Where to go for next upgrades?

[BaronButtsie]

So this is my current Rig: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/FpvNNQ   

 

Looks a bit all over the show. I recently got that 1080 for £500 which i think was a good deal, given what the prices are at now. (My old card was an RX 470)

With this, i'm here to look for some advice on where to upgrade next. My first thoughts say the CPU or motherboard, but I'm not too sure.

I've got around £800-£900 to spare to make changes,( could I even make a completely new build?)

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[hconverse02]

Lol I can tell you that your cpu is bottlenecking a 1080 or is at least not living up to it.  Go ryzen and sell your cpu/mobo/cooler/ram as a combo on ebay or something, try selling it for £300-£400. I sold a system much worse a few months ago with only 8gb of ram and I made $300~£220.  Get a ryzen 5 1600, 16 gb of 3000 or 3200 mhz ram and a good b350 motherboard to go along OR wait for ryzen 2.0 OR upgrade to ryzen 2.0 when that comes out. 

EDIT: also buy another ssd, use it as a fast mass storage, get a mx300 500gb.

[Ezzy-525]

6 hours ago, hconverse02 said:

Get a ryzen 5 1600, 16 gb of 3000 or 3200 mhz ram and a good b350 motherboard to go along OR wait for ryzen 2.0 OR upgrade to ryzen 2.0 when that comes out. 

Just did this myself but with just 8GB of RAM for £260. So this upgrade in the UK with 16GB will cost around £360 (Inclusive of VAT and delivery).

[GoldenLag]

14 minutes ago, hconverse02 said:

Lol I can tell you that your cpu is bottlenecking a 1080 or is at least not living up to it.  Go ryzen and sell your cpu/mobo/cooler/ram as a combo on ebay or something, try selling it for £300-£400. I sold a system much worse a few months ago with only 8gb of ram and I made $300~£220.  Get a ryzen 5 1600, 16 gb of 3000 or 3200 mhz ram and a good b350 motherboard to go along OR wait for ryzen 2.0 OR upgrade to ryzen 2.0 when that comes out. 

EDIT: also buy another ssd, use it as a fast mass storage, get a mx300 500gb.

or 2700 if you want to do some obs streaming. because with that leftover budget you can go overboard and secure  a long lasting CPU and Mobo

[hconverse02]

Just now, GoldenLag said:

or 2700 if you want to do some obs streaming. because with that leftover budget you can go overboard and secure  a long lasting CPU and Mobo

Eh the 1600 is pretty great for streaming, id imagine the 2600 and 16gb of ram will be just as good if not better.  If it's in op's budget, wait for the 2700 instead.

[GoldenLag]

1 minute ago, hconverse02 said:

Eh the 1600 is pretty great for streaming, id imagine the 2600 and 16gb of ram will be just as good if not better.  If it's in op's budget, wait for the 2700 instead.

1600 is allready great for gaming and streaming, but judging by how the market is trending towards multi-threaded games, a 2700/1700 will last longer with their two extra cores and 4 extra threads. so there is nthing wrong with sticking to the 1600/2600 if since they are both really god options

[BaronButtsie]

2 hours ago, hconverse02 said:

Lol I can tell you that your cpu is bottlenecking a 1080 or is at least not living up to it.  Go ryzen and sell your cpu/mobo/cooler/ram as a combo on ebay or something, try selling it for £300-£400. I sold a system much worse a few months ago with only 8gb of ram and I made $300~£220.  Get a ryzen 5 1600, 16 gb of 3000 or 3200 mhz ram and a good b350 motherboard to go along OR wait for ryzen 2.0 OR upgrade to ryzen 2.0 when that comes out. 

EDIT: also buy another ssd, use it as a fast mass storage, get a mx300 500gb.

yea my cpu is is bottlenecking the 1080. Would something like the 8700k be something to consider as well from Intel's side?

 

I do have a 144hz monitor, so I'm not sure if Ryzen would reach them heights

[hconverse02]

1 hour ago, BaronButtsie said:

yea my cpu is is bottlenecking the 1080. Would something like the 8700k be something to consider as well from Intel's side?

 

I do have a 144hz monitor, so I'm not sure if Ryzen would reach them heights

If you want to spend the money on an 8700k, sure why not. A ryzen 7 or even 5 will keep up with a 1080. You could wait to upgrade to the 2xxx series ryzen 5 or 7 too. I wouldn’t get intel unless you want to spend the money, because we all know ice lake will make coffee lakes architecture dead again 

[BaronButtsie]

36 minutes ago, hconverse02 said:

If you want to spend the money on an 8700k, sure why not. A ryzen 7 or even 5 will keep up with a 1080. You could wait to upgrade to the 2xxx series ryzen 5 or 7 too. I wouldn’t get intel unless you want to spend the money, because we all know ice lake will make coffee lakes architecture dead again 

True. Yea Zen+ could be a thing to wait for, isn't it to be released next month?

[VEXICUS]

6 hours ago, BaronButtsie said:

So this is my current Rig: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/FpvNNQ   

 

Looks a bit all over the show. I recently got that 1080 for £500 which i think was a good deal, given what the prices are at now. (My old card was an RX 470)

With this, i'm here to look for some advice on where to upgrade next. My first thoughts say the CPU or motherboard, but I'm not too sure.

I've got around £800-£900 to spare to make changes,( could I even make a completely new build?)

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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REUSE UR OLD HARDWARE ND PURCHASE SOME NEW STUFF..

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor  (£289.96 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£95.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Asus - ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£192.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Storage: SK hynix - SL308 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Storage: Toshiba - 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Video Card: Inno3D - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Twin X2 Video Card  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Case: Aerocool - Aero-800 ATX Mid Tower Case  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit 
Monitor: AOC - G2460PF 24.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Monitor: AOC - G2460VQ6 24.0" 1920x1080 75Hz Monitor  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Keyboard: Corsair - Vengeance K70 Wired Gaming Keyboard  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Mouse: SteelSeries - Rival 100 Wired Optical Mouse  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Headphones: Kingston - HyperX Cloud II 7.1 Channel  Headset  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Total: £578.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-03-15 18:46 GMT+0000

 

JUST UPGRADED THE CPU ND MOBO ND COOLER IN UR EXISTING RIG...

U CAN EASILY SELL UR OLD CPU+MOBO COMBO FR ABOUT £150-200