1600X upgrade?

[Telecaster]

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?

 

[Telecaster]

I dont think you would gain much by going to ryzen 2 cpu,better graphics card would gain you more fps.

But surely if the 1600x is a bit of a bottle neck with current GPU then upgrading won't get the best from the upgrade?

 

[Telecaster]

Currently using one of my 1070s but thinking of going back to a 1080ti.

 

[Telecaster]

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?

 

[Telecaster]

I will see how it goes and see what it clocks to ( I don't think he even overclocked it)

Would it benefit much from delidding?

 

[Telecaster]

It works out at hardly any money because he'll let me have them for pretty much what I will get selling my current stuff. Yes he's daft.

 

[Telecaster]

If you're getting it for dirt cheap then go for it. Compared to my previous 2600K I haven't really seen much CPU bottlenecking on my 1600X at 1080p.

TBH that is the only reason I'm considering it. After I started the thread I thought about it a bit and decided I wouldn't bother, then this chap (a friend of my boss) piped up about getting rid of his rig and here I am.

I will make sure to benchmark most of the things I play before/after. I don't do any sort of multi threaded productivity so that side of things is moot.