Opnion on upgrade

[Alvarez_Tiago]

Ok, so I have an i9 9900k and even with the 3080 I'm starting to feel I've been bottlenecked in some games, I was playing Silent Hill 2 remake and there were a few instances I notice my gpu was being under utilized.
Eventually I will upgrade my GPU and it will be an even bigger factor.
I'm thinking of going amd but to get an am5 chip I will also have to upgrade ram and I got an offer to get an R7 5800x3d + Rog strix B550 F for 500 bucks ( I live in Japan so It's in yen so I did the conversion )
The 7800x3d alone is around the same price here and I'll have to buy a new MB + new ram.
I already have 64gb of 3200mhz ddr4 ( which I OC to 3600mhz )

So, what do you guys think?
How much of am upgrade would be going from an i9 9900k to a 5800x3d?
I'm also thinking about going with and 5070 when it comes out to upgrade my GPU, would ot pair nicely?
I've seen the 4080 + 5800x3d combo quite a lot and the 5070 will most likely be a slightly better 5080 with newer architecture so...

Well, opinions?

[Dan5000]

Your current build already looks like something that'll last 5-10 years, depending on how long the hardware holds up without breaking. What more can you want?

[Alvarez_Tiago]

I did not mean to brag or anything.
It's just that gaming is my hobby and I have the means to make a small upgrade from time to time.
Plus, I own this i9 9900k since launch, 2018, and it's been 6 years, I think it's due time to upgrade.
And I'll skip the 40 series to upgrade my GPU but I will eventually.

[Dan5000]

It's fine, I also don't reaaally know how good an i9 is, as I've only ever used i5 or i7 myself. I only know its better and thats its a lot more expensive, so nothing I'll ever get.

I currently run the: i7-14700KF coupled with the RTX 4060 Ti and 32 gb of DDR 5 ram

I am not planning on ever upgrading that again unless it breaks. Any game that doesn't run on a machine like that, now or in the future either has bad optimization or plays with extra bling on the graphics more than it needs to. We're already at what I consider peak.

Anything more is just squeezing tiny bits inbetween already crazy looking graphics. If I look outside, it already looks worse haha

[Alvarez_Tiago]

Your I7 14th gen is definitely better than my i9 9th gen.
My i9 was a great pick for me at the time and it lasted me a long time.
And the 3080 has also shown to have been a great purchase. So much so that I'm skipping the 40 series.
Your build is definitely better than mine in many aspects.
Your cpu is better and DDR5 ram is for sure faster than DDR4.
And the 4060ti is not as powerful as the 3080 when it comes to raw performance but technology puts it slightly ahead. DLSS 3 Frame Gen will give you more frames than I can get with the 3080, and it some cases, for me at least, my CPU is showing its age.

It's also true that many games are coming out badly optimized nowadays, but UE5 is here to stay and new tech, even if they are not that much more powerful than some older tech, is for sure better equipped to handle it a bit better.

And my next upgrade is meant to last me just as much as my last one, 4 to 6 yeas CPU and 3 to 4 year GPU.

[Dan5000]

I just got my upgrade a few months ago, my 6-7 year old machine didn't make it any longer, had all kinds of problems. I still was on the 1060 before that and only on an i5 and 16 gb ddr 3 ram.

So you upgrade your gpu seperately from the rest, thats why it caught me by surprise, because I read i9 and knew the 3080 is still plenty enough.

I guess when you upgrade, you'll have an ever lasting machine aswell.

[Alvarez_Tiago]

Yeah, I upgrades bits and pieces as time goes on, everything at once is too expensive and often cases not necessary.
Unless you wait till everything is really really old in which case gaming will become almost impossible after a certain point.

[Dan5000]

I never had any problems doing that, usually I always waited around 8 years for a new pc, only this time it was a tiny bit quicker, because of it having multiple things not working right anymore.

My old PC was even able to still run hogwarts legacy, though only at the very minimum settings. Still didn't look that bad though, nowadays "minimum" actually still looks good. I remember actually being completely unable to even see what stuff is supposed to be, if you turned everything way down, like 20 years in the past haha