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In this crazy market, do I just bite the bullet and upgrade? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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My PC 10 years old this month and I really need an upgrade, I have a newer GPU so only need the rest of the fucking owl.

The biggest issue of course is the RAM PRICE, Do I just take the plunge and spend €1800 on 128GB of 6000MT CL40 RAM? Or do I pay more/gb for 64GB of faster RAM?

I'm buying to last me another 10 years preferably. I'll probably go for the latest top of the line AMD CPU and the best mobo/psu I can get.

I don't really have a fixed budget but I'm trying not to spend the next 6+mo worth of money on an upgrade.

Any advice?

Edit:

I use it for work, I work in tech, I run a lot of memory heavy stuff, I use it for CAD, dev, gaming, etc. I'm constantly running at 90% ram utilisation on my 32gb ram. I'll copy what I said below:

I'm sitting at around 90% utilisation constantly on 32 and FF keeps crashing because I'm out of memory.

I work in the tech field, so it's sometimes docker, lots of CAD, games (often with said cad program and browser in the background)

Current specs: i7 7700k, 32GB DDR4, 2080TI

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[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If you're planning on upgrading why not just build a brand new PC? Since gaming is generally more hardware demanding leave your current PC for work and build a gaming PC. Putting the two together (especially with how you're using it) you're not only increasing the overall hardware demands but you're also increasing the damage of a potential infection. I'm also pretty sure 2080ti isn't going to last you another 10 years. The problem with the 20 series is that it hasn't aged well. If you get everything else top of the line your system will be bottlenecked by the 2080ti. I would build a separate gaming PC and cut the memory demands to buy a beefier GPU. The current PC I'd continue using as a work station.

Buying DDR4 at the current price is a waste of money so if a new PC isn't an option I wouldn't do anything. 32GB should be enough for what you're doing if you weren't trying to run everything at once.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I mean, yeah, that's what's going to happen.

My PSU isn't powerful enough for a new CPU (and later on GPU upgrade) anyway.

As for the 2 PCs thing, it's just too much of an inconvenience, I already merge to an extent work and pleasure because I have 3 screens on my PC, getting an expensive multi input KVM to switch between them isn't really an option. KDE is deprecating X11, so xRDP won't be an option in the future either.

I also don't expect the 2080 to last, that is an upgradable component, I could put a 5090 in my PC right now, but I'm bottlenecked by my CPU.