QOTW: Which PC components did you upgrade in 2019?

[mojothejester]

Had my previous setup since September 2014, so thought it was time for an upgrade. Motherboard (z87x-sli to B450-A Pro), CPU (i5 4670k to Ryzen 5 2600x), Cooler (Shadow Rock Slim to Deepcool Captain 240EX White), RAM (g.skill ddr3 8gb 2133mhz to corsair vengeance ddr4 16gb 3000mhz), GPU (gtx970 strix to rtx 2060 gaming pro)... I plan on upgrading my monitor next year, and probably graphics again (either 2070 super or above, or amd 5800 series)

[chj]

https://media1.giphy.com/media/sUNqp...3&rid=200.webp

Damn am I waiting for that other shoe to drop tho..

It's hard to not overthink or self-analyse sometimes and just enjoy the present but it sounds like you've got a decent new rig so i hope you enjoy it!

[SUPERDUKE]

Nothing required this year still running with 7700k, GTX1080, 16GB RAM...Actually I'm telling fibs I did upgrade my monitor the old HP was nearly 10yrs old so finally took the ultrawide plunge and got a
LG34GK950F.
Given the choice, I'd go for AMD 3900x, 32GB RAM and RTX2080Ti with a Lian-Li 011 Dynamic case with custom EKWB res/cpu/gpu block, hard tubing and an Asus x570 Prime or Crosshair. As I don't have the
£2400+ as motorbike have taken priority this year it'll have to wait until at least 2021

[chj]

I have a I720 still and my motherboard blew. No budget for a new build so bought the exact same motherboard off eBay (P6X58D). Issue was the sound didn't frickin work so ended up also buying a pcie sound card. Maybe in a few years I'll get a new rig.

I did get a sata SSD for my laptop which has made a big difference for not a lot of money.

[jnutt]

Mobo CPU(Ryzen3700X) Boot drive(Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB NVMe M.2), Memory, PSU. GPU (RTX2070 Super). Very happy with the final result.

[3dcandy]

Mobo, cpu (Ryzen 2600) nvme ssd....

Although currently it isn't booting and it appears the cpu has failed

[Gentle Viking]

Oh and just to mention noctua again

I have ditched the ides of using 2 X 200 mm fans in my new build, so will order four Noctura 140 mm fans, and go creative with several radiators instead of 1 of those on the front of the case.
So i will be pushing around 400 CFM thru my intake radiators & case, at a reasonable low noise level under load and much higher pressure, and i need pressure as i am shooting for a "pressurized" case.

Also a excuse to hack even deeper into that case as its not build for 2 dual 140 mm rads in the front, so will have to make room for that.

[moshpit]

Absolutely none. I did a complete build in 2018 and have skipped 2019 all together for hardware upgrades because what I built in 2018 is still doing the job just fine. It's a pure gaming machine only and has run just fine on a 7700K, 32Gb DDR4 3200mhz, GTX 1080 Ti, 512Gb M.2, 6Tb HDD, 750w PSU. Nothing runs slow yet, so will likely stick to what I have until mid or late 2020.

[Euphonium]

My spare PC (i7-3770S 3.1GHz) got a second hand GTX1060Ti so my son can game on it when he visits.

One of my NAS boxes (an HP Microserver running NAS4free) got a pair of 4TB HHDs replaced with 8TB HDDs. Although they weren't advertised as such I suspect they might be SMR drives because the write speed has dropped :-(

My main PC (i7-3770k @4.2GHz, stock voltages, GTX980Ti, 2xSSD, 6xHDD) hasn't changed yet, but it will get the 2x4TB HDDs from the Microserver to replace smaller drives.

[Ozaron]

Motherboard, CPU, RAM, case. I also got a new laptop, but it's mostly for work and irrelevant.
MSI Z170A Plus -> MSI X570 Unify
Intel i5-6600K @ 4.3GHz -> AMD R7 3700X
16GB Kingston 2666MHz CL16 -> 32GB Patriot 4000MHz CL19
In Win 707 ATX -> Corsair Obsidian 500D

Helps with games, virtualization and casual rendering, and now it looks prettier. Moving from old to new board solved some dire microphone noise/static, and the only thing I'll consider upgrading for a while is GPU.
Gave 6600K and my old ASRock A320m Pro4 away to charity, maybe someone will get some value out of them.

[Wrinkly]

Still running a 3770k/1080Ti/1440p/32GB system. It's performing very well for both development and gameing. What I did upgrade was a couple of 512GB SSDs to WD 3D NAND 4TB SSDs, and a couple of WD 1TB BLACK HDs to WD 4TB BLUE during the Black Friday sales.

[technodean]

Too much, went from a 3770k and z77 to 2600x and x470 asus prime with 64gb ram, this week switched to a 3700x. Switched my RX580 to a 2060 super which has stopped photoshop from random crashes. EVGA 750w supernova for piece of mind from an ageing RM650

[fend_oblivion]

Got a new UPS.

[azrael-]

Are we talking "upgraded" as in done and dusted or do imminent upgrades count as well?

If it's the latter I have a Ryzen 3700X and an ASUS Prime X470-Pro incoming (as stated in the Black Friday thread), in addition to the 64 GB ECC memory and 1 TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus I bought in late summer. Apparently, there seem to be delivery issues with the motherboard.

Oh, and there's an unplanned upgrade as well. My G502 started to double-click this weekend, so another is on the way.

[SpeedyJDK]

Upgraded my Ryzen 7 2700X to a Ryzen 5 3600 - My Microsoft Wireless Display dongle got unstable.

Downgraded my Vega 64 to NVidia 1660 Super - A random crash that rebooted my machine and happened usually when i was not around. Is completely gone. Using a 5K Monitor, i would usually get a black left and white right side of screen and then it reboots. Never managed to solve where the error was.

There is nothing sane about computers But my machine is completely stable now. But i wish MiraCast would work flawless again. I can barely run a 720p stream flawless

[Ahkey]

Upgraded from i5-3550K with 8GB to Ryzen 3600 with 16GB.

This also allowed me to use the 500GB 970 Evo I've had sitting in a box for months, and to move from ATX to an mATX case. Altogether much faster in a smaller package.