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?

  • Andy
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    82 years ago

    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

    • @canthidiumOP
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      42 years ago

      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.

      • Andy
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        22 years ago

        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.

        • @canthidiumOP
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          22 years 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      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.