Advice on PC "upgrade"

[Kendo]

Hi, Linus tech tips forums! I have finally decided to upgrade my PC which mainly has 2010 components other than a GPU I upgraded it with but now it's feeling sluggish and I have some money to spend. I'm in the UK and my budget is £2000 (No idea what the exchange rate is with the pound falling every day it seems)  this budget is only for the PC I have all the peripherals I need.  I have never built a PC before but I have moved an old build to a newish case. 

 

I only use my PC to game and stream content. I have a 27" CFG70 Curved Gaming Monitor which is only 1080p but I also currently hook my PC up to my 4k TV for streaming and playing games with a controller. I have actually already purchased some upgrades and I am keeping my current Case, HDD & SSD but these are the only things that are staying. Here is what I have purchased so far (if anything is really bad I can still return them).

 

CPU intel Core i7-8700K 3.70GHz LGA1151 Processor

Cooling Corsair CW-9060027-WW Hydro Series H115i 280 mm

Motherboard MSI Z370 SLI PLUS Socket LGA 1151 DDR4 ATX

GPU ASUS ROG STRIX GTX1080TI 11GB

Ram  Corsair Vengeance Blue LED 16GB DDR4 3200 Memory Kit- CMU16GX4M2C3200C16B 2x8gb

SSD  2x Samsung 960 PRO V-NAND M.2 SSD - 512GB in Raid 0

PSU Corsair CP-9020091-UK RM650x 650 W 80 Plus Gold Certified Modular 135 mm

 

Any advice will be appreciated!

 

 

 

 

 

[MR1PRO]

any rgb ram is good either 16x2 or 8x2 

1080 asus strix oc

[AncientNerd]

7 minutes ago, Kendo said:

Hi, Linus tech tips forums! I have finally decided to upgrade my PC which mainly has 2010 components other than a GPU I upgraded it with but now it's feeling sluggish and I have some money to spend. I'm in the UK and my budget is £2000 (No idea what the exchange rate is with the pound falling every day it seems)  this budget is only for the PC I have all the peripherals I need.  I have never built a PC before but I have moved an old build to a newish case. 

 

I only use my PC to game and stream content. I have a 27" CFG70 Curved Gaming Monitor which is only 1080p but I also currently hook my PC up to my 4k TV for streaming and playing games with a controller. I have actually already purchased some upgrades and I am keeping my current Case, HDD & SSD but these are the only things that are staying. Here is what I have purchased so far (if anything is really bad I can still return them).

 

CPU intel Core i7-8700K 3.70GHz LGA1151 Processor

Cooling Corsair CW-9060027-WW Hydro Series H115i 280 mm

Motherboard MSI Z370 SLI PLUS Socket LGA 1151 DDR4 ATX

GPU ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-11G-GAMING GF GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB

Ram  Corsair Vengeance Blue LED 16GB DDR4 3200 Memory Kit- CMU16GX4M2C3200C16B

SSD  2x Samsung 960 PRO V-NAND M.2 SSD - 512GB Raid 0

PSU Corsair CP-9020091-UK RM650x 650 W 80 Plus Gold Certified Modular 135 mm

 

Any advice will be appreciated!

 

 

 

 

 

Well unless you really absolutely need super blazing fast disk access two SATA SSDs in RAID 0 would give you a fast but less expensive solution. But that's really up to you have have a pair of Samsung 950 EVO in RAID 0 and it is plenty fast. 

[Kendo]

Thanks for the replies, I've updated the list as the 1080ti is the OC version and the RAM is 2x8gb, I have heard good things about the 960 pros in RAID and I wanted to try it out. 

 

One thing I was contemplating was using a 3tb 7200 SATA HDD with Intel optane for programs and files I don't need the 960 pro speeds for. Though I'm not sure if octane only works on the system drive. I even saw an online review where someone has done raid 0 on 3 intel octanes and used it for windows and it booted an ran super fast, I don't have enough M.2 slots for that though.

 

Are there any other improvements anyone can think of?

[Kendo]

One other question was, how easy would it be to transfer my current Windows 10 from a 125gb SSD I have to the new 960 pro raid setup? and if anyone has any experience of using optane I would like to know if the above is possible with the SATA HDD and octane and a high speed but high capacity secondary drive.