Hi everyone, My current system is starting to show some signs of age (almost 5 years old now). It's served me brilliantly in all this time and boy am I glad I made the jump from Intel to AMD back then. The specs are below and I'm looking at either upgrading the CPU & GPU or maybe replacing the 4 components underlined. I'm open to suggestions if you guys think I'm not spending correctly. Current system: MB = MSI X470 GAMING PRO CARBON AM4 CPU= Ryzen 2700X M2 = Samsung 970 EVO V-NAND M.2 500GB (OS) M2 = Kingston NV2 NVMe 2TB M.2 2 x 4K Monitors (3840 x 2160) Case = Phanteks Enthoo Pro GPU = MSI GeForce RTX 2070 ARMOR OC RAM = Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x16GB 2666MHz SSD = Crucial MX500 1TB SSD PS = Silverstone Strider Gold S 750 W 80+ Primary use: Adobe After Effects (Motion Graphics) Cinema 4D (3D Modelling) Vegas Pro (Video Editing) Secondary and occassional use: Gaming SQL Server Express (for work related stuff) Oracle VM Box (dummy throw away VMs) Budget: £600-£1200 (If I go to the upper limit it needs to be future proof for at least 3-4 years) Profit from reselling (estimates based on ebay prices) = approx £200 Option 1 - Keep current system and upgrade CPU and GPU (£850ish): CPU maybe something like the 5800x or even 5900x GPU maybe something like the 4070 Option 2 - Replace MB, CPU, GPU & RAM £1280: MB - MSI Carbon = £260 CPU - Ryzen 7700 or 7700X = £350 GPU - MSI 4070 = £580 RAM - Corsair DDR5 5200MHZ = £90 I am leaning more towards option 1, but that's primarily because then I can upgrade everything in 2 or so years.
Depends on how important gaming is. In non-gaming workloads, it is actually a little slower than and, also costs more than the 5800X, which in my experience, is plenty fast. When I fitted my 5800X, it was a substantial step up from the 2700.
Either a 5800X3D with it's large L3 cache, or a 5900X for the extra cores and speed. RTX 4070 is a good shout. Have you thought about grabbing another 2 x 16GB LPX kit? Or a 2 x 32GB 3200/3600 kit? The software you're using will certainly benefit from that, too.
The X3D is faster than the 5800X in everything. I’m highly threaded workloads it’s about the same as a 5900X. I assumed with a GPU like that it’ll be gaming too.
I'm open to the idea of more memory - but I do monitor my work and I rarely hit 100% memory used but I do see the CPU hitting 100% reguarly. Right now I'm still researching. It seems like most benchmarks and reviews are saying sticking to AM4 for a little while longer is the way to go. I think you're suggestion of the going for the 5900 and a 4070 is the way to go. I'm going to look around to see where I can get the best value. It will probably be £900ish for both these parts.
Might be worth watching out for the rumoured 4000 Super updates - it should fix some of the memory disappointments, but who knows how it will be priced. At least it might push down the old-spec parts a little, if you want to save some pounds.
I think I've decided which way to go. As is always the case with the technology there is always something bigger and better around the corner but do you keep holding out for the next best thing or go for what is the best combo right now. I'm shopping around to find the best value for 5900 and the 4070 and hopefully by the end of the week I'll have placed the orders through.
I'm keeping my eyes out at the moment for a more modern board/CPU combo that runs SLI like this - don't suppose you ever did so with yours during the course of your work?
