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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?
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
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.
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.
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.
Yeah that's the only thing on the list that I could see a possible improvement in performance in. I'm waiting on a good price for an x3d and I'm coming from an 5600x. Outside of that there won't be much of an improvement anywhere.
Oh, if there's a r/buildapc type community I should post this in, then please let me know. Thanks!
I'm bump up the RAM to 64GB. It's somewhat overkill for most cases but you somewhat future-proof your device more. Also, if you have any interest in AI you can easily run some of the open-source large language models pretty comfortably on the CPU with 64GB of RAM (see llama.cpp program).
OOh, now there's an idea. I'm always looking for new things to play around with. Thanks!
I mean, if you want to future proof you could go with ddr5 ram but then you would need to change your motherboard and a bunch of other stuff I imagine.
To be clear you can probably already run some medium-sized models on 32GB using llama.cpp, as it's been optimized a ton in the past few months - but I know that early on some models were eating up 48GB of my RAM.
Nothing is screaming out to be upgraded, personally I went for 64GB of RAM since I do a lot of flight and racing sims which can be very RAM intensive (I’m looking at you DCS). But it’s still probably overkill to be honest
Yeah, that's how I feel. Nothing is screaming to be upgraded. And it's a workhorse now with no issues knock on wood. Just curious what others thought and I'm just wanting to do something to it, haha. Thanks!
@canthidium For me looks good. Probably I'll upgrade that HDD for some SSDs.
Nowadays SSDs last longer than hard drives due to TRIM.
You should check the Asus Hyper or any kind of SSD M.2 adapter to PCIe.
Eh it's just a storage drive. I've got the 2tb ssd in as my main drive but yeah, I'd probably upgrade both sooner than later.