Looking for suggestions for a new PC - Budget of around £2000-£2500GBP

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.

Current PCNew 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
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
 
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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 about 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.

Current PCNew 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
WD Black 4Tb SATA HDD
Super Old Coolermaster CM690 nVidia Edition Case
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
The other option is to upgrade the CPU, RAM, GPU and monitor and spend the budget you wouldve spent on a new platform to upgrading to something like the Ryzen 5800X3D with a 4090 and along with fast DDR4 64GB and a 4K monitor. I haven't done the numbers but I reckon for what you're doing (especially if you're using the mercury engine for encoding) you'd get a much faster machine for your needs for about the same budget? Even if you drop down a tier in the GPU.
 
The other option is to upgrade the CPU, RAM, GPU and monitor and spend the budget you wouldve spent on a new platform to upgrading to something like the Ryzen 5800X3D with a 4090 and along with fast DDR4 64GB and a 4K monitor. I haven't done the numbers but I reckon for what you're doing (especially if you're using the mercury engine for encoding) you'd get a much faster machine for your needs for about the same budget? Even if you drop down a tier in the GPU.
I did look at a 4090 a couple of months ago, the issue is that they are both at least £2000 and out of stock on Overclockers as I don't believe they are made anymore. I need/want to buy a new GPU and not used, I not only don't trust sellers enough to buy something like that used, but also my PC is on for 16-18 hours per day, every day so I want something new that will do that for the next 5 years. I totally see what your saying about upgrading rather than going for a new platform but I want to do a full upgrade.

Edit: I should add that my budget is flexible, I can add a 4K monitor instead of the 1440p. I'm just so used to looking at a 1080p monitor so 1440p would be a decent jump. But I'm opening to going straight to 4K if y'all think its worth it.
 
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You should definitely get a DDR5-6000 kit if you can. Specifically ones that use the SK Hynix dies. There is a significant sweet spot in performance at those speeds until you start pushing single rank kits to 8000.
 
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