Im planning to upgrade my rig since the mobo died(from a lightning). And now i do a lot of editing(premier pro and lightroom). So planning to upgrade it for better productivity. my current rig is: Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Kingston 8gb (value stick) Asrock Fatal1ty H87 Performance Seasonic S12II 620W Silver Stone AR02 Asus GTX770 Direct CU II OC And im planning to upgrade the cpu(mobo and ram included) first and reuse the other parts(GPU, PSU, casing, ssd and hdd). Should i get Ryzen 7 1700 or i7 8700? and which mobo n ram should be the best. From Malaysia with a budget around 700USD more or less.

Upgrading Rig

By A. Munsif
November 4, 2017 in New Builds and Planning

Go to solution Solved by just_dave, November 5, 2017

These boards are worth it if you plan to push 8 core.

Best is Taichi, middle is Strix and the worst is Gaming 5.

I'd take the Strix because it is pretty balanced board, I don't like the Taichi that much because of the excessive (yes, excessive) amount of phases/fets which leads to lower efficiency than Strix. It does run very cool however, only limitation is the willy-nilly doubling that limits the Fsw to 300KHz max (i think 600KHz is the max of 35201, so 600/2 = 300)

57 minutes ago, A. Munsif said:

Asus Strix X370-F Gaming

Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5

Asrock X370 Taichi.

Posted November 5, 2017

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1 hour ago, dave_k said:

These boards are worth it if you plan to push 8 core.

Best is Taichi, middle is Strix and the worst is Gaming 5.

I'd take the Strix because it is pretty balanced board, I don't like the Taichi that much because of the excessive (yes, excessive) amount of phases/fets which leads to lower efficiency than Strix. It does run very cool however, only limitation is the willy-nilly doubling that limits the Fsw to 300KHz max (i think 600KHz is the max of 35201, so 600/2 = 300)

So to sum things out,

Ryzen 7 1700

Asus Strix X370

G.Skill Trident 3200 16gb

and for now paired with my current

Seasonic S12II 620W and Asus GTX 770 DIrect CU II OC.

Should be fine right?