Looking to Upgrade My Rig, Have Some Questions

K33N on 12/11/2020 - 17:19

With the release of the new Ryzen 5000s CPUs and their soon to be released 6000s GPUs, I am looking to upgrade my setup (not immediately anyway, seen how fast the initial stock disappeared). So I have some questions/looking for some recommendations in regards to this "transition".

The main focus of my setup is primarily gaming (on the highest graphical settings :)), some light-weight self-training labs running a couple of VMs, and should last a couple of years.

My current setup:
i7-6700K; GTX980Ti. The other components (not including the motherboard) should still be usable (like 4x8GB RAM, Corsair 850i modular PSU) to transition to the "next system".

1st Question: With the release of these two product lines, will there be a new motherboard to accompany them? I've read that x570 or even B450 could support the Zen 3 archetype, with the former being the recommended one. However, wouldn't the x570 be nearing the end of its life as it was released along with Zen 2 archetype?
2nd Question: What to do with my "old" hardware? What did you guys do? Is the resell value high? Did you spend more to build a second system with that hardware?

Those are the questions I have for now. Thanks in advance!

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  • abctoz on 12/11/2020 - 17:31
    +1

    they all use the AM4 chipset, zen 3 is probably the last cpu on this socket, also ddr5 probably coming next year
    https://www.amd.com/en/products/chipsets-am4

    you can sell your system still worth a decent amount, guessing ~250 for the gpu, ~200 for the cpu if you're lucky. unless you have other uses for it.

    • K33N on 12/11/2020 - 17:42

      thanks for the answer. So there won't be a new motherboard for the AM4 chipset?
      i.e the combination would be x570, a 5000s CPU, and a 6000s GPU?

      • abctoz on 12/11/2020 - 17:53
        +1

        honestly idk what the motherboard situation is, but as you can see from the link above most of the older boards in the same chipset will support zen 3, so it's not that interesting to me.

  • Switchblade88 on 12/11/2020 - 19:23

    Is there much benefit of newer Intels? As far as I'm aware it's all been incremental upgrades over the past few years. I recall Cyberpunk 2077 being 'recommended' with a 4570k which is 6 years old I think?

    Assuming the 6700k can safely hold it's own, then a basic GPU upgrade will be the most beneficial AS WELL AS cheapest upgrade path. If you go for a CPU swap to AMD then you've also got the motherboard to get - and neither of those will be any benefit to gaming if you keep the 980Ti as-is.

    Besides, if you do swap to AMD later on, then a new GPU will easily carry over along with your PSU/case/RAM/SSD etc. Right now that GPU is your bottleneck.

    • K33N on 12/11/2020 - 19:29

      thanks for the reply.
      True, one of the reasons I was looking for an upgrade besides the performance lift by Ryzen 5000s was also that their 6000s GPU can have full memory access between the two. But yeah, you raise a good point that my current rig is fine other than being held back a little by my GPU.

  • ijnkongo25 on 12/11/2020 - 20:10

    There won't be a new motherboard for AM4, there are minor updates like Rog X570 Crosshair VIII Dark Hero and Rog B550-XE, but they are still x570s and b550s.
    For your old system, apart from selling it, you can use it for VR, or modify it to a NAS (but you need to buy new PSUs, SSDs, RAMs, etc.)

    Besides, I do not really recommend you using B450 for Zen 3s, unless you are going for 5600x. And whether it is a X570 or B550 or B450, make sure the MB has bios flashback as they do not support zen 3 natively.

  • TheBird on 12/11/2020 - 20:22

    What to do with my "old" hardware? What did you guys do? Is the resell value high?

    One system I sold (CPU, Cooler, Ram - for way more than I expected), one system I used as a file server. Occasionally the missus would get my hand me down.

    What I'd do would depend on what uses I had for everything and what I was going to do with it. Top of the line machines aren't always needed.

    Did you spend more to build a second system with that hardware?

    Yeah, for the most part, I mostly built from scratch. Monitors, keyboard, mouse and HDD (I used to be an editor, so have a lot of hard drives lying around)

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