QOTW: Which PC components did you upgrade in 2019?

[mers]

Rarely upgrade these days as I don't game and not interested in bragging rights , my PC is a tool for home and work use. My old one still runs perfectly and has never let me down ( Phenom11X4 965, Asus MB, 12GB ram, Radeon 6770 ). Just fancied a change when the Ryzens first came out but thought I'd let the dust and bugs settle let alone the inflated price of DDR4.
Well, come late 2019, Ryzen2 and acceptable prices for ram I bit the bullit , icing on the cake was finding that you can run Win7 on Ryzen even with an Nvme drive.
New build...
Ryzen 2600 ( Running @ 4.0 Ghz, Idle temp= 26 )
MSI B450 Pro Carbon
16 GB GSkill 3200 Trident RGB ( Running @3200 )
Sapphire Radeon 570 8GB ( 2nd hand Ebay bargain , overkill for me but hey ) )
Arctic Freezer eSports Duo ( Best value cooler out there by far )
Gamemax Sapphire glass case with fans ( Absolute steal at £50 , couldn't resist it )
500GB Samsung Evo Nvme ( Primary )
500GB samsung Evo SDD
Threw in a set of Aigo RGB fans just for fun as the glass case made it tempting. lol.
I think total outlay was about £750
All in all didn't need this as old one is good enough but boys and their toys, huh.

[Hasi]

Switched to AMD from Intel for the first time of life. AMD is better than I thought
i5 4670K -> Ryzen 5 2600
Asus Maximus V Formula -> Asus Strix B450
8GB GSkill Ripjaws -> 16GB GSkill Trident Z
Samsung 830 Evo -> AData XPG 8200 nvme
Kept my Corsair H100i since it compatible with the AM4 as well
Eying for 2060 or Rx5700 to upgrade my GPU

[RoganJosh]

Updated everything in September - as my previous build was 2 years past retirement. The difference is an absolute delight.
Phanteks Eclipse P400 Midi Tower
i7 9700k - watercooled
Palit RTX 2070 Super blower
WD Blue SN500 500GB NVMe M.2
Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200RPM
Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4
Mobo - Gigabyte Intel Z390 UD
Monitor - Dell S2719DGF 27 Inch QHD 155mhz Freesync

[Quartz]

Literally finished putting it together last night. Coming from a Haswell i5, B85 DDr3 mobo and RX480 4gb to:

Rzyen 5 3600
MSI B450 Tomahawk Max
16gb DDR4-3600
1TB M.2 drive
Rx5700

That seems to be a standard build these days.

[Dribble]

Bigger SSD - the thing that's changing fastest is the size of games - they are getting huge!

[Andydg52]

We've got 4 computers in the house and I upgraded all the hard drives to SSD's. ( Crucial MX500 )
And 1 graphics card, ( Can't remember which model )

[spacein_vader]

That seems to be a standard build these days.

Bang for buck it's hard to beat.

[Chris Mahon]

Ryzen 7 3700X, Aorus X570 Aorus Master, Corsair LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3600 C18 (PC4-28800) 1.35V Desktop Memory,Black (CMK16GX4M2Z3600C18). Nearly forgot to mention the Sapphire 11265-01-20G Radeon NITRO+ RX 580 8GB GDDR5 DUAL HDMI.Just need to complement it with very good NVMe M.2, thinking of buying the Gigabyte AORUS 1 TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSD in the next few days. The kit that it's replaced has been sold off or is in the process of being sold off. It's working very well together, but as I say, need to make use of PCIe 4. 0x4 interface, hence the Aorus 1 TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSD.

[Steve587]

Upgraded nearly everything - kept my Corsair case and power supply and system drives (a mix of SSDs and HDDs) then got a new Ryzen set-up - 7 3700X CPU with Gigabyte 570 mobo; Gigabyte RTX 270 Super; 500 GB Samsung 970 EVO M.2 PCIE drive, and 32GB team group memory, with Windows 10 (after years of resistance, being happy with 7).

[souper]

I upgraded:
AMD FX-8300 Eight-Core
Corsair Vengeance 32Gb DDR3
Sannobel G Plus 480Gb ssd
Win 10 Pro x64bit
MSI Geforce GTX 1650 Ventus (i may be upgrading again soon)

Maybe next year i'll upgrade more...

[Clarissa]

Just about managed to squeeze an RTX2060 into my little case, upgrading from a 5 year old 970.

I was enticed by shinies and reflections; tipped over the edge by the offer of Control and Wolfenstein Youngblood. And a cashback.

So far, so very shiny.

[kellyharding]

Some DDR3 memory to boost the plex server a bit from 8Gb to 24Gb has been about it. Too many other things have needed finances to be able to spend on upgrades this year.

Next year however... new SSDs and monitors are planned, funds allowing.

[Iota]

Upgraded everything apart from my case and my blu-ray player in it. Didn't find a case I liked, got so used to the depth on my old one and I just can't face the new ones with all the glass panels etc.

[Jason McC]

I upgraded my Cooler master CM690 Nvidia edition Case to a Corsair Obsidian 750D Airflow Edition case and EVGA GTX970 FTW2 to a EVGA RTX2070 XC Ultra

[Atari8bit]

Just upgraded from R9-270X for a RX5700XT.

Looking to finally upgrade my i5-4670K as there didn't seem to be any point in upgrading with any newer intel CPU's as didn't see the necessity for a like for like upgrade, up until Ryzen and then couldn't justify it until matured!

Don't like Nvidia for their market dominance and stance wrt milking as much as they can from their fan base (like intel), pity Matrox went to the wall on gaming cards, market could definitely do with more players in the field, ditto CPU's.

Ideal system atm would be Ryzen 3700X or better with NVMe and DDR4 instead of SSD and DDR3, but can wait to see what new ryzen brings to the table.

Intel deserve to be punished for their complacency as do NVidia.

[the_Unforgiven]

I swapped my Vega 64 LC for a 27" Viewsonic XG2703-GS monitor.
I got a 256GB NVMe for my everyday build & the 256GB Samsung SSD got relegated to my Games OS; I dual boot.
I went from 16GB RAM to 32GB RAM.
I got more HDD's for my DAS, so I took most of the HDD's from my case & put that towards my DAS, I now have 60TB of HDD's in my DAS
That is all I think, it has been a long year, and I for 1 can't wait for it to end