Narrowing down an upgrade path

[Eulers_Method]

Hey guys, had an old account on here but wanted to change usernames. Anyway, I am looking to plan out an upgrade path and always enjoy talking to other people about it. 

 

Current rig:

AMD FX 8320 with Asus Crosshair V formula z

GTX 780 SLI

2x860 EVO 250gb

H100i V2

16gb gddr3

800W EVGA gold power supply

 

Planned Upgrades:

Ryzen 7 1700

Asus Crosshair VI hero

16gb GDDR4

GTX 1080ti

Acer x34 or ASUS ROG PG348Q or ASUS ROG PG27AQ

 

My problem is that I will not be performing this upgrade in a single go. I will be doing it in 3 stages with a period of 2-3 months between stages. Right now I am leaning to going with the Ryzen upgrade first, followed by monitor and GPU upgrade.  Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations?  Also what is your opinion on the 3 monitors? Part of me wants to maybe wait for Volta since the current architecture is over year old but that is looking like a 9 month wait at the moment....do you all think I could drive the 1440 panels with the current sli config as a stop gap?

 

[Skiiwee29]

The Ryzen upgrade would be the path I would go with first. It will give you the best upgrade upfront. 

[Ezio Auditore]

37 minutes ago, Eulers_Method said:

Hey guys, had an old account on here but wanted to change usernames. Anyway, I am looking to plan out an upgrade path and always enjoy talking to other people about it. 

 

Current rig:

AMD FX 8320 with Asus Crosshair V formula z

GTX 780 SLI

2x860 EVO 250gb

H100i V2

16gb gddr3

800W EVGA gold power supply

 

Planned Upgrades:

Ryzen 7 1700

Asus Crosshair VI hero

16gb GDDR4

GTX 1080ti

Acer x34 or ASUS ROG PG348Q or ASUS ROG PG27AQ

 

My problem is that I will not be performing this upgrade in a single go. I will be doing it in 3 stages with a period of 2-3 months between stages. Right now I am leaning to going with the Ryzen upgrade first, followed by monitor and GPU upgrade.  Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations?  Also what is your opinion on the 3 monitors? Part of me wants to maybe wait for Volta since the current architecture is over year old but that is looking like a 9 month wait at the moment....do you all think I could drive the 1440 panels with the current sli config as a stop gap?

 

That depends. Are you going to use this for work more or for gaming?Choose accordingly.

[Guest]

The ryzen upgrade path you are going with is definitely a step up from your current system and will give you lots of benefits. Keep the PSU, AIO cooler and the SSD's. The 1080ti should easily be able to run 3 monitors.

[Eulers_Method]

Thats

4 minutes ago, Ezio Auditore said:

That depends. Are you going to use this for work more or for gaming?Choose accordingly.

 current workloads includes a healthy amount of gaming(emphasis on healthy lol) and Solidworks(Applied Physics major working on the Propulsion element of a rocket project atm, so I do want a monitor that would be good for both). Ideally I would love to go with a threadripper build but sigh, just dont think i could justify it...

[Ezio Auditore]

2 minutes ago, Eulers_Method said:

Thats

 current workloads includes a healthy amount of gaming(emphasis on healthy lol) and Solidworks(Applied Physics major working on the Propulsion element of a rocket project atm, so I do want a monitor that would be good for both). Ideally I would love to go with a threadripper build but sigh, just dont think i could justify it...

Ryzen FTW

[Eulers_Method]

6 minutes ago, TheBeastPC said:

The ryzen upgrade path you are going with is definitely a step up from your current system and will give you lots of benefits. Keep the PSU, AIO cooler and the SSD's. The 1080ti should easily be able to run 3 monitors.

yes that was my plan to keep the AIO, PSU, SSD's, and case. Thanks for the replies guys!