4770K to 3700X, worthwhile upgrade?

[starmanwarz]

So I just got a new 27" 1440p monitor and a 5700 XT to support it and now I got the total upgrade itch. I also wouldn't like my brand new GPU to be severely bottlenecked by my CPU.

I did some reading and it looks like the 3700X is the most popular chip right now, followed by the 9700K.

My question is, would I notice a difference in gaming going from a 4.5Ghz 4770K to a 3700X (or 9700K) or is it not worth upgrading right now? If I were to upgrade, I'd have to buy quite a few parts:

CPU
Cooler (unless I can use my current Noctua D14?)
Motherboard
RAM (Seems like RAM is very important now?)
Case
PSU (unless I can use my current one, a Seasonic G-650 Gold?)

Also, I'd really like to avoid having to overclock again as I don't have the time or the desire to do so, from what I understand these CPU's OC on their own?

Would the gains from such an upgrade be enough to consider spending for a new system?

 

[starmanwarz]

Thanks everyone. It looks like it's worth it.

I just installed my 5700 XT nitro, maxed most settings and played for a few minutes, run the AMD interface thingy and the log afterwards said that the GPU utilization was at 78% (77-83) and CPU at 32% (30-39).

What does this mean exactly? I had quite a lot of stuttering, is the CPU holding me back or perhaps my 8GB of RAM?

 

[starmanwarz]

Check RAM utilisation

It says 7 on the Excel. i guess 7 out of 8GB?

I run the Borderlands 3 benchmark and GPU was at 97% for the most part but it did drop to 60-70% quite a few times.

 

[starmanwarz]

I decided to upgrade so I'm in the researching process (it's been a long time since I did that!).

Quite a few parts to decide, so far I think that I'll be going for a 3700X (although that slight 9700K edge on gaming is nice), a Tomahawk MAX (or x570 chipset?) 16GB of DDR4 3600Ghz C16 RAM (sounds good?) and a Fractal R6 case.

I'll be keeping my current Seasonic G-650 Gold PSU (bought in 2013) and Noctua D14 CPU cooler (also bought in 2013, maybe the stock 3700X cooler is better?)

Got plenty of reading to do, any recommendations are welcome

 

[starmanwarz]

So far I have ordered the 3700X, a Fractal Design Meshify S2 case, the AM4 kit for my Noctua D14 and I'm about to order the Tomahawk Max (need to read some more). Any RAM recommendations? I hope my Seasonic G-650 will be ok for my new build?

 

[starmanwarz]

I felt the same way. On the initial BIOS I had some difficulty getting the RAM to run its XMP profile, some difficulty getting the OS installed, and there were also intermittent WHEA errors. Since then it's been 100% stable, not even an application crash, and the WHEA errors have stopped. Performance has been very good, not only in terms of gaming frame rates but the extra cores have made a big difference with how much I can have running without having to worry about it.

Just for reference I went with the following kit:

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Eight Core 4.5GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail
Team Group Dark Pro "8Pack Edition" 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C14 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit
Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard

+ a cooler, and reused the PSU from my previous build.

May I ask why you went for a 570 board instead of a much cheaper B450 (Tomahawk Max for example?)

I'm having a really hard time deciding. (between the Aorus Pro and Tomahawk Max)