Is it worth upgrading from X370 to X570?

[KowalSon]

Hi guys.
I want to upgrade my Ryzen 1700 to 3800x and was wondering if it's worth to grab new gen MBU as well. I have two other reasons that makes me tilt more towards upgrading MBU:
-I can't properly mount M.2 drive because i broke sth, it has to be mounted into slower slot.
-my ram is not officially supported by that motherboard and after few bios updates I managed to get it only up to 2933 Mhz. Upgrading CPU might fix that, but I'm not sure.
I wanted to ask for someone else opinion since I have some knowledge but it's clearly not perfect.

Atm my current specs look like this:
AMD Ryzen 1700, overclocked to 3.8Ghz and cooled by cooler master masterliquid 240
MSI X370 GAMING PRO CARBON
Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200Mhz 2x16GB CMK32GX4M2B3200C16
GIGABYTE AORUS GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme 11Gb
EVGA SuperNOVA 850 G2

Ps. I know it's a different category but might as well ask to not create other thread. Since Ryzen 1st Gen and 3rd Gen are both AM4, my cpu cooler shouldn't need any new brackets to mount it on 3800x, right?

 

[KowalSon]

You still have a very capable system. If I were you, I'd at least wait until the 3rd gen early adopter teething problems seemed to have been ironed out before making the jump. By then, you might be able to snap up a bargain along the way too.

With the AM4 socket being the same, yes your cooler will be able to fit using your existing mounts. Motherboard's RAM, VRM, etc clearance will obviously differ from motherboard to motherboard.

That's a good idea, forgot that 3rd gen just recently came out and I'm not particularly in hurry to buy it at this very moment. But in that case I would have another question. I follow tech very loosely, do you know how long it might take to fix the problems of first wave of CPUs/MBUs? Any kind of educated guess is enough, probably easiest would be using previous generations as example.

I don't think I will drop idea of upgrading (probably will buy both CPU and MBU), but I guess waiting to have less problems is for the better, especially since I'm not experienced enough to sort out any major issues that I could encounter.

 

[KowalSon]

If your existing board supports Ryzen 2 I'd stick with it. Were only likely to see one more Gen before a socket change AFAIK as DDR5 will need a larger platform change.

So if possible I'd hold onto your board for this upgrade then do a larger upgrade later.

While idea is pretty tempting, I don't know how I feel about waiting that long and DDR5 might have some issues at launch as well which can extend waiting for even longer. I will need to read some more about DDR5 to see if it's actually that impactful.

Since you're not in any rush to upgrade and you don't sound like you want to tinker/troubleshoot much with settings, you might wish to look out for deals in the build up to Black Friday.

It's not like I'm completely against tinkering or troubleshooting, if I was I wouldn't build that PC by myself when I could just buy prebuilt setup. I'm just afraid that I might encounter issues that I'm not able to solve, afterall it's my first PC build.
Waiting to Black Friday seems like a reasonable option. If I decided to just get CPU, 4 months should be enough for major fixes to be introduced to my older MBU bios. If i decide to get new MBU as well, most issues should be solved by that time anyway.