddr4
4060 OC
corsair hx850i platinum psu.

Hyper 212 Evo (new)

 

I'm going to be resuing my case, HDD, PSU, and GPU and CPU cooler. My PSU is about 5.5 years old, should I look at replacing this? Don't plan on doing any overclocking unless I should?

Current List I'm looking at:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/XQHswg

 

Thanks for any advice!

[tkitch]

Did you open the 212 Evo yet?  If not, you should see if you can return it.  There are much better coolers at a very similar price.

 

I'd look to see if any Canuckistanian shops are running AM5 bundle deals.  A 7600X or 7700X bundle can be very reasonable right now.  (Sub-400 USD for us south of the border) so, you could easily get that in the ~600$ range.  (Alternatively you could look at a DDR4 13th gen board & CPU, and reuse your 32GB DDR4, but that's not great as DDR5 is now a fair bit faster than 4 in actual usage.)

 

Do you have a SSD?  You need a SSD.  

 

Your PSU is probably still totally fine.

[Why_Me]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($478.98 @ Amazon Canada) 
CPU Cooler: *ID-COOLING FROZN A620 PRO SE 58 CFM CPU Cooler  ($49.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Motherboard: MSI MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($289.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Memory: *TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  ($123.50 @ Vuugo) 
Total: $942.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-02-10 16:34 EST-0500

[Ancestral]

1 hour ago, tkitch said:

Did you open the 212 Evo yet?  If not, you should see if you can return it.  There are much better coolers at a very similar price.

 

I'd look to see if any Canuckistanian shops are running AM5 bundle deals.  A 7600X or 7700X bundle can be very reasonable right now.  (Sub-400 USD for us south of the border) so, you could easily get that in the ~600$ range.  (Alternatively you could look at a DDR4 13th gen board & CPU, and reuse your 32GB DDR4, but that's not great as DDR5 is now a fair bit faster than 4 in actual usage.)

 

Do you have a SSD?  You need a SSD.  

 

Your PSU is probably still totally fine.

Hey, 

 

Thanks for the reply! I'm mainly looking at Amazon for a vendor for some stuff at least as I have some gift cards still for amazon. But the 212 evo is actually older that I've had for a bit but does have the am5 hardware. What cooler would you suggest I could add a bit of budget for one. 

 

I think I'd like to go ryzen this time but would be open to Intel still and go ddr5. 

 

I'd be reusing my ssd I have a 970 pro and a NAS for other storage. 

 

I also will be reusing my case which is a Fractal Design define r6

 

[Ravendarat]

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/BDL_MM00004631

That bundle saves you $150 that can be used elsewhere like a cooler

Or if you are doing strictly gaming this might be worth looking at

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/BDL_MM00004644

[tkitch]

there's a few coolers from Thermalright and ID Cooling that're crazy cheap and really good.

Frozn A620
Peerless Assassin 120 SE

and a few more in the 30-40$ USD range for a dual tower air cooler with 2 fans