Recently did a major upgrade myself. I had a pretty old system I guess, bought most of the stuff back in 2012 or 2013, so I wasn't able to play much of anything that's come out recently at reasonable framerates.
Ended up going AMD and got a Ryzen 2700X and a Gaming 5 x470 mobo and grabbed 16 gigs of 3200 MHz ram. Had an RX 470 videocard in there I bought a couple years back but it just wasn't good enough anymore so upgraded that too and got a 1080 TI. Then my 9 year old 1080p Samsung monitor needed to be put to rest, so I grabbed a nice BenQ 1440p monitor a few days ago. Gaming on this new set up is freaking amazing. Even my uber modded Skyrim runs beautifully at 60 FPS everywhere @ 1440p.
The Ryzen 2700X is a beauty. Before I upgraded I use to edit my videos and then wait until bedtime to start rendering lol. Even websurfing was a chopfest at times while rendering. Not anymore though, it can handle rendering and gaming at the same time no issues. Really impressed with this CPU.
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