Big pc upgrade

[C_Jester]

I'm looking to upgrade nearly my whole pc except my gtx 1070. My budget is 850-900$ and the things I was looking to get are as follows

CPU

Mobo

ram 

psu (prefer fully modular)

case (was thinking a S340 elite)

m.2 ssd 

and a aio water cooler for the CPU 

 

the pc will be used mainly for gaming @1080p 144hz on games like overwatch, gta 5, witcher 3, and rise of the tomb raider. I guess my main question would be should I go for the ryzen 1700 or the i7 7700k. I'm not entirely sure on which one has to offer in gaming terms but thought I'd reach out for some help and thoughts.

[The Sloth]

1700x would give you more fps in certain games if you overclock. 

[honor]

i could easily point out some fitting builds, but at this point better wait for independent ryzen reviews in the next days to make your final decision

[fanchazstic]

we don't really have much for benchmarks of Ryzen in games. Wait until the benchmarks come out from all the reviewers in the next few days. But as someone who did pre-order a 1800x, I think the 7700k will still perform better in games. I got the 1800x for content creation purposes, but I also game a little. I fully expect the i7's to beat it in gaming, even if it's really close still. But to be completely honest, I don't think the bottleneck in any game will be a 7700k or a 1700, the bottleneck will more than likely be the 1070. Not that that's a problem, but that it might not matter what cpu you get. 

 

For RAM, find something that looks nice and comes from a reputable company. I personally really like HyperX Fury because it looks sexy af imo. Mobo depends on the cpu. Case, s340 is a good choice. if you are getting m.2, might as well go NVME. No point in getting a sata m.2 unless you have specific reasons, so the Samsung 960 Evo NVME drive is looking really amazing. AIO, personally I have and love the Corsair H100i V2, but to each their own

[C_Jester]

16 minutes ago, fanchazstic said:

we don't really have much for benchmarks of Ryzen in games. Wait until the benchmarks come out from all the reviewers in the next few days. But as someone who did pre-order a 1800x, I think the 7700k will still perform better in games. I got the 1800x for content creation purposes, but I also game a little. I fully expect the i7's to beat it in gaming, even if it's really close still. But to be completely honest, I don't think the bottleneck in any game will be a 7700k or a 1700, the bottleneck will more than likely be the 1070. Not that that's a problem, but that it might not matter what cpu you get. 

 

For RAM, find something that looks nice and comes from a reputable company. I personally really like HyperX Fury because it looks sexy af imo. Mobo depends on the cpu. Case, s340 is a good choice. if you are getting m.2, might as well go NVME. No point in getting a sata m.2 unless you have specific reasons, so the Samsung 960 Evo NVME drive is looking really amazing. AIO, personally I have and love the Corsair H100i V2, but to each their own

Yea I wasn't quite sure how the whole ryzen 7s would do at gaming due to most games only needing really good single core performance but I've noticed almost all games i play are being severely bottlenecked by my current CPU to where my gpu is only at 50% load at times. And I know that it is game dependent whether or not it's CPU or gpu intensive but across the variety of games this has been a common thing. I was also debating on getting a second 1070 in the future for sli and seeing how the ryzen x370 motherboards are the only ones that support sli I guess that's the chipset I would have to use. 

 

Random thought why did amd amd choose to go with so many different chipsets for the ryzen series it seems very unnecessary 

[fanchazstic]

7 minutes ago, C_Jester said:

Yea I wasn't quite sure how the whole ryzen 7s would do at gaming due to most games only needing really good single core performance but I've noticed almost all games i play are being severely bottlenecked by my current CPU to where my gpu is only at 50% load at times. And I know that it is game dependent whether or not it's CPU or gpu intensive but across the variety of games this has been a common thing. I was also debating on getting a second 1070 in the future for sli and seeing how the ryzen x370 motherboards are the only ones that support sli I guess that's the chipset I would have to use. 

 

Random thought why did amd amd choose to go with so many different chipsets for the ryzen series it seems very unnecessary 

what cpu do you have right now? 

 

The reason they went with so many different chipsets is to cover all the markets, from the high end, to the low end. I think it's dumb that only x370 gets sli, but it is what it is. 

[C_Jester]

9 hours ago, fanchazstic said:

what cpu do you have right now? 

 

The reason they went with so many different chipsets is to cover all the markets, from the high end, to the low end. I think it's dumb that only x370 gets sli, but it is what it is. 

my current pc is below the ram a and psu is a little different but i couldn't find the exact ones i have on pcpartpicker but it gets the specs right

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($238.48 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Intel BXTS15A CPU Cooler  ($29.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($39.99 @ Jet) 
Memory: Mushkin Essentials 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($44.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.33 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card  ($379.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Enermax Thorex ATX Mid Tower Case 
Power Supply: Rosewill 500W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0B DVD/CD Writer  ($16.88 @ OutletPC) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit  ($99.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $959.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-01 11:47 EST-0500

[fanchazstic]

1 hour ago, C_Jester said:

my current pc is below the ram a and psu is a little different but i couldn't find the exact ones i have on pcpartpicker but it gets the specs right

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($238.48 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Intel BXTS15A CPU Cooler  ($29.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($39.99 @ Jet) 
Memory: Mushkin Essentials 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($44.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.33 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card  ($379.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Enermax Thorex ATX Mid Tower Case 
Power Supply: Rosewill 500W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0B DVD/CD Writer  ($16.88 @ OutletPC) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit  ($99.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $959.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-01 11:47 EST-0500

Yeah I mean a 7700k has like 2 times the performance of that i5 and in multi-threaded workloads the 1700 will be even faster than that