Dreamerbydesign
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Thinking of making a hardware change. Looking for opinions and thoughts.
My current thinking is as soon as the new 8 core Intel mainstream chips release (rumored 9700k etc) I would lose more money re selling what I have currently.
Price / value has alot to do with this. My total upgrade cost would be $120-250 as I have a microcenter nearby where I will be buying my gear. So if I can "side grade" to a 2700x and decent Mobo from my 6700k, in the end I may be better off from a price / value stand point.
Current System:
What I use it for:
Well I'd love to say mostly gaming. But that would be a lie. I occasionally play games, but my time has been more limited. I do coding, web development, some work in photoshop, and run around 5 or so VM's, but not always at the same time.
This computer is also the main PLEX server for the home network.
While the 6700k does everything I think it needs to do, I have been bit by the upgrade bug. It has been a few years since I have built a PC.
I wonder, if I do not game much, a loss in single thread performance may not mean too much. And if I am multitasking more, perhaps going with more cores vs less faster cores, would be beneficial.
Proposed plan:
Would you do it?
My current thinking is as soon as the new 8 core Intel mainstream chips release (rumored 9700k etc) I would lose more money re selling what I have currently.
Price / value has alot to do with this. My total upgrade cost would be $120-250 as I have a microcenter nearby where I will be buying my gear. So if I can "side grade" to a 2700x and decent Mobo from my 6700k, in the end I may be better off from a price / value stand point.
Current System:
- 6700K
- Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7 Mobo
- 32GB DDR4 2400
- Various hard drives
- 2 x NVME SSD's
- Corsair 850i PSU
- Gigabyte 1070 G1
What I use it for:
Well I'd love to say mostly gaming. But that would be a lie. I occasionally play games, but my time has been more limited. I do coding, web development, some work in photoshop, and run around 5 or so VM's, but not always at the same time.
This computer is also the main PLEX server for the home network.
While the 6700k does everything I think it needs to do, I have been bit by the upgrade bug. It has been a few years since I have built a PC.
I wonder, if I do not game much, a loss in single thread performance may not mean too much. And if I am multitasking more, perhaps going with more cores vs less faster cores, would be beneficial.
Proposed plan:
- AMD 2700x
- Overclocking is not a requirement, but maybe a decent 370/470 mobo?
- Keep the rest of my system including the ram etc. And rebuild.
- Sell off the Z170, 6700K and Phanteks cooler
Would you do it?
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