Recommendations on upgrades

[Circut]

Hey all,

 

I am planning on upgrading my PC soon and was wanting some recommendations. As far as usage, I use it as a gaming rig for VR. Aside from VR I mainly play non-graphically intensive game sure as World of Warcraft and League of Legends. I don't do video rendering or any workstation type tasks but my ram usually runs at 80% or so. As far as displays go I don't have a need for anything higher than 60fps or 1080p. I assume i should upgrade other parts before i get crazy with monitors. My main question is, should I upgrade ram/Mobo or CPU/Mobo. I could do both but I could get better upgrades splitting it up. As far as budget goes I would be looking for a sub 300$ CPU if my CPU should come next and the same budget for ran/Mobo. If there is something that I am leaving out or upgrades that I didn't consider please let me know. Thanks in advance!

 

I've attached a scrubbed version of a dxdiag dump. Let me know if more info is needed.

 

System Manufacturer: MSI
 System Model: MS-7752
                     BIOS: V2.10 (type: UEFI)
                Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.9GHz
                   Memory: 8192MB RAM
      Available OS Memory: 8140MB RAM
                Page File: 9418MB used, 18177MB available

Video card: Nvidia Gforce GTX 1070

      Drive: C:
 Free Space: 24.5 GB
Total Space: 237.9 GB
File System: NTFS
      Model: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB

      Drive: D:
 Free Space: 184.3 GB
Total Space: 228.9 GB
File System: NTFS
      Model: ZOTAC ZTSSD-A5P-240G

      Drive: E:
 Free Space: 854.8 GB
Total Space: 937.3 GB
File System: NTFS
      Model: ST1000DM003-1CH162

 

 

 

[NelizMastr]

You can't just upgrade the RAM and the board as you'd be stuck with the same basic setup. Upgrading the CPU and board will net you a Haswell system which is barely better than what you've got now. It's either a full upgrade, so CPU, RAM and board, or stick with the current stuff and save up until you replace everything at once. The GPU, SSD and harddisk are all good enough. I'm missing the PSU from this list though. If it's from 2011/2012 like your board/CPU then it's time to replace that too.

 

You'd be looking at these kinds of prices and parts:

 

AMD:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor  ($189.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($75.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($165.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $501.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-15 08:35 EDT-0400  NOTE: I'd wait for the B450 boards to launch if you go 2nd gen Ryzen.

 

Intel:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor  ($178.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock - B360 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($87.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($154.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $491.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-15 08:38 EDT-0400

[Circut]

1 minute ago, NelizMastr said:

You can't just upgrade the RAM and the board as you'd be stuck with the same basic setup. Upgrading the CPU and board will net you a Haswell system which is barely better than what you've got now. It's either a full upgrade, so CPU, RAM and board, or stick with the current stuff and save up until you replace everything at once. The GPU, SSD and harddisk are all good enough. I'm missing the PSU from this list though. If it's from 2011/2012 like your board/CPU then it's time to replace that too.

 

You'd be looking at these kinds of prices and parts:

 

AMD:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor  ($189.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($75.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($165.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $501.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-15 08:35 EDT-0400  NOTE: I'd wait for the B450 boards to launch if you go 2nd gen Ryzen.

 

Intel:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor  ($178.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock - B360 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($87.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  ($154.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $491.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-15 08:38 EDT-0400

Yes it is the same psu from the old system. And thank you for the ideas. Is the difference between the intel and the amd mainly preference? 

[AskTJ]

5 minutes ago, Circut said:

Yes it is the same psu from the old system. And thank you for the ideas. Is the difference between the intel and the amd mainly preference? 

Intel is better for gaming, while Ryzen for rendering and processing.