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1600X upgrade?

Soldato
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I bought my current rig during last black Friday event- Strix B350F Gaming, R5 1600X and 16GB of the 8 Pack RAM, back then I was using a 4k TV but have since swapped a couple of months back to a 1080p 240hz Gsync monitor for gaming.

Reading around it seems I might be losing some frames at 1080p with the 1600X, would the new Ryzen 2 drop straight in and would it be a worthwhile upgrade?
 
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I bought my current rig during last black Friday event- Strix B350F Gaming, R5 1600X and 16GB of the 8 Pack RAM, back then I was using a 4k TV but have since swapped a couple of months back to a 1080p 240hz Gsync monitor for gaming.

Reading around it seems I might be losing some frames at 1080p with the 1600X, would the new Ryzen 2 drop straight in and would it be a worthwhile upgrade?

Did you know you were losing frames when you were playing or was it cause you read about it. If it's the later and your having fun just leave it.
 
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The one bit of information missing here is what video card you are using - the 1600x may be a bottleneck if you video card is a 1080ti for anything else there isn't much in it.
 
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Yeah, 1080p 240hz, You're well into intels stomping ground.

That said, what GPU are you using and what sort of FPS are you getting?
Monitor your GPU usage in games, i'm your pegging at 99% usage most of the time you won't gain a lot from a processor upgrade.
 
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if you on a high hz monitor you want intel as some are suggesting.amd can be close in some games in other modern titles in mp the fps difference can be 20-30 fps . that is even with a low end i5 8400 vs the top ryzen chip.

what gpu you have ?
 
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Yeah, 1080p 240hz, You're well into intels stomping ground.

That said, what GPU are you using and what sort of FPS are you getting?
Monitor your GPU usage in games, i'm your pegging at 99% usage most of the time you won't gain a lot from a processor upgrade.
its mainly about minimum frame rate with the cpu. you wont probably see the drops in monitoring software, but you will feel the drop while playing, as stutters or similar.
 
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An interesting opportunity has come my way.

I know someone with more money than sense who is always chopping and changing, he'll let me have his barely used X299 OC Formula board and 7740X for pretty much what I can get for my stuff, worst case scenario I don't get on with the 7740X and I can keep the X299 board, sell the 7740X and throw in one of the bigger 2066 chips instead.

Reasonable plan?
 
Soldato
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An interesting opportunity has come my way.

I know someone with more money than sense who is always chopping and changing, he'll let me have his barely used X299 OC Formula board and 7740X for pretty much what I can get for my stuff, worst case scenario I don't get on with the 7740X and I can keep the X299 board, sell the 7740X and throw in one of the bigger 2066 chips instead.

Reasonable plan?

I thought X299 was kinda trash in gaming compared to coffelake because of the architecture? Correct me if I'm wrong though.

1080p 240hz has to be an 8700k imo.
 
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