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1600 with X370 bundle, or go 2600 with X470?

jamesgoss

jamesgoss

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Hi all

It's been a beast, but it's now time to retire my venerable i5 750 (getting slightly emotional...!).

I've seen a deal on a competitor's website for a Ryzen 1600 with an Asus Prime X370-Pro for £219, which is pretty nice. I had originally intended to get a Ryzen 2600 with an Asus X470 Carbon Pro, costing roughly £300.

I am also intending on upgrading to Ryzen 2nd gen when it comes out next year. I mainly game on my PC.

So...based on all the above, shall I go for the 1600 deal, or go with the 2600?

Thanks in advance!
 
Depends on how much the £80 difference means to you. Me personally would get the 2600 x470 mobo route as it's newer and improved with memory etc.
 
jamesgoss said:
Hi all

It's been a beast, but it's now time to retire my venerable i5 750 (getting slightly emotional...!).

I've seen a deal on a competitor's website for a Ryzen 1600 with an Asus Prime X370-Pro for £219, which is pretty nice. I had originally intended to get a Ryzen 2600 with an Asus X470 Carbon Pro, costing roughly £300.

I am also intending on upgrading to Ryzen 2nd gen when it comes out next year. I mainly game on my PC.

So...based on all the above, shall I go for the 1600 deal, or go with the 2600?

Thanks in advance!
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shame this deal ran out, sold a lot!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...-team-group-ram-free-240gb-ssd-bu-01f-am.html

£200 more then your current 2600 + x370 Pro- but that hasn't included ram . and below has free 480GB SSD and Ryzen 2700x!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...-team-group-ram-free-480gb-ssd-bu-01g-am.html
 
Personally I wouldn't buy last generation tech unless I really needed to keep the budget down. Even then, I'd keep it down by going X470 + 1600, given that you're planning on Ryzen 3000 next year.
 
The 2600 is overall about 15% better than the 1600 and i think X470 boards tend to be better than X370.

I would spend the extra £80.
 
jamesgoss said:
Hi all

It's been a beast, but it's now time to retire my venerable i5 750 (getting slightly emotional...!).

I've seen a deal on a competitor's website for a Ryzen 1600 with an Asus Prime X370-Pro for £219, which is pretty nice. I had originally intended to get a Ryzen 2600 with an Asus X470 Carbon Pro, costing roughly £300.

I am also intending on upgrading to Ryzen 2nd gen when it comes out next year. I mainly game on my PC.

So...based on all the above, shall I go for the 1600 deal, or go with the 2600?

Thanks in advance!
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X470 & 2600 is better imho
 
I'm sort of going to buck the trend on this OP's question. I would go for a 2600 but i would hunt around for a second hand CH6 as a mobo. The CH6 is a first rate mobo and can easily handle a 2600 to it's maximum and the ram as well. If the OP is thinking forward to Ryzen 2nd gen next year, you can bet your bottom dollar that AMD will push 570 mobo's. Think about it peeps, 2nd gen will be different to what we have now. Yes we will able able to run 2nd gen on current mobo's, but my view is that 570 mobo's will be the go to mobo's not 470 or 370.
Get yourself a nice second hand CH6 OP, then a 570 to go with 2nd gen.
 
Unless your system is broken and no longer works, you would be just as will off popping a Xeon X3440 CPU in your current setup (4core/8thread) most of which will do 4GHz+ with a decent cooler, and they cost about £15 at most.

Why, you ask? Well you said you wanted to go to Ryzen 2 when it comes out, this way you get the best new system next April rather than any compromise, and if your current system isn't broken then it'll easily squeeze the most from a GTX 1060 level card for another 6-9 months.

I assume you are running a nice fast SSD, Windows 10 etc. ? :)
 
Journey said:
Unless your system is broken and no longer works, you would be just as will off popping a Xeon X3440 CPU in your current setup (4core/8thread) most of which will do 4GHz+ with a decent cooler, and they cost about £15 at most.

Why, you ask? Well you said you wanted to go to Ryzen 2 when it comes out, this way you get the best new system next April rather than any compromise, and if your current system isn't broken then it'll easily squeeze the most from a GTX 1060 level card for another 6-9 months.

I assume you are running a nice fast SSD, Windows 10 etc. ? :)
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Had an i7 860 that clocked to 4ghz , swapped for i5 7600k that did 5.2ghz and using range of cards from middle to higher end saw 15fps gains 1080p/1440p . if second gen that hard to justify not slapping in i7 or waiting a little longer . Bit like swapping out FX for ryzen for myself, reason why intel put a lot of focus on moving people from first gen to 8th .


pandem0nium said:
Should see B450 boards very soon.
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some B450 boards are a massive jump, some are the exact same with better heatsink :(
 
Journey said:
Unless your system is broken and no longer works, you would be just as will off popping a Xeon X3440 CPU in your current setup (4core/8thread) most of which will do 4GHz+ with a decent cooler, and they cost about £15 at most.

Why, you ask? Well you said you wanted to go to Ryzen 2 when it comes out, this way you get the best new system next April rather than any compromise, and if your current system isn't broken then it'll easily squeeze the most from a GTX 1060 level card for another 6-9 months.

I assume you are running a nice fast SSD, Windows 10 etc. ? :)
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Good point actually.
 
Thanks for all your replies guys - sorry I haven't been able to respond myself, I've been away.

kitfit1 said:
I'm sort of going to buck the trend on this OP's question. I would go for a 2600 but i would hunt around for a second hand CH6 as a mobo. The CH6 is a first rate mobo and can easily handle a 2600 to it's maximum and the ram as well. If the OP is thinking forward to Ryzen 2nd gen next year, you can bet your bottom dollar that AMD will push 570 mobo's. Think about it peeps, 2nd gen will be different to what we have now. Yes we will able able to run 2nd gen on current mobo's, but my view is that 570 mobo's will be the go to mobo's not 470 or 370.
Get yourself a nice second hand CH6 OP, then a 570 to go with 2nd gen.
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That's an interesting one - having had a quick look at a popular auction site, I'm looking at at least £150ish, so is eminently doable...

Journey said:
Unless your system is broken and no longer works, you would be just as will off popping a Xeon X3440 CPU in your current setup (4core/8thread) most of which will do 4GHz+ with a decent cooler, and they cost about £15 at most.

Why, you ask? Well you said you wanted to go to Ryzen 2 when it comes out, this way you get the best new system next April rather than any compromise, and if your current system isn't broken then it'll easily squeeze the most from a GTX 1060 level card for another 6-9 months.

I assume you are running a nice fast SSD, Windows 10 etc. ? :)
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Now this is an interesting proposition. Having had a watch of this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez9KY6ayX50) where he was only able to overclock to 3.4GHz, I think I'll go with this option until Ryzen 3 hits. Some of the gains are crazy, and I've got a Megahalems in push pull so should be able to push it closer to 4GHz. And yes, using a decent Samsung SSD and Windows 10 :)

If only they weren't all being sold from China...
 
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