New PC Build Specification
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New PC Build Specification
My current desktop PC was self built in 2012 and still works fine using the latest version of Windows 10. The key components are shown below:
Intel i5-3570K CPU & 16 GB RAM
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H motherboard
Intel 520 180GB SSD system drive (SATA)
Nvidia RTX 2060 Super GPU
I would need to upgrade the CPU, motherboard, memory and SSD (to a NVME interface). I normally spend up to £200 on a new CPU and £150 on a new motherboard. What are the recommend best components these days in that price range and realistically how much faster would a new build PC be?
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Post a link to the source or sources from which you will buy the parts so we can see what choices you have.
State an absolute maximum for your budget.
Do you need ONLY those 4 parts: board, cpu, RAM, NVMe SSD?
What size NVMe?
How much RAM?
The 3570 with an SSD and 16 gb RAM is not a weakling,
No one but you knows how much faster a new machine would have to be for you not to be disappointed.
For many or maybe most operations, like posting on this forum, you'll never notice the difference.
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That's not bad hardware at all. You might consider just getting a nice new case. Just throwing that out there because I have done that myself in the past.
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That's not bad hardware at all. You might consider just getting a nice new case. Just throwing that out there because I have done that myself in the past.
I already have a super case - a Nanoxia Deep Silence 1.
I'm just looking at the costs / benefits of upgrading. I've already worked out AMD Ryzen CPUs now offer the best performance for the price and will need to upgrade to someting like one of these CPUs to see a worhwhile CPU speed improvement of at at least x5 over my current i5-3570K.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
These CPUs are at least double the cost I was expecting to pay which is somewhat off putting.
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Post a link to the source or sources from which you will buy the parts so we can see what choices you have.
State an absolute maximum for your budget.
Do you need ONLY those 4 parts: board, cpu, RAM, NVMe SSD?
What size NVMe?
How much RAM?
The 3570 with an SSD and 16 gb RAM is not a weakling,
No one but you knows how much faster a new machine would have to be for you not to be disappointed.
For many or maybe most operations, like posting on this forum, you'll never notice the difference.
Those are the main parts since I have various drives and a good EVGA PSU & case which can be reused. A fast NVMe SSD would be needed for the boot drive. 256 GB would be more than sufficient. I have other SSD and hard drives for data storage.
16 GB memory works fine at the moment unless Windows 10 becomes more demanding for some reason.
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AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
These CPUs are at least double the cost I was expecting to pay which is somewhat off putting.
Yes, those are great CPU's. I've been on the hunt for a month trying to get a 5900/5950 myself. Not only are they more than you were budgeting for, but they are also pretty much impossible to find.
Honestly, booting off an NVMe SSD doesn't make a huge difference. Raw throughput is what they are great at, so if you are copying huge files from 1 drive to the other and you do it very often, they are wonderful. I personally find the fact that they don't require a power cable and data cable to be the best and worst things about them. They are great from a clean wiring standpoint. But if you are like me and you like to test out wacky things by tossing in a different drive and loading a different OS, they are a pain to work with as they are screwed down and under the video card.
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Yes, those are great CPU's. I've been on the hunt for a month trying to get a 5900/5950 myself. Not only are they more than you were budgeting for, but they are also pretty much impossible to find.
Honestly, booting off an NVMe SSD doesn't make a huge difference. Raw throughput is what they are great at, so if you are copying huge files from 1 drive to the other and you do it very often, they are wonderful. I personally find the fact that they don't require a power cable and data cable to be the best and worst things about them. They are great from a clean wiring standpoint. But if you are like me and you like to test out wacky things by tossing in a different drive and loading a different OS, they are a pain to work with as they are screwed down and under the video card.
I noted the 5900X was only released in November. Perhaps the stock will improve in the coming weeks?
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Honestly, booting off an NVMe SSD doesn't make a huge difference. Raw throughput is what they are great at, so if you are copying huge files from 1 drive to the other and you do it very often, they are wonderful.
I will agree with that. In real world performance, you likely won't be able to tell he difference between a SATA 3 SSD and NVMe.
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