new home pc for gaming and solidowrks

I just built a system in March, i7-7700, GTX 1070, bunch of other stuff, that I use for gaming and Solidworks.

Thought I'd be good with a 250gb SSD and a 2tb 7200, bought another 500gb SSD a couple months later. If you'r looking at one of the m2 ssds do a lot of research, I see a lot of incompatibilities/space issues out there.

I really don't like my case, so I'm going to swap that out over the winter, prolly add 32gb ram (I have 16 now) when I do.

I briefly considered Ryzen, but decided against it for no real reason. Keep in mind, though, IIRC the Ryzen doesn't have on board graphics, so if you have an issue with your graphics cards you need to scramble.

The i9 looks interesting, 10 core(20?), whatever it is it's just sick, but it's also running about $1k. I seem to recall the performance difference isn't huge, though.

For the rig I have, I'm having no issues (other than the power cable to the mobo works itself free now and then), everything I run is full graphics settings.

I just built a system in March, i7-7700, GTX 1070, bunch of other stuff, that I use for gaming and Solidworks.

Thought I'd be good with a 250gb SSD and a 2tb 7200, bought another 500gb SSD a couple months later. If you'r looking at one of the m2 ssds do a lot of research, I see a lot of incompatibilities/space issues out there.

I really don't like my case, so I'm going to swap that out over the winter, prolly add 32gb ram (I have 16 now) when I do.

I briefly considered Ryzen, but decided against it for no real reason. Keep in mind, though, IIRC the Ryzen doesn't have on board graphics, so if you have an issue with your graphics cards you need to scramble.

The i9 looks interesting, 10 core(20?), whatever it is it's just sick, but it's also running about $1k. I seem to recall the performance difference isn't huge, though.

For the rig I have, I'm having no issues (other than the power cable to the mobo works itself free now and then), everything I run is full graphics settings.

My FX-9590 8-core is sick, and was less than $300.

I was looking at the 7700K but I saw the new 8700K was on the horizon. But then you get the AMD chips which just seem to have more bang for your buck as they say.

I like my case (NZXT switch 810) Only thing I don't like is that it is huuuugggeee. I bought it so I could water cool everything, which I could do and it was easy to install everything. But now it just seems too big for my needs. I would love one of those thermaltake P5's, if you havnt seen them they are more or less completely open or if you get the glass panels, just full glass so you can see everything.