Tempted by this! Or a 3600 build?

Jay85 · 15 Jul 2019 at 17:09

On the rocking boat and since the i5 9600k is so cheap now, it is rather tempting to get this...

Or would you go for a 3600 build?

Jay

tamzzy · 15 Jul 2019 at 17:12

3600 + b450 + 3200mhz ram

8600k is a bit pointless. 6c6t is going to get old soon.

Speed · 15 Jul 2019 at 17:15

The whole "An i5 is enough for gaming" ship has sailed. At this stage you'd be better going for Ryzen 3600 in all but a few niche use cases.

orbitalwalsh · 15 Jul 2019 at 20:50

Speed said:
The whole "An i5 is enough for gaming" ship has sailed. At this stage you'd be better going for Ryzen 3600 in all but a few niche use cases.

I5 9600k still beats it in gaming, specially 1080p eSports / 165hz monitors with 2070 and a I've cards . But value is deff on ryzen side !

Get the Gigabyte Z390 boards ! Much better !

But ryzen better value with b450! Just avoid Reddit stories , lots of people seem to have issues with b450 and MSI and other vendors

Journey · 15 Jul 2019 at 21:01

orbitalwalsh said:
But ryzen better value with b450! Just avoid Reddit stories , lots of people seem to have issues with b450 and MSI and other vendors

Competency is playing a large part in individual experiences, you've got people who build a computer once every five years, or maybe even their first time so the level of failure vs success seems higher than it is. I am not denying some people are indeed having issues, and I'd imagine the lack of clarity of how the problem is being caused, bad equipment, bad BIOS, low skill level etc. doesn't help.

Jay85 · 15 Jul 2019 at 23:28

Is 3200mhz the sweet spot for RAM on the Ryzen chips? Any noticeable different with going with the slower 3000mhz? Bare in mind i only use it for gaming and the odd photoshop/lightroom editing.

Jay85 · 15 Jul 2019 at 23:31

Grafter67 · 17 Jul 2019 at 10:04

Jay85 said:
Is 3200mhz the sweet spot for RAM on the Ryzen chips? Any noticeable different with going with the slower 3000mhz? Bare in mind i only use it for gaming and the odd photoshop/lightroom editing.

You will not notice (1fps difference? in games at best)

Edit : you bought shiny nice RAM anyway. Health to enjoy.

Jay85 · 17 Jul 2019 at 13:25

Grafter67 said:
You will not notice (1fps difference? in games at best)

Edit : you bought shiny nice RAM anyway. Health to enjoy.

It's all about those aesthetics haha, i like my shiny glowy parts!

Would i notice a bigger gain in SLI 980ti rather than upgrading to a newer cpu and platform? Putting aside all the SLI arguments..