2600x to 3600 - is it worth it?

[Eledil]

Hi,

As I'm hunting for rtx 3070+, I'm also planning to upgrade my Ryzen 2600x as it would be bottlenecked by the new graphic card. Since there is a big price difference between 3600, 3600x and 5600x I ask for your opinion on what to choose. My motherboard is asrock x470 Master SLI and I'm using Noctua NH-U12A cooling.

 

[Eledil]

I'm using 1440p 155hz freesync monitor, therefore I need minimum 75 frames to keep the "gsync" working. On multiplayer games I prefer performance but for singles I'm happy with 80-90 fps and best visuals. At the moment I'm using 1080 so most of the time I'm playing on medium/high settings but there are titles like BF2042 or TW3 Warhammer coming where I would definitelly would like to experience best graphics with good performance.

 

[Eledil]

Newest Zen3 has similar performance increase from Zen2 than what Zen2 has over your Zen+.
So it would carry certainly further into future.

At least in case of only single architecture upgrade would look for upping core count to make sure there are enough cores for OS and background bloat to not affect cores executing game code.


155Hz (sounds weird, not 165Hz?) monitor should easily have range for low frame rate compensation, or is it some very old model?
It's 60Hz models which lack enough refresh rate variation range for LFC.

The monitor I'm using is DELL S2719DGF, normaly with 144 refresh rate but can be OCed to 155. As it's a freesync monitor on a nvidia card the refresh range starts from 60+ frames but it's only stable from 75+. If the frames are below that number the refresh rate doubles i.e. on 50 frames refresh goes to 100mhz which is noticable.

 

[Eledil]

To be honest that's my plan. My boys want their own pc and you can get bundles with mobo cpu ram cooler and 3080 so I would be having the cpu and 3080 haha

Do you have any link to those bundles please?

 

[Eledil]

Wait till you get the Gpu first then access your options for a CPU as prices have been falling lately and may fall even more by the time you have secured a GPU.

That said you may want to check this vid first and see if it's even worth upgrading the CPU at all going by the 1440p results.

Thanks, will definitely check this out. I'm not going to upgrade anything till I secure the GPU. I'm kinda forced to buy GPU+CPU+mobo+ram together as my old setup will go to my wife. Still not sure if I will need new PSU(I have OCZ500MSXP (for 1080) and CX750W(for 30XX) one).