£400 to buy a new CPU

[BobShark]

The 5900X is on offer today.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3ca-am.html

Not a bad deal that.

 

[Alan1969]

5600x would be very good and probably still overkill for many years even if you upgrade your GPU to a high end card. I have a 3600XT and very happy with it (seems noticeably better than the 3600)and often have a monitor in the background showing how many threads are in use and typically only 4 out of the 12 threads are used at any moment. However saying that, I recently built my son a pc and as he will be away at uni and I wont have the opportunity (or his permission to fiddle with it) then I went straight for the 5900X to last >8 years! The 5900X is totally overkill but most of us cant resist and you will not have to upgrade the cpu ever again (unless at the start of next year you go for the 5900XT 3d chip).

 

[g67575]

The 5600x would be a good stop gap CPU (power efficient too), while you wait to upgrade to Alderlake or Zen 4 in 2022.

 

[-Ad-]

Nice replies in this thread, thanks for the tips.

Also looking to build up a Ryzen rig to finally retire the i5 Sandybridge from gaming duties, should I ever get home from working abroad

 

[humbug]

The guy doesn't need a 12 core CPU, Good Grief guys stop it

This is more than enough, Ryzen 5600X https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3cc-am.html
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Elite V2, great board, £140 https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...2-amd-am4-b550-atx-motherboard-mb-593-gi.html

Comes to £390 for the board and CPU, that CPU will run an RTX 3090 at any resolution no problem.

Edit:

MSI B450 gaming carbon pro OC

I'm not sure but i think this board is Zen 3 ready?

 

[DNfk]

I say maybe second hand 1070 or 2060

 

[handyandy24]

If that is your budget grab the 5800x

 

[CreamyNutella]

5800x trays on markets or just push for the 5900x on offer on OCUK

 

[EsaT]

I'm not sure but i think this board is Zen 3 ready?

It came out before Zen3.
But support in BIOS or no support doesn't really matter.
It has USB BIOS Flashback allowing updating to latest BIOS even if user didn't have previous supported CPU to do BIOS update.

 

[humbug]

So yes then

 

[koooowweeee]

a new GPU is what you need, not a CPU.

 

[harmattan]

I'm not sure but i think this board is Zen 3 ready?

The B450 Carbon Pro is not Zen 3-compatible out of the box, but yes, there is an official BIOS update that support Zen 3. In fact, the MSI b450/x470 "Pro" versions are considered the best previous gen AM4 boards since they retain better Zen backwards-compatibility than other mobos since they have a full 16MB BIOS chip (as opposed to other b450/x470s that don't have the memory to fully support all prior Zen CPUs + Zen 3.

 

[harmattan]

The B450 Carbon Pro is not Zen 3-compatible out of the box, but yes, there is an official BIOS update that support Zen 3. In fact, the MSI b450/x470 "Pro" versions are considered the best previous gen AM4 boards since they retain better Zen backwards-compatibility than other mobos since they have a full 16MB BIOS chip (as opposed to all other b450/x470s that only have 8MB and cannot fully support all prior Zen CPUs + Zen 3). Also, and I'm assuming, the actual update operation may be simpler for that reason. [/QUOTE]

 

[LordBeggar]

If you want to save money and if it's purely for gaming then go with 5600x

 

[greatash]

I've had a 2600, 3800x and 5800x on that b450 board it's great