Morgan Winters
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Hey folks, its been 6 years since I last upgraded my PC. While I don't feel I technically need to upgrade at the moment, I thought I would get other people who are more in the PC building world than I am to give me their thoughts on if I should upgrade my PC, wait for a few more months or if the components below are a decent choice. My current PC is OK for what I do but recently I've started doing more 2.7k and 4K video editing and my current computer, while just about able to handle it, its not the best. I also do a bit of C/C++/C# and Python coding as well as gaming, though mostly older/less intence, single player games such as Fallout 4, GTA5 Cyberpunk 2077, Train Simulator and Satisfactory.
Link to Overclockers cart if you need it: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cart/restore/fe1c1a776f088eae02b36f540fc33962
My personal data like my music, videos etc is stored on a seperate server so I don't need a high capacity HDD in this new PC.
As much as it pains me to say this, I want to avoid nVidia with this upgrade given their issues with the 50 series cards and the 12 HP connectors catching fire every 2 minutes, plus the ridiculous price of nVidia these days. I've never bought or used a ATI/AMD GPU so its time I gave them a try after having used nVidia for the last 25 years. I know AMD GPU's aren't as good at all this new ray tracing, upscaling BS but I don't really care about that, just want a GPU that can run all the games I currently have plus any game that comes out over the next 5ish years.
Ill be buying the parts from Overclockers as I always do but if y'all know of any new suppliers that give the same decent service as Overclockers, please let me know.
Let me know what y'all guys/gals think of the parts in my upgrade and please do give me suggestions on any of them if you have any.
Thanks for any feedback/help
Morgan
Current PC | New PC (What I'm thinking of getting) |
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 MSI X470 Gaming Plus Corsair Vengeance DDR 4 3200MHz 16Gb Gigibyte GTX 1070TI EVGA 750 PSU WD Black NVMe M.2 512 Gb SSD (OS Drive) WD Black 4Tb SATA HDD (Games Drive) Super Old Coolermaster CM690 nVidia Edition Case (I would love to keep this case but a modern GPU wouldn't fit in it) Philips 27" Flat 1080p 60Hz Monitor | AMD Ryzen 9 9950X MSI MPG X670E Motherboard XFX RX9070 OC Corsair Vengeance DDR 5 5200MHz 64Gb Asus ROC Strix 850 Platinum Plus PSU MSI MAG CoreLiquid i360 AIO WD Black NVMe M.2 Gen4 4Tb SSD LG 32" 32GS60QX Curved 1440p 180Hz Monitor Fractal Design Pop XL Air Full Tower Case |
My personal data like my music, videos etc is stored on a seperate server so I don't need a high capacity HDD in this new PC.
As much as it pains me to say this, I want to avoid nVidia with this upgrade given their issues with the 50 series cards and the 12 HP connectors catching fire every 2 minutes, plus the ridiculous price of nVidia these days. I've never bought or used a ATI/AMD GPU so its time I gave them a try after having used nVidia for the last 25 years. I know AMD GPU's aren't as good at all this new ray tracing, upscaling BS but I don't really care about that, just want a GPU that can run all the games I currently have plus any game that comes out over the next 5ish years.
Ill be buying the parts from Overclockers as I always do but if y'all know of any new suppliers that give the same decent service as Overclockers, please let me know.
Let me know what y'all guys/gals think of the parts in my upgrade and please do give me suggestions on any of them if you have any.
Thanks for any feedback/help
Morgan
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