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Itching to upgrade something, but what? (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago by canthidium to c/[email protected]
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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?

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[–] andy64 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] canthidium 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] andy64 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've sunk way too much money into my water cooling setup. It becomes a bit of an obsession.

Welcome to the water cooling club.

[–] canthidium 2 points 1 year ago

This is really the biggest reason I haven't done a custom setup yet. I spend too much on 3D printing as it is. And I'm never satisfied so I know I'd be tinkering forever.

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