PC Upgrade thoughts/ideas

[Dodgeyou]

So I plan on upgrading my PC in the near future and I wanted to know your thoughts.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bRNptJ 

[Vegetable]

Is this what you're trying to upgrade to? That's awful. Get a Ryzen 3 1200 or an i3 or something jesus christ stay away from the entire FX line. 

[Dodgeyou]

3 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

Is this what you're trying to upgrade to? That's awful. Get a Ryzen 3 1200 or an i3 or something jesus christ stay away from the entire FX line. 

Yeah, atm I have an FX-4300 and wanted to upgrade it to get some more years out of this PC

[dave3818]

You won't really notice a difference. An i5 2500 or 2500k can easily outperform both and is cheaper. 2500 only lacks behind slightly in multicore performance. Have a look at this chart 

 

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-2500-vs-AMD-FX-8370  

 

I made a spreadsheet for a cheap ryzen 3 build, with all new parts, for around £300 ($400 US), message me if you want a look at it

[Rolling Potatoe]

23 minutes ago, Dodgeyou said:

Yeah, atm I have an FX-4300 and wanted to upgrade it to get some more years out of this PC

If you only have an fx 4core the 8 core will do much better in modern games. I would look at the used marked though,

there are plenty of people flipping their old fx cpus. If you have more money to spend and want a bigger upgrade you

might just be better of switching the plattform, but for 60 hz gaming even fx 6 and 8 cores are mostly good enough still.

BTW it would make sense to post what is inside your current rig.

[Dodgeyou]

3 minutes ago, Rolling Potatoe said:

If you only have an fx 4core the 8 core will do much better in modern games. I would look at the used marked though,

there are plenty of people flipping their old fx cpus. If you have more money to spend and want a bigger upgrade you

might just be better of switching the plattform, but for 60 hz gaming even fx 6 and 8 cores are mostly good enough still.

BTW it would make sense to post what is inside your current rig.

This is my current system

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6VbkFd

[Rolling Potatoe]

6 minutes ago, Dodgeyou said:

This is my current system

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6VbkFd

No need to get a better PSU with that.

You can flip your cpu for maybe 20-30 $ and get a fx 6300 (50$) or a fx 8350 (80$) for that used.

The difference between the fx 6300 and the fx 4300 will probably be quite a bit higher than the difference between a fx 6300 and a 8350,

but hey its still more performance for only 30$.

Add a AIO liquid cooler or a 120mm fan tower cooler and overclock the new cpu to ~4.5, 

make sure you get good airflow over the motherboard though (add some fans if you have free slots).

I would also recommend at least a 120gb ssd as a boot drive, prices have come down and the difference 

huge.

BTW a fx 8350 performs similar to an i5 3570k in games, so its perfectly acceptable still.

[Dodgeyou]

23 hours ago, Rolling Potatoe said:

No need to get a better PSU with that.

You can flip your cpu for maybe 20-30 $ and get a fx 6300 (50$) or a fx 8350 (80$) for that used.

The difference between the fx 6300 and the fx 4300 will probably be quite a bit higher than the difference between a fx 6300 and a 8350,

but hey its still more performance for only 30$.

Add a AIO liquid cooler or a 120mm fan tower cooler and overclock the new cpu to ~4.5, 

make sure you get good airflow over the motherboard though (add some fans if you have free slots).

I would also recommend at least a 120gb ssd as a boot drive, prices have come down and the difference 

huge.

BTW a fx 8350 performs similar to an i5 3570k in games, so its perfectly acceptable still.

I'm getting a new PSU as the fan on this one is faultily and corsair would not replace it even though it was still in the warranty and I won't be getting an SSD anytime soon since my 2TB HDD(Which is my boot drive)has about 1.6TB worth of stuff on it and about 1TB of it being steam games and I don't feel like wiping the HDD and reinstalling all the games as for a 40GB game or so it takes around 2-3 days to complete