Should I?

I have a self-built 2700X with an RX 580. The video card is slowly going out. (Occasional black screens while under load) I basically just play WoW but I just got a 1440p monitor for Christmas so I was really looking for an upgrade. I realize how not awesome my timing is… Anyway, after the keynote, I saw Dell updated their Alienware R10 offering to include Ryzen 5K and Radeon 6800s. With how constrained everything seems to be I was wondering what you thought of this config and pricing being what it is. Also, I of course intend to put my own RAM and SSD. I didn’t want to give Dell the upgrade pricing for that.

ALIENWARE AURORA RYZEN™ EDITION R10 GAMING…
Processor
AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X
Video Card
AMD RX 6800 XT

Dark Side of the Moon chassis with High-Performance CPU Liquid Cooling and 1000W Power Supply

8GB HyperX™ FURY DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz; up to 64GB (additional memory sold separately)

1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s

Dell Wireless DW1810 (1x1) 802.11ac with Wi-Fi

$1,809.99

Reasonable thing would be to just search for a GPU second hand, preferrably with still some warranty (remember to get receipts etc).

RTX 2000- and RX 5000 -series are very competent cards and that 2700X is still a banging CPU, no doubt. Getting a completely new prebuilt just because current new generation GPUs are in short supply feels a bit unnecessary.

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I would hold on to they GPU until it does completely.
The GPU market is absolutely insane at the moment. I checked a store for a.monitor I’m looking for and I see RX570 for 300+ euros…
What I would suggest is maybe try and look for something on the used market, but literally replacement 580 or something. I would not spend the insane GPU pricing right now.
I also wouldn’t buy an entirely new system just because my GPU is going out. At this point probably just try and find a replacement 580…

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What motherboard is in that as Alienware and Self-built don’t jive.

Unless you mean to buy a whole new system built Alienware.

I agree with the others here, your current CPU and motherboard should be more than enough to handle most things until 2025 or so.

As for GPU, you could also ask a repair shop to reflow the solder on your current GPU, often that can help.

Otherwise I would look for either a deal on 2070 or 5700 XT ($300-ish), or get another 580 / 590 for now.

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Playing with OEMs, will need you to play with OEM derived parts, down the line…

Hold off, as long as you can [before GPU completely goes kicking bricks]. Gougery is abundant A T M, for collective of “new” components [even if they’re approaching 2+ gens dated]. Scour 2nd hand market / eBay / etc., in the meantime, for something competent for your graphical wants a/o needs.

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If I was able I would have marked the lot of the responses as the solution. I will cool my jets! :slight_smile:

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