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PC upgrade plans
Nov. 10th, 2020 01:17 pmSo I bought this as an Athlon 64 system a few years ago, the board died went to an i3, upgraded the GPU a couple times there(RTX 570 now), and most recently upgraded to an i5 7600k(yes the board will overclock it, I just set it on the AI tune rather than try to wring every last mhz out of it manually) and also went up to a 1TB SSD.
My next planned upgrade is case and PSU. My PSU works well enough, but it is getting old. 9ish years. Case works, but is leaky and so much dust comes in that at times I've had to peel it off the CPU cooler. The only hiccup is that I occasionally use my DVD drive. Cases with a bay for that are becoming uncommon.
Then another year or so I'm thinking I might upgrade the CPU and RAM again. Maybe GPU too if I can spare the budget. More or less planning to go with a Ryzen unless price/performance ratios flip over the next year or two. Might go as far as 32GB ram from my current 16.
My next planned upgrade is case and PSU. My PSU works well enough, but it is getting old. 9ish years. Case works, but is leaky and so much dust comes in that at times I've had to peel it off the CPU cooler. The only hiccup is that I occasionally use my DVD drive. Cases with a bay for that are becoming uncommon.
Then another year or so I'm thinking I might upgrade the CPU and RAM again. Maybe GPU too if I can spare the budget. More or less planning to go with a Ryzen unless price/performance ratios flip over the next year or two. Might go as far as 32GB ram from my current 16.
