It's finally time to build new. Looking for a few suggestions.

[cmdrdredd]

It's finally time to seriously build a new system for myself. The one in my sig has been going strong for a while but...it's showing its age. Time to move to more cores, faster memory, newer motherboard etc. I have a few questions though.

Planning the following combination
AMD Ryzen 2700x
ASUS Crosshair VII Hero
16GB DDR4-3200 memory(not brand loyal but probably G.Skill or Corsair)
1TB Samsung 860 EVO SATA SSD
500GB Samsung 960 EVO NVMe SSD(boot drive)

I'm going to reuse my GTX 970s for now as the current GPU pricing is ridiculous and I want to go high end single card for my next one but not when 1080 ti cards are $1k. Do you think I have to change the PSU as well? I've been told no because it's working and provides adequate power but also have been told that they age over time and it's a good idea to replace them. I'm also wondering if a NVMe SSD is really necessary. I've seen some tests where load times for the OS and for gaming isn't that much better with an NVMe drive over standard SATA SSDs. Would be more cost effective to simply use the single 1TB SATA SSD drive for my games and apps and a large standard HDD for my storage rather than splitting it between an NVMe drive and a SATA SSD. Has anyone found the NVMe drives to offer a significant real world boost that makes it worth adding one to my build? I've seen arguments both ways. One says do it because the pricing isn't that extreme anymore and the other says it's not necessary when you test it in real world usages. Just looking for a little bit of guidance here.

 

[lakedude]

The review all but said a 2800 was on the way soon. I'd wait 4 days to see how this Ryzen refresh pans out.

 

[whm1974]

I would just get another 1TB SATA SSD as you won't see much difference between SATA and NVMe SSDs anyway. So why not just go larger?

 

[lakedude]

Any reason you are avoiding the i7-8700k?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Any reason you are avoiding the i7-8700k?

Not particularly. Is there any reason to think it’s a better value? I know single core performance is still lead by intel chips. You think I should just go with intel? I’m sure the real world difference for me will be quite small in the end.

I would just get another 1TB SATA SSD as you won't see much difference between SATA and NVMe SSDs anyway. So why not just go larger?

That was my thought and why I asked.

 

[EXCellR8]

buy one of my Vega cards...

 

[lakedude]

With no details available on the 2700 there is no way to tell if the 6 core i7 would be better. I suspect it will depend on the workload.

 

[cmdrdredd]

With no details available on the 2700 there is no way to tell if the 6 core i7 would be better. I suspect it will depend on the workload.

There are leaked reviews I saw that show single thread performance going to the 8700k and multi thread performance to the 2700x and for gaming it’s really close with most tests favoring intel.

 

[vailr]

Just bought an EVGA GTX 1070Ti for ~$510 at Newegg, so video card prices are tending to go back down again.
There's also newer GTX 1170 & 1180 nVidia cards cards due, about in July.
Another factor to consider: waiting until the "Spectre problem is fixed" CPU's are available.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Just bought an EVGA GTX 1070Ti for ~$510 at Newegg, so video card prices are tending to going back down again.
There's also newer GTX 1170 & 1180 nVidia cards cards due, about in July.
Another factor to consider: waiting until the "Spectre problem is fixed" CPU's are available.

I’m not worried about that specter stuff. I will probably wait for the 1180 or whatever it will be I mean it’s pretty close to that time really. A few months isn’t that long.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Decided I couldn't wait and have a i7 8700k, Asus Maximus X Hero (WiFi ac), 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200, 2x 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSDs, and a Noctua NH-D15 on the way. Should be a nice upgrade. Will wait for the next round of GPUs before purchasing that I suppose.

 

[lakedude]

Nice!

 

[cmdrdredd]

Nice!

Thanks I’m looking forward to getting it assembled.