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Mini upgrade of Ryzen system ~ CPU advice

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I built a new system in July last year just when GPU pricing kicked off. And I'm interested in a mini upgrade.

Current system is


CPU~~~~~~~ Ryzen 5 1500x
Motherboard ~ Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5
RAM ~~~~~~ Avexir Core Green Series 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4
GPU ~~~~~~ Gigabyte 1050 OC (added a few months ago to replace stopgap GT 780 & tide me over till gpu prices drop)
PSU ~~~~~~ EVGA SuperNOVA 850w G3 PSU

I'm thinking of getting a Ryzen 7 1800X (when the rest of the threadrippers come out in August & October - hoping prices might drop a tiny bit then)
Regarding the CPU, yay, nay or something else?


PS The GPU will happen when the 1100 series comes out & will probably be a 1080.
Nothing else is being upgraded
 
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Hi
I have a triple monitor setup
1 x24 inch for cctv only (1920x1080)
1x 27 (1920x1080)
1x32 (2560x1440)

I'm playing Sims 3 with ALL Expansions & LOADS of CC this thing taxes both GPU & CPU And loads of custom made worlds added on.

(first person to google the recommended specs for an individual expansion pack or the base game on its own & quote it at me gets sent to Coventry) :D
 
I am going bankrupt here. :D
But hmmm do want

EDIT I just chucked some money at overclockers. Dual channel 32GB RAM kit & 1Tb SSD (old one is 250GB) heading this way.

Now back to CPU's :)
 
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My Mrs is a huge Sims player and heavily involved in the community. Although predominantly on The Sims 4 now, we recall TS3 (with all packs and CC) as being poorly threaded and 32bit non-large address aware, meaning it can only use 2Gb of memory. However you can patch the executable to become large address aware this allowing the process to address 4Gb.

Therefore fewer, but faster CPU cores will normally be best and memory beyond 8Gb-16Gb will not be beneficial, however memory bandwidth certainly helps. Moving both the game files and save game directory to an SSD is very beneficial.
Hi thanks :)

I'm already on an SSD but it is only 250GBs, the 1TB SSD is arriving from OverclockersUK tomorrow with the dual channel 32GB RAM kit.
The comments in this thread & speaking to OC on the phone has convinced me to go with a Ryzen 7 2700x rather than an 1800x

The question is do I get it now or wait for the upcoming threadrippers to be released & see if that will cause a price drop on the Ryzen 7 2700X? Then the next thing will be a better GPU (1080?)in the next few months.
 
The 2700X is a much better choice than the 1800X due to higher per core performance and improved memory speeds. It'll also be great for just about anything else you wish to do with your computer. Make sure your motherboard BIOS is updated to support the new CPU before swapping over though.

I'm not sure if Threadripper impacts the cost of mainstream Ryzen that much, I think the first gen prices dropped more due to the Ryzen 2xxx line launching. On the GPU side a 1080 is an excellent fit for a 1440p screen, assuming that's the one you game on. As you've said though, it's probably worth waiting to see what the next nVidia generation brings, even if that just means better deals on the 1080.

Fore reference, my wife runs TS4 with all packs with a spec identical to mine below and it flies. TS4 performs much, much better than TS3 but the benefits should be similar.
I have Sims 4 with all expansion packs installed too. I reinstalled Sims 3 with everything plus custom cc after getting sick of the lack of terrain & world editing options & restrictions of Sims 4. I'm hoping with these upgrades I'll be covered for another couple of years.

The OC UK chap said what you said. He didn't think that the threadripper releases would have any impact on the Ryzen 7 2700X prices, drat!:(
My next trick will be to clone my 250gb SSD onto the new 1GB SSD tommorrow. If I lose my Sims stuff I'm going to go into mourning. Plus reinstalling Windows 7 on Ryzen is a massive pain
 
I'm pretty much definitely (99% sure) going to buy the Ryzen 7 2700X now. Overclockers should pay you lot commission.:D
I think I should wait a few weeks though just on the very very very remote chance it drops by a few quid.
 
Your upgrades make no sense at all. Why on earth have you upgraded to 32GB RAM and added a 1TB SSD?

Also, your original purchase could have also seen you get a better graphics card and CPU with a lower spec PSU and motherboard.

Your best upgrade now would be a Ryzen 5 2600 and then overclocking on the Wraith cooler first, and if the overclocks aren't stable then upgrade the cooler. But at the moment you're throwing money at some upgrades that make no sense at all for the benefit you're after.
I bought the motherboard on the basis of what I needed & being future proof
I bought the best Ryzen cpu I could afford at the time.
And as clearly stated in the first post
GPU ~~~~~~ Gigabyte 1050 OC (added a few months ago to replace stopgap GT 780 & tide me over till gpu prices drop)
The system was built the week the prices shot through the roof so I couldn't get the 1070 I was after.

Upgrading to a 1TB drive when my 250GB was nearly full makes absolute sense.
 
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