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Advice on upgrade path?

VikingAesir
By VikingAesir
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Hello friends!

 

Long time lurker first time poster. I'm hoping you clever peoples could help weigh in on a potential upgrade for my system. I stream and Game a lot and I just feel like I've hit the ceiling on my current system in this respect. I didn't win the silicon lottery either as I can only manage an overclock of about 4.1 GHz out of the ol' 4770K. If I were to upgrade I only have a budget of $1000AUD.

 

My current PC is as follows:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-4770K 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor 
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i 77 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler 
Motherboard: Asus - Sabertooth Z87 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard 
Memory: G.Skill - Sniper Series 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1866 Memory 
Memory: G.Skill - Sniper Series 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1866 Memory 
Storage: Samsung - 840 EVO 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card 
Case: Cooler Master - Storm Trooper ATX Full Tower Case 
Power Supply: Corsair - Professional 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply 
Total: $0.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-18 14:04 AEDT+1100

I run a dual screen setup which is an ROG 144hz 1080P screen and a ASUS 1080P60 screen. I was running a QNIX 1440P @ 100Hz but i dropped down to get extra frames whilst streaming and I stream at 1080P any hows.

 

I was thinking a CPU/MOBO/RAM swap and integrating my other components:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($449.00 @ PCCaseGear) 
Motherboard: MSI - MPG Z390 GAMING PLUS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($249.00 @ PCCaseGear) 
Memory: Kingston - FURY 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($199.00 @ PCCaseGear) 
Total: $897.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-18 14:04 AEDT+1100

Or do I keep running with the haswell and try for a bigger GPU?

 

1080TI - Hard to find these bad boys new but I found a Gigabyte option for $1300AUD second hand is around $850AUD-$1100AUD from what I've found so far. Is it going to be much of game changer over a GTX1080?

RTX2070 - $829AUD-$1200AUD going by benchmarks and Linus's recent video the performance will be negligible over my GTX1080

RTX2080 - $1199AUD-$1500AUD just out of my budget but I could wait a touch to aim for one of these

RTX2080TI - $2200AUD Filthy expensive and not an option for me.

 

What would you do??? Am I being to impatient???

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I don't have a good suggestion for your upgrade. But I just found a discounted G Skill ram on newegg. Could save $20AUD on that. Here's the link: https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100204430 601190328 601275375 600561669

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $545.83 @ Amazon Australia
Motherboard ASRock - Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $228.00 @ Umart
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $773.83
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-18 14:38 AEDT+1100  

and this set of memory

https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820158580

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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