good pc to upgrade to?

[chosen]

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Chfmd6

AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor

 

 

Asus - PRIME B350-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard

 

 

Patriot - Viper Elite 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Patriot - Viper Elite 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory

 

Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5'' Solid State Drive

 

PowerColor - Radeon RX 580 8GB Red Devil Video Card
PowerColor - Radeon RX 580 8GB Red Devil Video Card

 

Corsair - SPEC-ALPHA (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case

 

Corsair - RMx 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

 

$1510.65

 

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

What's your budget, and what are you doing with this computer?

[knightslugger]

it's a good PC, but weather it's a good PC to upgrade TO depends on your use case...

[BluJay614]

I'd more recommend going with a 2x8GB kit of faster RAM, a single graphics card solution, and potentially a aftermarket cpu cooler.

[Guest]

If you want to upgrade this pc later on, I'd suggest 2 sticks of 8 gb, not 4x 4gb. You will occupy all your memory slots, which will force you to buy all new memory when you upgrade this stuff.

 

I consider myself an AMD fanboi, but I don't like ATI that much. So... Why do you want 2x an RX 580? Why not a 1070ti or above?

[Emberstone]

You'd be better off running a single graphics card instead of two simply because of game compatibility concerns (not everything likes Crossfire or SLI, and the number of things that do are getting slimmer and slimmer as time goes on). If you want to stick to AMD, you could grab a Vega 64 and be fine. On the Nvidia side, the 1070 Ti or 1080 are what I'd do at that price point.

 

Considering your obvious budget, I'd also grab a higher end motherboard as R7's tend to wear on B350 boards a bit except for a certain few just due to the power draw requirements. Grab something like an Asus Prime X370-Pro if you want something better, but not that much more expensive.

 

If you're primarily doing threaded work like video editing or 3D rendering, sticking with the R7 is a fine choice, but if you're primarily gaming you should grab an Intel chip due to their higher IPC and better clock speeds. Games like that more than raw thread count.

[jmack]

22 minutes ago, Emberstone said:

You'd be better off running a single graphics card instead of two simply because of game compatibility concerns

This! I cant agree more. SLI and Crossfire are dead for gaming, so unless you plan to mine, don't get two 580's. 

[TraskJ]

36 minutes ago, jmack said:

This! I cant agree more. SLI and Crossfire are dead for gaming, so unless you plan to mine, don't get two 580's. 

Maybe OP should go for a Vega if he wants to go AMD. Otherwise, for the price of two 580s, you could get at least a 1070ti right now, if not a 1080 or 1080ti on the right sale, which would absolutely annihilate the two 580s in pretty much anything. 

 

EDIT: Oh. Two other people already said this. Oops.