Hey guys, looking for a little help as I’ve been out of the PC world for a few years. Curious what I should be looking at upgrading first. GPU or CPU? Would adding another 16gb of ram actually be noticeable? If GPU I am thinking 4070ti and reading that AMD processors are actually doing better vs intel so would most likely end up with a 7950x3d.
I currently run triple monitors each rendering their own screen at 1920x1080 on each.
Current specs:
8086k @ 5.0
1080ti stock
16gb ram
M.2 990pro
Thanks!
You have to upgrade both, and along with them the MB. So don’t invest in DDR4, get directly an AM5 MB with a 7800X3D (the 7950X3D is overkill and sometimes even slower) and 32 GB of DDR5-6000.
The 4070Ti is OK and you can keep the SSD.
Yeah, Stick with the 7800X3D, it’s faster than the 7950X (or anything else) thanks to the huge L3 Cache. Get that and 6000Mhz ~CL32 RAM with an EXPO profile and that’s the CPU side taken care of.
Then as much GPU as you can afford, really.
Yeah I know both need upgrading but as I don’t want to drop 2k in one shot which would have the biggest gains by just upgrading 1 of them and then the other down the line?
Normally I would say go CPU and RAM/Motherboard and PSU first but running three screens kinda muddies my opinion. If you do go AMD, RAM is very important but do not chase high clocks, low CL and Trc and stable 6k is what you want (as mentioned earlier).
As I ponder here there may only be one path, to upgrade to a 40 series card you may need to upgrade your power supply as well so assuming that it would be best to “build a nest” for the new card with your first upgrade.
Currently have a EVGA G2 850W 80 plus gold PSU.
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I would go with the GPU first as well due to the triple screens, though I’ve become more of an AMD fan and would go with a 7900XT or XTX for the extra VRAM. The XTX seems to trade blows with the 4080 and are generally a better value card unless you require NVIDIA specific features.
When time to go after the CPU, I also vote the 7800X3D. The 7950X3D has been known to have issues with core scheduling due to the two different CCD’s (one with and one without 3D V-cache), not to mention that it effectively turns into a 7800X3D when gaming. So unless you have other specific uses that would benefit from it, it’ll be an expensive overkill solution.