Itching to upgrade something, but what?
Itching to upgrade something, but what?
This is mostly just for discussion, but this is my PC's current state. I do want to do a full custom watercooled setup sometime but I'm wondering if anything is screaming out "upgrade me, I'm old". I mostly game and do CAD design/3D printing. Some photoshop and After Effects work every now and then. What would you upgrade?
What games?
Honestly unless your seeing performance issues, I'd just keep the cash and buy more games.
But you ou could go to a 5800x3d on the same mb/ram. It'd be a drop in cores, but depending on the games it could be beneficial.
Or upgrade cpu/ram/mb to the newest gen
Nah, no issues. This was mostly just for discussion really. I guess I could have worded it better. Like "This is my setup, if you had it and wanted to upgrade something, what would be first?".
I mostly play single player story stuff. Right now playing Breath of the Wild on Cemu. But usually stuff like Fallout, Tomb Raider, Sony's games, Resident Evil, and VR on a Valve Index.
I do feel like cpu/mb/ram would be the thing to upgrade next, but I'd probably do that later. I'm probably going to end up doing water cooling the more I think of it.
Yeah that's the only thing on the list that I could see a possible improvement in performance in. I'm waiting on a good price for an x3d and I'm coming from an 5600x. Outside of that there won't be much of an improvement anywhere.
Oh, if there's a r/buildapc type community I should post this in, then please let me know. Thanks!
There is a couple of buildapc subs, but they are not very active yet. https://lemmy.one/post/17459 has a good list to wade through and the one listed are:
From what you have 5800x3d is all I would add. That would put you close to what I have. I use a 5950 along with 3800mhz memory, which leaves not much init. I am waiting for Ryzen 5 release before I consider my next update. Early indications are that it will be a tasty piece of kit, but wait for reviews as ever.
https://lemmy.one/post/17459 has a good list to wade through
Oh, awesome, thanks for that! I was looking at the 5800x3d, but it looks like a downgrade to me. Am I missing something? Is the single stacked L3 cache that big of an improvement still even with less cores and lower clock speed?
I'm bump up the RAM to 64GB. It's somewhat overkill for most cases but you somewhat future-proof your device more. Also, if you have any interest in AI you can easily run some of the open-source large language models pretty comfortably on the CPU with 64GB of RAM (see llama.cpp program).
OOh, now there's an idea. I'm always looking for new things to play around with. Thanks!
I mean, if you want to future proof you could go with ddr5 ram but then you would need to change your motherboard and a bunch of other stuff I imagine.
To be clear you can probably already run some medium-sized models on 32GB using llama.cpp, as it's been optimized a ton in the past few months - but I know that early on some models were eating up 48GB of my RAM.
@canthidium For me looks good. Probably I'll upgrade that HDD for some SSDs.
Nowadays SSDs last longer than hard drives due to TRIM.
You should check the Asus Hyper or any kind of SSD M.2 adapter to PCIe.Eh it's just a storage drive. I've got the 2tb ssd in as my main drive but yeah, I'd probably upgrade both sooner than later.
Nothing is screaming out to be upgraded, personally I went for 64GB of RAM since I do a lot of flight and racing sims which can be very RAM intensive (I’m looking at you DCS). But it’s still probably overkill to be honest
Yeah, that's how I feel. Nothing is screaming to be upgraded. And it's a workhorse now with no issues knock on wood. Just curious what others thought and I'm just wanting to do something to it, haha. Thanks!