Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Upgrading from 4 Cores to 8 Cores — Intel i7-7700K to AMD Ryzen 7 3700X — This is Huge!”.
Hello and welcome to tech deals. Pre-Built versus custom builds a topic. I’Ve discussed many times on my channel in the past and we will do so again today. This is the 720 cyber power pc that i first reviewed on the channel way back in 2016, and we will do so again today because it is getting a monster upgrade finally to ryzen in just a minute.
The camera is going to be overhead and you will see an edited and accelerated version of the entire build process. We live stream this to youtube recently, link in the video description below nearly three hours long, but not all of you want to watch the three hour version, and this contains my voiceover of the upgrade process, my thoughts and shall we say the edited highlights so without Further ado, let’s put the camera overhead and i will talk to you in some detail about this machine. The pros the cons and the end results of that upgrade enjoy this live stream. You’Re watching now was almost three hours long part of that is due to the natural interaction in chat. Part of it is running at the challenges during the build and part of it was going downstairs to get coffee.
Our new full-time editor xd has kindly trimmed the empty bits out and then sped up the footage to give me a chance to show you the upgrade and was hopefully a much more watchable form than a recorded live stream. Moving on to the topic of this upgrade, i am well aware that many of you turn your nose up at prebuilts thinking. The only way to get a decent computer is to build your own. It is true that you can only 100 control the build of your pc. If you do it yourself, and it does often save money in the process. However, you also have to consider two things.
First, it does take time to build a pc from scratch, which some of you will enjoy, and some of you will not. It isn’t hard to do, but it does take a while if you’re not used to doing it. Another point to consider is: if you drop something or electrostatic discharge damages something that’s on you. Well, modern parts are pretty dependable accidents and mistakes do happen. Part of what you’re paying an assembler for is removing the risk of damaging something during the build. Second, you end up having to be your own tech support if you build it and turn it on and something doesn’t work now. What do you have a shelf of spare parts to play swap the part and if so, then, yeah building your own might make sense? If not, you may find yourself rather stuck if your builds have always worked on the first try or perhaps you haven’t built one yet this might seem a little odd to you, but ask yourself this: if you turn on your pc and it just beeps at you, What do you do? First, you can of course, take out a ram module and try those one at a time. However, beyond that, if you don’t have a shelf of spare parts, you may not be able to determine what is wrong. Of course you can check the cable connections. Perhaps one is loose or missing, but if you have a bad gpu, cpu motherboard, psu storage drive, you might have no idea what needs replacing without additional parts to swap around with, if you’re doing an upgrade.
You can generally just put your old parts back, of course, and some of them are swappable to see if that might be the issue, but a completely new build can be a challenge with only one of everything i will be making a second video talking about all The challenges of building this pc because there were many if i had not had a stealth computer store in my office, this would have been pretty brutal. To be completely honest with you different part. Choices in the upgrade would have made this a lot easier and again i’ll talk about that more in the second video.
There really are two kinds of pre-builts: the acer dell, hp, etc kind and the cyber power pc and i buy power kind. This computer, more than any other i’ve covered, demonstrates just what is possible with a custom, pre-built computer. It has little of the original build left at this point today.
We’Re going to show you yet another leap forward. What started off four years ago, as an i5 sixth generation, with four cores and four threads, eight gigabytes of ram, an rx 480 four gigabyte, graphics card and one terabyte of hard drive space has been upgraded beyond this pc’s wildest dreams in 2016.. Now an upgrade was done two years ago on this channel, adding some parts, including more ram, more ssd, a new graphics card, but today’s upgrade is truly epic. We have a ryzen, 7, 3700x 32 gigabytes of ram four terabytes of ssd space and an rtx 2060 graphics card. The only remaining parts at this point are the case. The power supply the one terabyte hard drive, which is still in there and the dvd drive, which isn’t even connected anymore, because i don’t think we’ve ever actually used it.
Buying a computer from cyber power or ibuypower is nothing like an acer dell or hp. These are built with standard components and can be upgraded effectively forever. If you just keep swapping standard parts out, there are limits to some upgrades.
