Question Help me with an upgrade dilemma

[Traxan]

It's been a few years since I built my PC and now I find myself torn. On the one hand, it works fine, I modified it with an AIO, engaged in cable management, upgraded here and there.

The case is a big Cooler Master case and I have a smaller, nice new Phanteks P500A. My HDDs are both M.2 and one is a 970 EVO Plus NVME drive, but the mobo, a 370, doesn't support NVME. So I am wondering how much I'm missing out.

The thing is, looking at the benchmarks, there is little difference between the i7 8700 I have now and Intel 10x, except the 10900 and that is very expensive. Even the 10700 would be a $500 investment in CPU and mobo and then I would need a new AIO if I gut the old one and use the memory, drives, GPU and PSU.

So what do you all think, just transfer the 8700/Z370 to the Phanteks or make the upgrade?

 

[UsandThem]

It's been a few years since I built my PC and now I find myself torn. On the one hand, it works fine, I modified it with an AIO, engaged in cable management, upgraded here and there.

The case is a big Cooler Master case and I have a smaller, nice new Phanteks P500A. My HDDs are both M.2 and one is a 970 EVO Plus NVME drive, but the mobo, a 370, doesn't support NVME. So I am wondering how much I'm missing out.

The thing is, looking at the benchmarks, there is little difference between the i7 8700 I have now and Intel 10x, except the 10900 and that is very expensive. Even the 10700 would be a $500 investment in CPU and mobo and then I would need a new AIO if I gut the old one and use the memory, drives, GPU and PSU.

So what do you all think, just transfer the 8700/Z370 to the Phanteks or make the upgrade?

The Intel Z370 supports NVMe drives. Pretty much the majority of motherboards since 2015 (when Sky Lake launched) have supported NVMe drives.

 

[Traxan]

Well the manual doesn't mention it.

 

[UsandThem]

Well the manual doesn't mention it.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z370-HD3P-rev-10#kf

Your motherboard listed in your signature has two M.2 slots, and which both support NVMe (PCIe) drives.



Edit: Your username looked familiar for some reason, and then I remember I posted in your PC exhaust thread. I remember you, LOL!

Edit2: I see you said you already are using a "970 EVO Plus NVME" drive in your OP, so that answers that part of your question.

 

[MalVeauX]

It really depends what you're doing with this PC to see if it will actually real world experience matter if you were to overhaul your platform for a CPU and system chipset upgrade.

Very best,