PC gamers, did you upgrade or build a new PC in 2017 with new components? Anything awaiting in 2018?

As we say goodbye to 2017, this year wasn't bad in terms of new PC tech components. Surprising this year, the big changes in the PC components market were all-around processors between AMD Ryzen 7/5/3/Threadripper & Intel X-series/Coffee Lake. Radeon RX Vega 64 & GTX 1070Ti/GTX 1080Ti.

For me, I only upgraded my current rig and got myself an i7 8700K/GTX 1080Ti/Z370 Krait gaming Motherboard. In 2018, I'm not really looking forward to Volta and I'm all set as far as upgrading goes but the only thing I'll be getting is a 1440p/144Hz monitor and I'm all set for years until it's time to build a new PC. So what about you System Warriors?

(Happy new year)

Still running my old 3470k with a GTX 670, doubt it'll upgrade soon since I've lost interest

I cant remember if I upgraded my mobo/CPU/RAM in 2016 or 2017. I'm pretty sure it was 2016.

only thing I know for sure I got in 2017 is a new PSU and GPU (EVGA 650 watts/GTX 1080)

I'll probably build a new PC in late 2018. I'll stay at 1080p. I can stick with my 6 GB GTX 1060. Traditionally, a totally new PC always had an ATI/AMD video card with an Nvidia card as a mid-life upgrade. We'll see what's out by then.

As for CPU, I'm thinking Intel hexacore. If I was building a new PC right now, I'd go with an i5-8400.

As for RAM, I'd like to go to 24 GB or more. I like recording videos of gameplay. The more parts of the game on RAM, the less frequency of swapping out data. I'd probably get a motherboard with 4 RAM slots and buy 16 GB. If it's adequate, I'm done. Otherwise, I can fill the remaining two slots with more RAM.

If I'm not happy with 16:9, I might go 21:9. It's not a pressing issue though. I can wait.

i upgraded from a phenom 2 X4 955BE, 4gb ram and a radeon HD 5850 to a ryzen 5 1500X, 16GB of ram and an RX580 4GB. a bit of a jump.

i bit the bullet as i wanted to play F1 2017 (which refused to even launch on a phenom 2) and dirt rally wasnt playable.

i would have liked to have waited. now is not a great time for building a new PC due to crazy GPU and ram prices. but it doesnt look like the GPU part is going to get much better for a while (dam crypto miners. the RX580 i bought has since gone up to the same price as the 8GB version. mad). the ram price (around 200 bucks for a 16GB kit) was a bitter pill to swallow.

i dont forsee any upgrades for quite some time anyway.

I can't afford a 1080ti :(

finally upgraded my desktops old 2600k to 8700k, new mobo and ram to go with it, 980ti->1080ti

might get a new monitor in 2018, preferably ultrawide with hdr and 144hz+, otherwise I'll stick with the old 278q

I went all new, rather than upgrading.

i7 7700k
GTX 1070
16GB DDR4
2x3TB HDD's (one from old comp)
124GB SSD (old comp)

2018 will be a new GPU, but i'm waiting to see what we get in the next-gen nVidia releases.

2018 I'll build a mini itx rig, will wait for the GTX 1100 or whatever AMD has. I want a PC worthy of maxing out Star Citizen/Squadron 42.

@davillain-: Nope, last upgrade was may 2016 when I picked up a gtx 1080.

Part of me wants to upgrade my board/cpu/ram this year, but another part wants to keep the existing chip until 2020 just so I can say that I used the same cpu for gaming for an entire decade.

Didn’t upgrade anything this year. Waiting on Volta to launch from Nvidia and I’ll upgrade to that in 2018. My 6700k is still kicking so not looking at upgrading the CPU yet.

I had build my computer back in 2016 but I didn't upgrade anything this year. Maybe in 2018 I might switch to a new video card.

As long as you are satisfied what you're PC is doing, no need to upgrade the chip until you feel like it. The 1080 is a great choice btw.

But do you really need to? Do you really want a 1080Ti is the actual question?

Here's my suggestion, if you are good at gaming in 1080p, a nice 1070 or 1070Ti would be a much better choice but otherwise, a 1080Ti is beyond overkill to use it on 1080p.

I was gonna upgrade CPU MB and RAM, and I thought Ryzen 5 was the way to go, but a few things put me off - limited clock, RAM issues, RAM price and cooler compatibility. Right now i5-8400 looks more interesting to me, but I'll wait for Ryzen refresh first.

