Christmas Upgrade?

[GreenSmoke]

My sig has my rig - ya dig? With Christmas coming up, I want to avoid socks and underwear. The gift givers are loaded but I am a "reasonable" person, so just be reasonable also and don't tell me to ask for crazy stuff

What would you upgrade or add to make it more awesome? I have no complaints about my current system but things can always be more awesome, right?

I play games like Civ 6, Cities Skylines, Smite, and Hearts of Iron 4. It's nice and quiet, even when gaming and it has no heat issues. QUITE is mandatory.

I have thought about RGB stuff...
I thought about a water cooler....
I thought about more RAM...
I thought about more storage...
I thought about a new case...

Those are all options - if you think that's what you would do, or if you have a better idea, I am all ears (or eyes as the case may be). If you have multiple ideas, hit me with them all.

 

[EarthDog]

A better GPU to drive that monitor? M.2/NVMe based storage?

I don't think you 'get' anything out of more RAM, or cooler, etc. a new case will change the look...


depends on what 'awesome' means to you.

 

[GreenSmoke]

I don't know what awesome means to me in this regard. I am hoping someone has something up their sleeve that will entice me

The M.2 drive is a good idea.

 

[Ben333]

Grab another 16 GB of RAM if you have a use for it... If gaming is your most demanding task, probably 100% fine with 16 GB though.

You seem to have a solid build. Maybe case \ aesthetics? NVME storage is definitely nice!

 

[SPL Tech]

M.2/NVMe based storage?
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Pointless. That has zero effect on real world performance. The GPU is the place to upgrade for sure. For 144 Hz 1440P he should be running a 2080Ti overclocked.

 

[EarthDog]

Pointless. That has zero effect on real world performance. The GPU is the place to upgrade for sure. For 144 Hz 1440P he should be running a 2080Ti overclocked.

lol... thats the first thing I said (gpu upgrade). He also mentioned he wants "more" storage.... why not get nvme storage?

 

[Ben333]

Personally I have not done real world side by side tests... But in any event, NVME is not a "pointless" upgrade. Gen 3 nvme SSDs can be had for not a whole lot more money than SATA \ m.2 drives, and in benchmarks can be as much as 4 - 6 times as fast. I find it hard to believe that none of that is felt in boot times, loading times, or times when the system is reading or writing to & from multiple places on the same drive at the same time.

It also eliminates a need to even have a drive mounted in your case somewhere, along with eliminating two cables. So beneficial in both form and function.

Even for a supplemental storage upgrade down the road, I feel I am more likely to purchase a second NVME drive for my main system than a SATA SSD. And I'm not an early adopter of anything.

If this were a budget build recommendation here I'd agree with SPL Tech on this, but OP doesn't seem to be too worried about the budget and already has a very capable gaming rig. To be totally clear, the NVME won't likely offer many benefits for gaming alone, but I personally think that it would offer appealing benefits to the system in other areas.