computer upgrade

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by pm67310, Jul 31, 2020.

  1. pm67310

    pm67310 MDL Senior Member

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    #1 pm67310, Jul 31, 2020
    Good morning all

    For the little story :

    in 2016 I decided to assemble a PC

    with 64gb of ram in ddr4, 128gb of ssd, and 2tb of hard disk

    an i7 6700 at 4ghz

    and a few months later (3 months) I add a rx580 8gb of vram

    the years go by and today i just changed to an amd ryzen 9 3900x and a 550 chipset motherboard to support the new pcie 4.0, so already gone from 8 cores to 24 cores it's impressive

    suddenly in a few months I will put a nvme (at 64gb per second)

    for the system I have windows 10 Ltsc (ltsb - without the metro applications)

    I think the best is to wait until 2021 for the graphics part? that thought you
     
  2. luzea

    luzea MDL Expert

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    #2 luzea, Jul 31, 2020
    I wouldn’t say that. I would only wait for the next release if it’s in about 2-3 months. Otherwise, I would advise you to buy it now.
     
  3. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    #3 sebus, Jul 31, 2020
    And what might you be doing to need all this power?
     
  4. Excalibur0076

    Excalibur0076 MDL Member

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    #4 Excalibur0076, Jul 31, 2020
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    I`d say more then likely setting up or upgrading a gaming rig or extensive video editing.

    MSI GP Leopard Core i7-10750H / 16GB DDR4 RAM / 512GB NVME SSD / Nvidia RTX2060 6BGB VRAM
     
  5. WindowsGeek

    WindowsGeek MDL Expert

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    #5 WindowsGeek, Jul 31, 2020
    Serious gamer he has a lot power already but if u have money for upgrades why not;)
     
  6. Excalibur0076

    Excalibur0076 MDL Member

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    #6 Excalibur0076, Jul 31, 2020
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    The question wasn`t how much money anyone had and how serious they were it was MDL Guru said, "what might you be doing to need all this power?" and the question was logically answered! had absolutely nothing to do with cost.
     
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    Excalibur0076 MDL Member

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    #7 Excalibur0076, Jul 31, 2020
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    I hope pm67310 answers were answered.
     
  8. shhnedo

    shhnedo MDL Addicted

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    #8 shhnedo, Jul 31, 2020
    Correction, there is a question.
    Ampere is dropping later this year as far as I remember, but that's the high-end SKUs. The budget parts are probably due in early 2021.
     
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  9. pm67310

    pm67310 MDL Senior Member

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    #9 pm67310, Jul 31, 2020 (OP)
    for artificial intelligence, photoshop, ai gigapixel video, video editing and video games + vmware workstation with windows server and a lots of virtual machine powered on
     
  10. pf100

    pf100 MDL Expert

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    #10 pf100, Aug 1, 2020
    I'll start by saying right now is not a good time to buy a graphics card unless you just have to have one now. Much better ones will be released in a few months and the prices of the current cards will come down. I would only wait until 2021 if you want to buy budget versions of the next generation cards. The best time to buy a high end card will be around the holiday season around the end of 2020. Yes, the prices of high end cards may come down in 2021, but the ones at the top probably never will until there are faster cards (re: RTX 2080 Ti).
     
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    R29k MDL GLaDOS

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    #11 R29k, Aug 1, 2020
    October-November is the time for graphics upgrades. Everything should be out then you can see if you want it or you can get a great deal on the older stuff
     
  12. WindowsGeek

    WindowsGeek MDL Expert

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    #12 WindowsGeek, Aug 3, 2020
    I agree just wait a few months for the specials were vendors need to dump their older stock and the slash prices:)