Looking for Upgrade Advice for my PC (7700K w/ 2080Ti)

LBHolyCow on 21/11/2021 - 02:36

Hey guys, so I've been wanting to upgrade my CPU and motherboard for quite a while now, but I'm not exactly on the ball with newer generations of CPU. Also had to replace my PSU this month since previous one died.

My current specs are:
i7 7700K (not OC'd due to mobo)
ASRock H270
GALAX 2080Ti SG
Cosair RM850x PSU
32GB(4x8) of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz C16 (capped at 2400 Mhz due to mobo)
A few SSDs (NVMe M.2 and 2.5")

I currently game on a 144hz 1440p monitor, but also have a 4K 60hz monitor that I occasionally use for less compeitive games like Forza Horizion 5 or Assetto Corsa. I'm also a VR user and occasionaly do light video editing and rendering, messing around in Blender and Unity.

I was wondering with the current generation of CPUs out right now, is it a good time for me to upgrade my 7700K? Should I hold onto it a bit longer? Perhaps I could consider buying previous generation of CPUs with the upcoming Black Friday sales instead of the latest?

I'm fine with spending probably around 1-1.5k upgrading my CPU, motherboard and whatever else needs to be replaced. My biggest issue is the performance increase compared to the price to upgrade and adopt a new CPU/motherboard generation. If you guys could provide me with some suggestions on what to do, or what I should upgrade to, that would be much appreciated.

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Comments

  • lifeisawesome on 21/11/2021 - 02:49
    +5

    imo, if current setup can fulfill your needs, stay put. save up the stash for a better upgrade or other purchase.
    Re-check your desire to upgrade when there is a big leap of needs where your current setup can't deliver a smooth user experience.
    By then, CPU and MOBO can be changed, the rest looking good to be reused. Only change GPU when price goes down.
    Deal happens not only during black friday, retail will find any chance to bring up a deal throughout the year, so it isn't a rush to upgrade.

    • BHolyCow on 21/11/2021 - 14:14

      To be honest, it's hard to tell sometimes when all the new games are unoptimized pieces of hot garbage (looks at BF2042). After reading the other comments, perhaps it is best to wait another year, 12th gen Intel seems quite promising, but Windows 11 and DDR5 still quite new and needs to get it's kinks ironed out first, not to mention the price of the motherboard and DDR5 ram is ridiculous.

  • Hybroid on 21/11/2021 - 03:35
    +3

    You don't need to update from a 7700K yet. An 11700K is about 20-30% better performance on average, that isn't worth the cost outlay esp when most games aren't CPU-bound and may not see that large an increase in performance anyway. Save the 1.5k for future to upgrade parts incl GPU when market stabilises and 12th gen Intel chips & RTX4000 series are out.

    • BHolyCow on 21/11/2021 - 04:29

      I thought 12th gen Intel were already out?

      • Namidairo on 21/11/2021 - 07:35

        12th gen is indeed out, but the pricing is well within "early adopter" territory. In addition, they would have to seek out a DDR4 board variant in order to reuse their memory.

        They'd also probably have to upgrade to 11 if they haven't already, since I think the Windows 10 scheduling is not really designed to handle the performance/efficiency cores.

        In addition to some minor compatibility issues regarding a small set of games and DRM.

        I suspect that getting onto a 5600x and B550 board might be of some benefit, while not breaking the budget too badly.

  • QuickdraW on 21/11/2021 - 08:00
    -1

    I would just replace m/b, should be able to get a high end version for a reasonable price due to age.

  • Thunder-Wombat on 21/11/2021 - 08:04

    I just upgrade my rig to 12th gen as I found the cost comparison to go for a ryzen 5900 to be almost similar in what I wanted to upgrade

    Got the i7 127900k for 639
    Aorus Pro DDR5 MOBO for 520
    32gb of ddr5 for 320

  • TheBird on 21/11/2021 - 10:23

    Are you having performance or stability issues with your current setup?

    If not, I'd consider waiting until end of next year for when 13th gen+40x series are out and the Windows 11 kinks are more sorted out, if not a little after that. It seems to be a bit of an odd time to buy a machine right now.

    Perhaps I could consider buying previous generation of CPUs with the upcoming Black Friday sales instead of the latest?
    Unless you only need a potato for a machine, I wouldn't. 11th to 12th is one of the biggest performance/tech upticks we've seen in a long, long while.

    • AndyC1 on 21/11/2021 - 11:50

      100% agree if you can wait as the chip shortage is keeping prices high and Windows 11 insiders release notes are not very nice to read w.r.t. fixing bugs left & right in each release that are in the RTM/Gold release…..

      I upgraded two months ago from an i7-6700 to a AMD 5700G as I needed the speed improvement and more memory for development purposes. Luckily I do not play high end games, so I did not need a GPU.

    • BHolyCow on 21/11/2021 - 14:18

      Yeah I'm not exactly happy with my gaming performance sometimes, struggle to get 100FPS in some games or has lots of stutters and FPS drops. Though I will admit those games usually are not very optimized like Escape from Tarkov or currently BF2042. But I think I will stick to your advice and wait a little longer.

      • TheBird on 21/11/2021 - 23:11

        What's the cause of the caps? Are those games CPU bound or GPU bound? If it's the later, a cpu upgrade is unlikely to yield any improvement without dropping a bundle on a GPU upgrade. If you're CPU bound or bound by bus/memory speed, then 12th gen will likely improve performance for you. Who knows, you might be thermal bound.

        What kind of FPS were you expecting? Were there any reasons for this expectation?

  • BHolyCow on 21/11/2021 - 23:30

    Both CPU intensive games, in BF2042 my CPU usage is capped out, but the GPU is only hitting 40-70%. As for thermals, they seem pretty fine, GPU at 70C and CPU at 50C when under load. My FPS expectations, I'm always wanting at least 100FPS+ because I have a 144Hz monitor, so when a game's performance is closer to something like 60 or 70FPS it feels quite laggy and slow.

    • solidussnake on 22/11/2021 - 07:55

      Those two games are horribly optimised, BF2042 should be patched soon enough as even 3080s are struggling to hit 70 fps on high, it's still a very decent system I would hold onto it like others have said !

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