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4790k to a 3600x

gazzaa

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As title has anyone gone from a 4790k to a 3600x and what was your experience like. As it’s what I’m thinking of doing
 
gazzaa said:
As title has anyone gone from a 4790k to a 3600x and what was your experience like. As it’s what I’m thinking of doing
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I went 4790k at 4.5ghz to 2600 and was really impressed, I bought the 2600 as a stop gap for 3700x which I now have, however kept the 2600 as pressie for sons birthday, imagine the 3600x is very decent
 
3570k @ 4.4 here to a 3700x both with the same 1080, feels nice and snappy again compared to before, BF1 and BF5 were starting to show its age, really impressed so far but still early days for me (built yesterday).
 
get a 8 core from your cpu. you will quickly regret in a year going to the 3600 instead of a 3700 or 3800. especially when new consoles drop. the 6 cores are great for now...1 year on you will be thinking i wish i got that 8core. or just hold out till end of year for the new stuff on both platforms with a decent upgrade again over whats out now.
 
Went from a 4770 to Ryzen 1600x, them to a 3600 (non X). The 1600x was more responsive, despite the 4770 overclocked to its limit. The 3600 is even better than the 1600X, so you'll notice quite an improvement.
I would either save money going with the 3600 or spending a bit more and going with the 3700X. I'm planning to keep the 3600 and later upgrade. Won't do it so fast if it was the 3700x thought.
 
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get a 8 core from your cpu. you will quickly regret in a year going to the 3600 instead of a 3700 or 3800. especially when new consoles drop. the 6 cores are great for now...1 year on you will be thinking i wish i got that 8core. or just hold out till end of year for the new stuff on both platforms with a decent upgrade again over whats out now.
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Or even better, you will sell the 6 core and buy a 8 or 12 core 4000 series CPU that will have more speed and much better IPC and put that in the same mobo?
 
Win 7 or Win 10? Got a 3900X to go with Win 10 and while its very nice and snappy it doesn't feel a whole lot different from the 4790k and Win 7. Putting win10 on the old 4790k however feels sluggish. Task manager reports up to 15% CPU usage while its idling in desktop mode not performing any tasks! At least none visible, can't say what its doing in the background probably constantly hoovering up details of my activity and sending it back to HQ. Ok maybe its because it was an updgrade rather than a full install (can't get it to recognise the key and its "digital licence" afterwards but..) it feels like treading water honestly. But thats always been the case new OS, old hardware, runs like a dog. At least with Windows.
 
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May be bit faster but then so will any clean install feel faster and If you are not struggling in game now why no wait a little longer.

I have a 4790k @ 5GHZ+Titan Xp 2100/12+GHZ and bottleneck is 9% going by that link but 20+% at stock 4GHZ and I play at 1440p so its more about the GPU but not 100%.

I do not have to mess with compatibility issues with RAM or issues OC'ing or Windows Sound issues like some of current AMD users so I can sit it out 2+years easy as got a backlog of games (this will be longest I have ever kept main hardware.
 
b00merang69 said:
May be bit faster but then so will any clean install feel faster and If you are not struggling in game now why no wait a little longer.

I have a 4790k @ 5GHZ+Titan Xp 2100/12+GHZ and bottleneck is 9% going by that link but 20+% at stock 4GHZ and I play at 1440p so its more about the GPU but not 100%.

I do not have to mess with compatibility issues with RAM or issues OC'ing or Windows Sound issues like some of current AMD users so I can sit it out 2+years easy as got a backlog of games (this will be longest I have ever kept main hardware.
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Just aviod one brand for Ryzen - Corsair Vengeance.

Got 3 Ryzen rigs. Last one i put together was an a320m system. Got the memory from Aliexpress called Maxun and it runs at rated speed using DOCP(XMP). Other 2 have each a 3200 MHz B and C- Die both can run at an oc.

Some just want to get the highest oc out of their kits, thus the use of DRAM Calculator.
 
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