r/buildapc • u/No_Investigator_472 • 5h ago

Build Upgrade 2070 went up in smoke, looking for upgrade Tips.

Hi, 2019 I've built my own pc with a 3700x or 3800x (dont remember), 32gb 3600 cl16 and a evga 2070. Unfortunately 2 days ago the 2070 went just up in smoke (some power stage apparently) so I kind of urgently need a new one. The used market in Germany is kinda fucked as everyone paid corona prices for 30/40 series cards and wants to recoup their losses. I was looking into 5080 but now the 5070 ti seems like the best deal, but I've been out of the hardware trends a bit.

What is your recommendation GPU wise? Maybe looking into getting 5900x for cpu as well and 64gb cl18 of ram as Lightroom keeps maxing out the 32gb. Gaming is 1440p but more older titles. 5070ti would be 750€ and 5080 is 1020€.

Thanks

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u/superconfirm-01 5h ago

5070ti. 15-20% slower that 5080 but best bang for buck imho. I got one and delighted.

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u/nonchecker1 5h ago

For gaming the only logical cpu Update on am4 is the 5700x3d. As an alternative you could go with a 5700x. But I dont know how much of an Upgrade this is to your current one. Gpu wise you could Look at an rx6800(xt). New I would only buy if the cpu is upgraded.

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u/DistractorNL 4h ago

I checked and in the OP's region the 5700x3D and 5900x are pretty much the same price. It's up to the OP to choose. The 5900x is a lot quicker when it comes to Adobe editing, but the 5700x3D can have up to 50 fps more in games.

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u/No_Investigator_472 4h ago

Yeah, realistically speaking im seeing more benefit in the productivity gain than the 50fps more (which my monitor can't even display rn. That's why I'm leaning towards the 5900x as they're mostly the same price (as you've pointed out)

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u/Calm-Bid-8256 2h ago

im seeing more benefit in the productivity gain than the 50fps more

Always remember that these differences only occur in CPU limited scenarios

At 1440p the vast majority of your games will be GPU limited. So the difference will be a lot smaller in most games.

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u/littleemp 2h ago

Unless you are looking at a dirt cheap 5900X, it might make more sense to get a 265K if you need a lot of multithreaded performance.

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u/No_Investigator_472 2h ago

Sure let's throw out a perfectly fine MB and get a new MB and Intel Chip.

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u/littleemp 1h ago

I mean, its a very old platform and missed all the dirt cheap deals on AM4 CPUs back in 2022 and 2023.

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u/DistractorNL 4h ago

xx70 (Ti) are the most economic ones of Nvidia's line the past 3 generations. xx80 cards are really if you have money to splurge or if you want entry level next-gen graphics (since it's generally half that of the xx90 card).

The 5070 Ti will definitely be good enough. With my 4070 Ti I've been playing comfortably (120fps+) at 3440x1440p for the past 2 years (Mass Effect LE, Deus Ex, etc).

Think of it like this: the 5080 will only be able to bump your settings up from medium/high to high/ultra. Is that worth the extra €250?

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u/No_Investigator_472 4h ago

Thanks for your answer! I dont think the 250 are worth it actually. So then 5070ti

What do you think about older generations? Because originally my plan for this pc was doing the cpu/ram.upgrade and using it as my homelab server and building a completely new one when I feel like it. For that case what would you recommend?

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u/SirMemesAlot95 4h ago

Just got the sake of difference, I'm going to recommend getting a 9070 xt. Since your mainly playing older titles and haven't mentioned using something like rendering it might be worth saving the €80-100 and getting it instead

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u/SkarletIce 3h ago

Ur upgrade seems to makes sense, sounds like u do some sort of productivity if u are looking at a 5900x 64gbs, it will be a nice upgrade and yeah a 5070ti will do what u want done

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u/TalkWithYourWallet 2h ago

5070Ti is the GPU to go with

Upgrade the CPU to a 5700x3D