Of course it depends upon the case. Your pc came in the power supply unit it has, and what you’re trying to accomplish this case will never hold a threadripper, for example. Nor should it if you have that kind of budget a brand new build is completely appropriate. This has been upgraded from a 6th gen i5 to a 7th gen i7 to a ryzen 7 3700x, and it can easily be upgraded again in a few years when the am5 socket comes out to whatever new shiny thing comes along. There is enough room inside the case for any amount of graphics card. However, the 500 watt power supply unit – this came with means that something in the rtx 3070 range would be the most upgrade i do without considering replacing the psu. It came with one issue. I did have is that ddr4 3200 megahertz ram simply would not run at 3200 megahertz. Now the 3700x supports it without issue, but the x470 master sli does not, and it absolutely refuses to run at that speed.
It boots to windows just fine, but at 21.33 adjusting the ram speed to 3000 manually fixed it and it works just fine at that speed performance is absolutely great. The cooler master hyper 212 black is silent and it cools the 3700x without complaint. I have no doubt this will continue to give my son amazing performance for many years to come. Speaking of upgrades, one question many of you may have is why why upgrade this at all? What was wrong with an i7 7700k and 16 gigs of ram that he had before in fairness? Nothing, absolutely nothing was wrong with them. An i7 7700k and 16 gigabytes of ram is still a solid pc and, if you’re rocking that today, you may not need an upgrade like this. Depending upon what you’re doing. However, my son is about to turn 15 years old. He enters high school, this fall and he has been using blender for the past year, both in and out of school and just recently downloaded the unreal engine to try making his own game. He has also expressed interest in streaming to twitch and, while all of those things are in fact, completely possible on an i7 7700k and 16 gigs of ram – let’s be honest, they are better in every way. On an eight core, 16 thread chip like a 3700 x with 32 gigabytes of ram. Also, if i’m being completely honest here, i make tech youtube videos for a living, and i had all of these parts on the shelf. So there is that i probably would have waited another year or two before doing this, if i had to actually go out and buy all new parts and spend new money, but since they were here – and i make videos here – you go now – asrock was kind enough To provide the motherboard patriot, provided the ram and cooler master provided the hyper 212 black.
However, i bought the ryzen 7 3700x cpu myself and the pair of samsung, 860 evo ssds, as often is the case with my builds. Some of the parts are provided by companies and some of them i have to pay for so your support is greatly appreciated. Links to most of the parts used will be in the video description below to amazon, newegg and ebay. Those are affiliate links and using them when you’re shopping is one of the best ways to support the channel at no extra cost.
To you now, a few of the items here no longer make any sense. For example, i used an x470 motherboard here because it was on the shelf. So why not, however, i’ll link to x570 motherboards in its place, because that’s what you should actually be buying today if you’re spending new money? Likewise, the samsung 860 evo drives are nice, but totally not worth the money if you’re buying something new, because for a build like this, for an upgrade like this nvme is totally where you should be at. Please consider supporting us directly by hitting the join button here on youtube or supporting on patreon or floatplane, using the links down below in the video description both offer various benefits and all three provide access to the techdeals discord. The five dollar support level provides access to exclusive behind the scenes, videos, and it provides an additional level of support that lets us keep bringing you some awesome content, which is definitely appreciated if you do join using one of those methods in the two or the five Dollar level be sure to click the deals discord link down at the bottom of the video description come on over sync up discord to whichever service you use, you will be auto upgraded by the friendly bots over at discord, come by and say hello and introduce yourself. We have a great community of people over there. You can ask your questions and chat in a friendly, safe environment, free from shall we say, the wider body of the internet. It is a very nice place to be, and i am usually on there every day.
So i look forward to seeing you all come over and say hello. As i noted in the beginning of the video, there will be a second video on this, where i talk about the challenges of doing the upgrade itself, what i would do differently and one of the challenges of trying to do your own builds when you don’t have A stealth computer store in your office, which really does make these things much easier, so be sure to watch out for that coming soon to your favorite tech, youtube channel near you like this video, if you like it, share it with your friends, if you love it, Remember to subscribe to the website with a big, huge red button directly below questions, comments, thoughts, feedback suggestions. You know where the comment section is, as i mentioned before, links in the video description. They really do help. Please use those whenever you’re buying, even if it’s a jar of peanut butter, it all counts and it all supports the channel and it is greatly greatly appreciated. I look forward to seeing your thoughts on this one and i think my son very much looks forward to actually using it, especially since it’s taken us several days to actually get all this done and he’d like his computer back. Thank you all so much for watching. I will see all of you next time, foreign, you .