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2700X ->5600X a worthwhile upgrade?

Devrij

Devrij

Devrij

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Since getting my 3080 I'm CPU bound, primarily on single threaded speed, by my 2700X. The 5600X would sort that out nicely, and still end up being an overall upgrade even on max threaded workloads.....BUT it feels like a sidegrade since I'm losing two cores/4 threads.

Has anyone made this particular jump? I think it would be fit for purpose, but I also feel like it'd bug me losing the cores (but for £130 maybe that is just pointless egotism?).

What say you, my peers?
 
Yeah I think I'll hold off and then I'll have cash in the bank (I put 100 aside each month as my pc fund or it'd get spent on bills) so then I might splurge
 
Thanks gents. I think that as much as I'd probably be fine with a 5600x, I'll hang on a bit longer, see what happens to prices later down the line and whether that 5800X becomes palatable. I don't know what a 2700X goes for these days though, so potentially I risk losing whatever I save by then as well. Maybe I just scratch the itch now.

It's really on frametimes and mins that the 2700X is killing me, and I hate seeing my 3080 never at 100% usage as well.
 
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