Man of Honour
Hello - have not ventured into the PC building hobby for a long time and therefore I'm completely out of touch - so forgive me if I've made any major jumps in assumptions.
I'm looking for a fairly sizeable upgrade / new build
Main requirements:
- Capable of running Half-Life: Alyx on higher-end settings well
- to also be used for video editing
- Reasonably future proof - though I tend to have ~5-6 year upgrade cycle...
Budget for now I'm assuming circa £1,400 for main bits [as below] - but am hoping some of my older parts *might* be still useable - so hopefully you lot can help advise.
I currently have a ~6 year old:
Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 case
Antec TruePower Classic 750w '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply
Bits that'll be escaping the case:
Intel i5 4690K (Socket 1150)
Gigabyte Z97MX Z97
KFA2 Geforce GTX 770 2GB
8GB DDR3
Basic critique spec:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
So main questions:
- From what I've found on here sounds like 3900X is quite the CPU, and probably anything above an RTX 2070 SUPER just gets very expensive
- Is my case / PSU going to be able to take it? Size wise it looks like plenty of space for long card, and assuming ATX is still ATX.
- RAM - from research, 16GB probably is fine today - but 32GB would probably help for video side I'm assuming?
- Stock CPU cooler going to be OK for timebeing I assume?
- SSD - better to go PCI-E or SATA?
Think that's everything anyway, let me know if I've made any glaring errors?!
Thanks in advance!
I'm looking for a fairly sizeable upgrade / new build
Main requirements:
- Capable of running Half-Life: Alyx on higher-end settings well
- to also be used for video editing
- Reasonably future proof - though I tend to have ~5-6 year upgrade cycle...
Budget for now I'm assuming circa £1,400 for main bits [as below] - but am hoping some of my older parts *might* be still useable - so hopefully you lot can help advise.
I currently have a ~6 year old:
Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 case
Antec TruePower Classic 750w '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply
Bits that'll be escaping the case:
Intel i5 4690K (Socket 1150)
Gigabyte Z97MX Z97
KFA2 Geforce GTX 770 2GB
8GB DDR3
Basic critique spec:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Twelve Core 4.6GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £458.99
- 1 x Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard= £209.99
- 1 x Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit= £209.99
- 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER WindForce OC 3X 8G 8192MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £499.99
Total: £1,378.96 (includes shipping: £0.00)
So main questions:
- From what I've found on here sounds like 3900X is quite the CPU, and probably anything above an RTX 2070 SUPER just gets very expensive
- Is my case / PSU going to be able to take it? Size wise it looks like plenty of space for long card, and assuming ATX is still ATX.
- RAM - from research, 16GB probably is fine today - but 32GB would probably help for video side I'm assuming?
- Stock CPU cooler going to be OK for timebeing I assume?
- SSD - better to go PCI-E or SATA?
Think that's everything anyway, let me know if I've made any glaring errors?!
Thanks in advance!