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Rickkerd
By Rickkerd
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Hey guys!

 

I think its time to upgrade my pc again!
Im thinking to spend 600,- euro on it.

 

At first I wanted to upgrade my MOBO, CPU and CPU Cooler.
But a friend told me its not worth it.

I'm just a gamer that plays game like PUBG, Rocket League, Fortnite, ARK Survival Evolved, Call of Duty WWII and FIFA 18.
Also I wanna play F1 2019.
 

The upgrades I wanted:
MOBO - MSI Z370 GAMING M5
CPU - Intel Core i7-8700k
CPU Cooler - NZXT Kraken X52 AM4 ready

My Specs now:

Case - Sharkoon M25-W 7.1 Black ATX
MOBO - Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming
CPU - Intel Core i7-7700
CPU Cooler - be quiet! Pure Rock
GPU - GALAX GeForce GTX 970 Hall Of Fame
RAM - Ballistix 16 GB DDR4-2666
PSU - Sharkoon WPM700 Bronze, 700 Watt
SSD - Samsung SSD 840 Series - 120 GB
HDD - 2TB

 

Suggestions now:
PSU - CORSAIR RMx Series RM650x (80 plus Gold, 650 W)
GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Gaming 8G

 

Maybe you guys can help me out!

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Rick

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2 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

I agree with your friend. If anything, I'd upgrade the PSU and GPU maybe. 

Why the PSU? Is 700W not enough?

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5 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

Wattage isn't the issue, quality is. 

100% agree. i learned that the hard way.

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Not worth it indeed. None of these games are that CPU-heavy.

 

1 minute ago, Rickkerd said:

Why the PSU? Its not enough 700W?

Quality problems. While I dont have reviews that can show it's bad directly, the 40C max operating temperature (good ones do 50C) is suspicious.

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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So if I upgrade my PSU to a CORSAIR RMx Series RM650x (80 plus Gold 650W) my PSU will be fine?

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5 minutes ago, Rickkerd said:

So if I upgrade my PSU to a CORSAIR RMx Series RM650x (80 plus Gold 650W) my PSU will be fine?

Wouldn't even have to be that far, but yeah. 

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1 minute ago, Starelementpoke said:

Wouldn't even have to be that far, but yeah. 

Well if im gonna upgrade I wanna do it good!
But for GPU what would you advice to buy for like 500/600 euro's?
Maybe a 1080, 1070ti or 1070?

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10 minutes ago, Rickkerd said:

Well if im gonna upgrade I wanna do it good!
But for GPU what would you advice to buy for like 500/600 euro's?
Maybe a 1080, 1070ti or 1070?

Buy a new Gpu e.g 1070ti/1080, vega 56 

And maybe upgrade psu, depends if the psu is high quality or not.

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2 hours ago, Rickkerd said:

So if I upgrade my PSU to a CORSAIR RMx Series RM650x (80 plus Gold 650W) my PSU will be fine?

a SeaSonic Focus Plus Gold 650W unit will be just fine, no need to go that far actually

"Make it future proof for some years at least, don't buy "only slightly better" stuff that gets outdated 1 year, that's throwing money away" @pipoawas

 

-Frequencies DON'T represent everything and in many cases that is true (referring to Individual CPU Clocks).

 

Mention me if you want to summon me sooner or later

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My head on 2019 :

Note 10, S10, Samsung becomes Apple, Zen 2, 3700X, Renegade X lol

 

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