I might get another ssd for my computer next year. Perhaps a 1tb. I do need to get a sshd for ps4 too.

I upgraded my gpu from a 980ti to a 1080ti and added a 512gb ssd for all my vr games plan to get a 240gb for star citizen then get a 8700k for my birthday

I built a Gaming PC earlier this year, somewhere between Feb-March.. I bought an i5-6600K, 16GB of Dual Channel RAM, a 4GB RX 480, and a 500GB Samsung SSD.. eventually I added a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue, some time in the middle of 2018 I plan to upgrade to a GTX 1080 TI or whatever the best $300-500 card is by then, and hopefully squeeze me in a 1440p G-sync or Freesync monitor.

Havn't really upgraded since 2015, i7 and 970 GTX currently.

Waiting for the volta 1180 or 2080 (whatever they choose to name it) and thinking of saving for the new ASUS Ultra Wide 35' 200hz, g-sync, HDR 1440p monitor ..... not sure yet.

What do you plan on doing with the 1070?

I built a new system with late 2016, early 2017 parts. i7 6850, sli 1080's, MSI X99 mobo, 64Gb 2400 RAM, 250Gb M.2 SSD, 512Gb SSD, 3Tb HDD, 1000w 80+ Platinum PSU, custom water loop cooling for the CPU. I actually got most of the parts for free from an insurance write off, which was nice.

Not in 2017. Still hanging in there with my i7 3770 + Z77 system from years ago. Still happy with my GTX 970 I bought in 2015.

And yes, I'm upgrading in 2018. Very, very soon, in fact. The catalyst of this is my case; my Bitfenix Prodigy is falling apart at the seams, and since buying a new case means I'm going to have to take everything apart and put them back together anyway, I might as well take the opportunity to upgrade the whole thing. By the end of January, I hope to be rocking not only a new case, but also a new PSU, a Z370 motherboard, an i7 8700K CPU, a liquid cooler, and at least 16 GB of new RAMs. By the middle of the year, I hope to upgrade to a new, bigger hard drive.

I'll be keeping my GTX 970, and wait for Volta and Navi.

I upgraded my SSD, RAM, bought a new 4K monitor, and a new joystick. I don't plan to upgrade anything in 2018 but let's see how things go.

I won't be upgrading my graphics card till probably 2019. I'm very happy with my GTX 1070's performance.

@GarGx1: Is there a reason you went for SLI 1080’s rather than a single 1080 Ti?

Only GPU prices. Ram should go down soon

Upgraded from an i5 4440 to a ryzen 5 1600.Huge upgrade especially for video editing. Gpu wise will upgrade in 2018

Yup. they were completely free, in fact I restored them during working hours so technically I got paid to take them :)

I upgraded my GPU from a 970 to a 1080Ti and added a 2nd 1TB SSD (though it's an 850 Evo so not 2017 tech). I have been considering an NVMe SSD though so that may be next.

I'm fine with my Z170/6700K for now, I'm not sure it's worth the cost to buy anything newer currently. I would maybe like to add more RAM at some point but not at current prices and the 16GB I have is enough really.

I also accidentally added a 2TB firecuda SSHD to my PC. I had meant to buy a 2.5" one for my PS4 and wasn't paying attention and ordered the 3.5" one, I didn't even realise until it arrived, I thought they'd sent the wrong one until I went and saw the order and realised it was my screw up. Rather than return it I threw it in the PC and ordered another 2.5" one for the PS4.

Bought a ryzen/Vega 64 build.

Also bought a coffee lake build.

When's volta out?

Finally upgraded my storage situation from an old full slow-ass platter drive to a 500gb 850 Evo primary OS drive with a 2TB SSHD for gamesnstuff

Titan V is already out, if you have $3,000 to the spare. Last I heard, the rest of the line-up have apparently been delayed. Apparently, NVIDIA took one look at the Vega benchmarks, laughed, and decided to chill back and take their time with Volta.

I build a new rig from scratch im 2017.

Specs: Intel i7 8700k, Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G, MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon, Nzxt Phantom 820, G.Skill Trident Z RGB 2 x 8 GB DDR4-RAM 3000 MHz, be quiet! Dark Rock PRO 3, Corsair RM750x White (750W), Samsung 850 EVO Basic (500GB, 2.5"), WD Black Performance 2 TB HD

It is really, really awesome

@xantufrog: Even SSD’s are pieces of crap once you’ve tried nvme.

