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fred246

Well obviously if you buy a new CPU every week it would fit. Question is why you want a new CPU every week. It's not normal.

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you need to pick your favorite games, and find what is the required spec works well with them VS cost.

The other way is to ask in a forum where the people have no idea what you play, and could have more funds financially available and start recommending stupid stuff like a this 3XS Helios, Watercooled Intel Core i9 10900K "Comet Lake", 32GB DDR4, 24GB NVIDIA RTX 3090, 2TB M.2 SSD for a bargain price of £5500

forgotmyname

fred246 said:

Well obviously if you buy a new CPU every week it would fit. Question is why you want a new CPU every week. It's not normal.

Every week?   I initially said 3 in 4 years.   Current AM4 socket came out in 2017 and with BIOS updates a lot of boards
will support the chips coming out soon and upto next year where a new socket will be released.  Although in the
2000's my PC was upgraded almost on a weekly/monthly basis. Stopped putting the sides on after a while.
Getting your £400 system to outperform a £1000 system was a challenge and fun.

Still using DDR4 although RAM speeds have increased the boards will take older and newer speeds again may
require BIOS tweaks.

There are usually upgrade paths available unless you buy the best of the best of a board that is about to expire
like the Ryzen 5000 CPU's about to be released.  If that 5950X is the best CPU they make then there wont be
an upgrade without a new board, but choose an 5600 or 5800 then you have options..  There maybe options
after the 5950X who knows.

forgotmyname

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you need to pick your favorite games, and find what is the required spec works well with them VS cost.

The other way is to ask in a forum where the people have no idea what you play, and could have more funds financially available and start recommending stupid stuff like a this 3XS Helios, Watercooled Intel Core i9 10900K "Comet Lake", 32GB DDR4, 24GB NVIDIA RTX 3090, 2TB M.2 SSD for a bargain price of £5500

Sounds like a good budget system. 

No 16TB drive for the massive games library?   Or are they old school and will ask for a CD/DVD drive like my daughter?
Building a nice gaming system, then drops the bombshell she wants a drive.. How about a nice external drive? Nope.. Internal.
That sliced the choice of nice cases.

I watch some live streamed tech channels and not uncommon for people to donate US $100 during the streams.  There will
be those that look at your spec above and think thats a good start but i also need...  And probably a lot more who cannot
afford a system thats 10% of that price.

I have a R1700 and a 2060 Super. Its OK but showing its age now.  I just reduce the quality.  It sometimes struggles to
keep the monitor at 75FPS, even though its using less than half its Video RAM.

fred246

forgotmynameforgotmyname said:

PC was upgraded almost on a weekly/monthly basis.

I always build a great system first time and just enjoy using it. I hadn't even thought of upgrading every week. That must be really great money saving advice.

forgotmyname

fred246 said:

I always build a great system first time and just enjoy using it. I hadn't even thought of upgrading every week. That must be really great money saving advice.

Of course its money saving, ask all the people that got good spec systems at a really good price due to my constant tinkering.
Getting a £400 system to outperform a £1000 system was also money saving even if it got to a point where the PC
would only run long enough for the benchmark to post it's result and then complain it needed a rest.

I knew which part numbers that would get you a stable 40% increase of its rated speed without spending a single penny extra.
I couldn't quite make 50% extra, but 48.3 was my closest.  Its moneysaving..

fred246

forgotmyname said:

fred246 said:

I always build a great system first time and just enjoy using it. I hadn't even thought of upgrading every week. That must be really great money saving advice.

Getting a £400 system to outperform a £1000 system was also money saving even if it got to a point where the PC
would only run long enough for the benchmark to post it's result and then complain it needed a rest.

Excellent. Nothing like a PC that crashes all the time. Great fun!
Sorry OP you don't tend to get much help on these forums. Normally get hijacked by 'my gadgets are better than yours' type people. "I mess with my PC more than you" is a new one for me.