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i5 8400
H310M mobo
16GB 2666 DDR4
RTX2060
So I'm wanting to upgrade my pc and I realise that the CPU is definately my bottleneck at this point.
I don't know what my best course would be with that kind of budget. Do I go 9th gen Intel with like a 9600/9600k (worth noting that the mobo is out of a pre-build and though the spec sheet for the model officially supports 9th gen the bios is completely different and I cannot seem to update it as it appears to be a slightly bespoke model so I can't 100% confirm this) or do I go pre-owned Ryzen with a second hand Zen2 CPU and Mobo (if that's even in my budget) and bottleneck my RAM (as I know Ryzen prefers 3000+ RAM).
Thanks in advance.
i5 8400
H310M mobo
16GB 2666 DDR4
RTX2060
So I'm wanting to upgrade my pc and I realise that the CPU is definately my bottleneck at this point.
I don't know what my best course would be with that kind of budget. Do I go 9th gen Intel with like a 9600/9600k (worth noting that the mobo is out of a pre-build and though the spec sheet for the model officially supports 9th gen the bios is completely different and I cannot seem to update it as it appears to be a slightly bespoke model so I can't 100% confirm this) or do I go pre-owned Ryzen with a second hand Zen2 CPU and Mobo (if that's even in my budget) and bottleneck my RAM (as I know Ryzen prefers 3000+ RAM).
Thanks in advance.