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Celach
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Hello, later this year i am going to be travelling to europe where prices of pc hardware are considerably cheaper than where i live, so i was planning on upgrading my pc, if necessary.

 

My current specs are:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor $188.90 @ OutletPC
Motherboard MSI - B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $64.99 @ Amazon
Memory Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory $87.89 @ OutletPC
Storage SanDisk - SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $59.87 @ Amazon
Storage Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $46.49 @ OutletPC
Video Card EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card $879.99 @ Newegg Marketplace
Case Cougar - MX500 ATX Mid Tower Case $54.98 @ Newegg Marketplace
Power Supply EVGA - 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $48.89 @ OutletPC
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $1442.00
  Mail-in rebates -$10.00
  Total $1432.00
 

Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-02-21 10:20 EST-0500

 

the only component i was thinking of upgrading atm was a higher capacity ssd and my ryzen 5 1600 for an i7 8700k, but not sure if the gaming performance jump is high.

Main games i play are csgo, r6 siege, pubg, fortnite, ow, gta v and league atm but im starting to play AAA games.

 

i use my pc only for gaming on 1080p and 144hz when possible, and dont have any plans of upgrading to 1440p any time soon, at least until i upgrade my gpu which wont happen for a long time.

 

my budget is around 1k USD

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1 minute ago, Celach said:

Hello, later this year i am going to be travelling to europe where prices of pc hardware are considerably cheaper than where i live, so i was planning on upgrading my pc, if necessary.

 

My current specs are:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor $188.90 @ OutletPC
Motherboard MSI - B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $64.99 @ Amazon
Memory Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory $87.89 @ OutletPC
Storage SanDisk - SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $59.87 @ Amazon
Storage Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $46.49 @ OutletPC
Video Card EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card $879.99 @ Newegg Marketplace
Case Cougar - MX500 ATX Mid Tower Case $54.98 @ Newegg Marketplace
Power Supply EVGA - 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $48.89 @ OutletPC
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $1442.00
  Mail-in rebates -$10.00
  Total $1432.00
 

Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-02-21 10:20 EST-0500

 

the only component i was thinking of upgrading atm was a higher capacity ssd and my ryzen 5 1600 for an i7 8700k, but not sure if the gaming performance jump is high.

Main games i play are csgo, r6 siege, pubg, fortnite, ow, gta v and league atm but im starting to play AAA games.

 

i use my pc only for gaming on 1080p and 144hz when possible, and dont have any plans of upgrading to 1440p any time soon, at least until i upgrade my gpu which wont happen for a long time.

 

my budget is around 1k USD

Get more ram

get an M.2

get larger ssd

better psu, 80+silver

idk what you should do with the rest of the money

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16GB DDR4 2666-3000MHz RAM (multiple sticks),

 

550w-650w tier 1 or 2 PSU (https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/631048-psu-tier-list-updated/) 80+ Gold preferably,

 

240-500GB SSD (SATA ones would suffice, only slower than NVMe in mass file transfers and editing/simulation).

 

8600k, Z370 mobo and good cooler (tier 1-3 will do https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/891730-cpu-cooler-performance-tier-list/) No need for 8700k since hyperthreading isn't that useful for a 6 core CPU in games

 

 

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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13 minutes ago, Celach said:

Hello, later this year i am going to be travelling to europe where prices of pc hardware are considerably cheaper than where i live, so i was planning on upgrading my pc, if necessary.

 

My current specs are:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor $188.90 @ OutletPC
Motherboard MSI - B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $64.99 @ Amazon
Memory Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory $87.89 @ OutletPC
Storage SanDisk - SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $59.87 @ Amazon
Storage Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $46.49 @ OutletPC
Video Card EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card $879.99 @ Newegg Marketplace
Case Cougar - MX500 ATX Mid Tower Case $54.98 @ Newegg Marketplace
Power Supply EVGA - 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $48.89 @ OutletPC
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $1442.00
  Mail-in rebates -$10.00
  Total $1432.00
 

Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-02-21 10:20 EST-0500

 

the only component i was thinking of upgrading atm was a higher capacity ssd and my ryzen 5 1600 for an i7 8700k, but not sure if the gaming performance jump is high.

Main games i play are csgo, r6 siege, pubg, fortnite, ow, gta v and league atm but im starting to play AAA games.

 

i use my pc only for gaming on 1080p and 144hz when possible, and dont have any plans of upgrading to 1440p any time soon, at least until i upgrade my gpu which wont happen for a long time.

 

my budget is around 1k USD

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qYKHxG

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4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

16GB DDR4 2666-3000MHz RAM (multiple sticks),

 

550w-650w tier 1 or 2 PSU (https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/631048-psu-tier-list-updated/) 80+ Gold preferably,

 

240-500GB SSD (SATA ones would suffice, Tier list for SSD's: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/762237-droidbots-sata3-ssd-tier-list/ )

 

8600k, Z370 mobo and good cooler (tier 1-3 will do https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/891730-cpu-cooler-performance-tier-list/) No need for 8700k since hyperthreading isn't that useful for a 6 core CPU in games

Added the SSD tier list :) 

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5 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Added the SSD tier list :) 

It's outdated. Samsung 860 evo and Crucial MX500 SSDs are out but not listed.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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