I upgraded my main build at the beginning of the year with an i7-7700K, MSI Z270 Gaming M5, and 16GB DDR4 3200 RAM. Also, I sold my GTX 1080 and I bought a GTX 1080 Ti. I then bought a GTX 1060 to build a secondary system with my old i7-3770K and leftover parts. However, I am now going to sell that secondary system as I recently bought an Asus ROG Strix GL702VS laptop (i7-7700HQ, GTX 1070). I also bought a 1TB SSD to put in the laptop. Been a busy year for me. hehe :)

It's pretty crazy as I have owned almost the whole GTX 10 series. 1060, 1070, 1080, 1080 TI.

I may replace the 1080 Ti in the new year with a Volta/Ampere 1180 or whatever, or I may wait for the Ti version. We will have to wait and see...

@BassMan: I’ve owned 2 1080’s and 3 1080 Ti’s myself.

Everything I've read about PCI-E nvme drives is that they kick ass in benchmark tests, but offer little in the way of real world performance improvements over a SATA 3 SSD. Have you actually noticed significantly faster windows boot/application loading speeds with it?

I have an intel 750 PCI-E drive with all my steam games on it, and it didn't really make much difference over a Samsung 850 EVO sata 3 ssd drive.

@appariti0n: Windoes boots even faster now. Though it was already damn fast to begin with.

The main perks of nvme are its small size, inconspciousness and the lack of sata/pcie cables. The power draw is also much lower I believe. Never had an issue with the speed of my old ssd’s. The clutter and their size was just annoying. My nvme don’t even show.

@paradocs: I might give it to my brother to SLI. SLI is largely garbage, but a free 1070 is probably worth it.

@Juub1990: This is true, my boot SSD is currently duck taped to the bottom of my case since it doesn't actually have a 2.5" mounting bay lol.

You crazy miner you.

I haven't even started using nvme, I been sticking to SSD and only have a 2TB just for everything I use on my PC. From what I saw, I can't really tell a difference other then it's just a different form factor.

Titan V isn't really meant for gaming, it's for hardcore Workstation PC.

Nvidia is trying to rack up it's consumers paying up $3,000 since AMD isn't gonna try to compete with Volta for a long time.

I got a new graphics card cause the old one died and that's pretty much it.

I also plan to upgrade to ryzen 2 in the coming months if ram prices stabilize a bit.

I paid 150 bucks for 32gigs of ddr3 ram(i need a lot of ram) when i got my cpu in 2013(3930k)

I flat out refuse to pay over 400 bucks for the same amount of ddr4 ram.

Worst case scenario i buy 16gigs but they really need to short this shit out.

You can't have your ram costing more than your cpu/mobo

Still using an i5-4670k and GTX 780 from three years ago. Not interested enough in most of the new games to upgrade. I can still run all of them decently.

Mine is just half laying on the bottom of the case and half hanging from the SATA and power cable.

I upgraded my GPU and got a new SSHD for game storage this year along with a new case a RL06 Pro... I was waiting for coffee lake to release, and now well since I game at 4K I think I will stick with my 4670K till the summer.

My most recent build as of 2 months now. Absolutely loving it!

Case: Phanteks Evolv ATX Mid-Tower

CPU: i7-8700k 3.7Ghz

GPU: EVGA GTX 1080ti SC2 Hybrid

MOBO: MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon & Corsair Hydro H100i V2 240mm Liquid Cooling

RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance

HDD: 1TB Samsung 850 EVO

HDD2: 3TB Western Digital

PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750

Actually, I did buy a new hard drive this year, another 6 TB WD Blue for my movies, and I replaced my CPU fan with the Noctua NF-F12.

Just built it this month:

CPU: Threadripper 1950x (I managed to snatch this sucker up at Micro Center for $700 on sale!!!)

GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrid

MB: ASRock X399 Taichi

RAM: G-Skill 32GB DDR4 Ram

SSDs: Samsung 850 EVO m.2 1TB, 2 x Samsung EVO SSD (SATA) 500GB

PSU: EVGA 850

Case: Phankteks Enthoo Luxe Tempered Glass

Capture: Elgato 4K60 Pro

I got another SSD to join in the SATA 2 bottleneck party I've got going on. Will be upgrading to next gen Ryzen this year, hopefully.