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Need some advice.
I want to upgrade my PC looking at whats available these days as i havent done an upgrade in a very long time.

Im currently running the following:

Intel core i7 7700 socket 1151 LGA
Asus prime Z270-P board
DDR4 24GB
NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti

Looking at something faster.
Any suggestions ?
Specifically need speed. Graphics, always nice to have something strong but not to break the bank.

Thanks
 
marine1 said:
Need some advice.
I want to upgrade my PC looking at whats available these days as i havent done an upgrade in a very long time.

Im currently running the following:

Intel core i7 7700 socket 1151 LGA
Asus prime Z270-P board
DDR4 24GB
NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti

Looking at something faster.
Any suggestions ?
Specifically need speed. Graphics, always nice to have something strong but not to break the bank.

Thanks
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But what is your budge, right now it is the worse possible time to be upgrading, 32gig of DDR5 ram is going to set you back a min of 8k or more pending the latency of the ram.

You already have DDR4, what you can do is upgrade to the last AM4 released CPU which would be leaps and bounds faster than the 7700k but you will be stuck on DDR4 again on a dead platform, less than ideal. if you are willing to fork out the 8grand for DDR5, you should at min get 32gig if you aren't planing to upgrade again and time soon. ram prices are going to be artificially high for a long long time still. best part the those am4 CPUs well the last generation released still support windows 11


So yeah, tell us what you want to do, AM4 is the cheapest route to keep your ram or do you want to shell out the cash for DDR5....

The alternative is getting an older DDR4 intel b760 board and a 12th 13th or 14th gen CPU, they might not be as fast as AM5 chips for gaming, but it is also a dead platform but at least you are on a much newer CPU generation that AM4.....
 
My last 3 upgrades have all been switching to Ryzen 3DX chips. For the price they smack Intel around in gaming.
But it does depend on what you can keep from your old system.
 
I am not sure if intel or AMD is a better solution, always had intel.
I am looking for something thats super fast specifically has USB C - maybe 2 ports that have high speed transfer.
Other than that not really sure what other specs I would need? WIFI ready, maybe WIFI6 onboard?
I would need to then upgrade the CPU of course, as for RAM, I did not realise its so damn high, but for now I dont need to have 32gigs I think? Always can upgrade later? As for the GPU I could use the current one I guess?
 
marine1 said:
Specifically need speed.
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If you're running dodgy servers or something that you don't want to tell us it's fine. But it would help to know what you use your pc for that you need speed. Details etc.
 
saor said:
If you're running dodgy servers or something that you don't want to tell us it's fine. But it would help to know what you use your pc for that you need speed. Details etc.
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Work, but I want speed and something i wont have to upgrade anytime soon.
I need speed, I also watch a lot of media on the machine, streaming stuff.
 
marine1 said:
Need some advice.
I want to upgrade my PC looking at whats available these days as i havent done an upgrade in a very long time.

Im currently running the following:

Intel core i7 7700 socket 1151 LGA
Asus prime Z270-P board
DDR4 24GB
NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti

Looking at something faster.
Any suggestions ?
Specifically need speed. Graphics, always nice to have something strong but not to break the bank.

Thanks
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Laptop or desktop? If Laptop, how important is battery time?
 
marine1 said:
I am not sure if intel or AMD is a better solution, always had intel.
I am looking for something thats super fast specifically has USB C - maybe 2 ports that have high speed transfer.
Other than that not really sure what other specs I would need? WIFI ready, maybe WIFI6 onboard?
I would need to then upgrade the CPU of course, as for RAM, I did not realise its so damn high, but for now I dont need to have 32gigs I think? Always can upgrade later? As for the GPU I could use the current one I guess?
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Yeah you really picked a bad time to be upgrading, windows 11 is quite ram hungry.

At idle just with firefox open I am using 6gig memory, 16gig is the bare min, but 32gig is really the sweet spot.

Look I am going to be honest, AMD is better for gaming, but the performance difference isn't so much that intel is completely lost, the frame rate difference is often in the single digit % difference in most games.

If you go intel, and pick a core 5 or core ultra 255 they do have a smaller cache, more ram absolutely makes a difference here and offsets the smaller cache a lot. Intel does perform better in multi core, productivity most popular apps are still heavily skewed towards intel.

If you only doing gaming then AMD, if only productivity intel is still the way to go especially for decoding/encoding. People clown on intel but the performance difference in gaming, is not that drastic as the internet wants you to believe.

Honestly 7700k is still plenty good, there is actually no good reason to upgrade, windows 10 is still very much supported, and it will be awhile still before you will hit some obvious roads blocks with it. Sure it will struggle with current titles a fair bit, but it doesn't seem like you are the preorder guy anyways you generally wait till something goes on special ?

Whatever option you choose to reuse your current DDR4 is going to be a dead platform either way. I wouldn't recommend biting the DDR5 bullet. We might start seeing movement on pricing end or late next year, nothing is a given, it isn't worth waiting for AM6 either as early adopter pricing is going to be insane.

Overall just a really bad time to considering an upgrade.

32gig with windows 11 and modern titles is pretty much a must, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
 
marine1 said:
I am not sure if intel or AMD is a better solution, always had intel.
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AMD is currently king of the hill.
marine1 said:
I need speed, I also watch a lot of media on the machine, streaming stuff.
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Lol. You don't need speed for that. Just stick to what you have if it works.

But if I was in your situation and had to buy, I would just get an AM4 system. Sure, it's EOL but unless you're running local AI or want bleeding edge graphics you're likely to be good with an AM4 board and a 5800x3d for a couple more years. Then once all this ram nonsense is over you can flip it and get a DDR5 system or something newer.

If you don't have to buy, wait 6-12 months. Hopefully the AI bubble will pop by then.
 
marine1 said:
specifically has USB C
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Always the expansion card option on what you have to kill that issue.
A lot of browser tabs open eats a ton of ram if your not aware.
Add a PCIe card & some extra ram & maybe problem solved.

Performance part of task manager may yield some clues if your seeing issues.
 
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