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Itching to upgrade something, but what? (i.imgur.com)

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This is mostly just for discussion, but this is my PC's current state. I do want to do a full custom watercooled setup sometime but I'm wondering if anything is screaming out "upgrade me, I'm old". I mostly game and do CAD design/3D printing. Some photoshop and After Effects work every now and then. What would you upgrade?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What games?

Honestly unless your seeing performance issues, I'd just keep the cash and buy more games.

But you ou could go to a 5800x3d on the same mb/ram. It'd be a drop in cores, but depending on the games it could be beneficial.

Or upgrade cpu/ram/mb to the newest gen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, no issues. This was mostly just for discussion really. I guess I could have worded it better. Like "This is my setup, if you had it and wanted to upgrade something, what would be first?".

I mostly play single player story stuff. Right now playing Breath of the Wild on Cemu. But usually stuff like Fallout, Tomb Raider, Sony's games, Resident Evil, and VR on a Valve Index.

I do feel like cpu/mb/ram would be the thing to upgrade next, but I'd probably do that later. I'm probably going to end up doing water cooling the more I think of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've sunk way too much money into my water cooling setup. It becomes a bit of an obsession.

Welcome to the water cooling club.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This is really the biggest reason I haven't done a custom setup yet. I spend too much on 3D printing as it is. And I'm never satisfied so I know I'd be tinkering forever.

[–] TEKUMS 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's the only thing on the list that I could see a possible improvement in performance in. I'm waiting on a good price for an x3d and I'm coming from an 5600x. Outside of that there won't be much of an improvement anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, if there's a r/buildapc type community I should post this in, then please let me know. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.one/post/17459 has a good list to wade through

Oh, awesome, thanks for that! I was looking at the 5800x3d, but it looks like a downgrade to me. Am I missing something? Is the single stacked L3 cache that big of an improvement still even with less cores and lower clock speed?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, thanks for the detailed post! I'll definitely have to look more into how I'm using my PC nowadays. I still game, but I jump back and forth between the PC and the PS5 a lot. Most of my time is spent in Fusion 360 designing for 3D printing. So I'm not sure about the 5800x3d, but maybe upgrading to a newer generation Ryzen could be in the cards. Either way, I don't want to rush into anything just yet, but you've definitely given me something to think about. Much appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

as you only adjust one shape for the print

I'm not sure what you mean by this. CAD and 3D printing are two separate processes. You make a design in CAD and then bring that file into 3D printing software (known as a slicer), which converts the model file into a gcode file (basically a list of instructions that the printer interprets for printing) that is given to the printer. The 3D printing part is mostly handled by the printer itself. Slicing the model file is the only part done on the computer. You can also just download files to print and never even use a computer if you don't want to design yourself.

I sometimes download premade files to print, but more often that not I make designs myself in CAD, which I then print. But yes, you are correct in that the 3D printing part isn't memory intensive. But I do a lot of CAD design, which is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nothing is screaming out to be upgraded, personally I went for 64GB of RAM since I do a lot of flight and racing sims which can be very RAM intensive (I’m looking at you DCS). But it’s still probably overkill to be honest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's how I feel. Nothing is screaming to be upgraded. And it's a workhorse now with no issues knock on wood. Just curious what others thought and I'm just wanting to do something to it, haha. Thanks!

[–] festus 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm bump up the RAM to 64GB. It's somewhat overkill for most cases but you somewhat future-proof your device more. Also, if you have any interest in AI you can easily run some of the open-source large language models pretty comfortably on the CPU with 64GB of RAM (see llama.cpp program).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

OOh, now there's an idea. I'm always looking for new things to play around with. Thanks!

[–] Pyr_Pressure 3 points 2 years ago

I mean, if you want to future proof you could go with ddr5 ram but then you would need to change your motherboard and a bunch of other stuff I imagine.

[–] festus 2 points 2 years ago

To be clear you can probably already run some medium-sized models on 32GB using llama.cpp, as it's been optimized a ton in the past few months - but I know that early on some models were eating up 48GB of my RAM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@canthidium For me looks good. Probably I'll upgrade that HDD for some SSDs.

Nowadays SSDs last longer than hard drives due to TRIM.
You should check the Asus Hyper or any kind of SSD M.2 adapter to PCIe.

Something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Supports-Devices-Platform-Functions/dp/B0863KK2BP/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?crid=13LD9IVUSYLW4&keywords=ssd+pcie+adapter+Asus&qid=1686787946&sprefix=ssd+pcie+adapter+asus%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-9

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Eh it's just a storage drive. I've got the 2tb ssd in as my main drive but yeah, I'd probably upgrade both sooner than later.

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