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I had a Ryzen 7 3700X and it was a great CPU. It consumes very little power for an 8 core CPU. If you can get one for close to £100 that is a bargain. Zen3 will be better for gaming but as stated above I would get a Ryzen 5 5600 at a minimum. If you shop around it can be had for closer to £160 if there are discount codes available. WRT to motherboards,try and get something with reasonable VRMs. If you don't mind a shorter warranty you can B-Grade or damaged box B550 motherboards for much less.
 
just seen a feed on my phone ( you know how random stuff comes up based on your searches) the 5600 just got a price cut in usa ( down to $120) so hopefully that will trickle over here soon
 
From an i7-930 the good news is you can get a decent upgrade for not a huge outlay on second hand market.

I would completely bypass the options of 3rd and 4th gen intel, the savings really won't be that big compared to perhaps a Ryzen setup. I sold a 2700x/B450/16GB setup for £198 iirc over a year ago so nowadays I assume £200 can get you into a 3rd gen Ryzen.

One other consideration is what GPU you have, you talk about wanting to upgrade for gaming, but if you have say a 10 year old GPU then you won't see the full benefit from upgrading the CPU. What graphics card do you have?
 
HangTime said:
From an i7-930 the good news is you can get a decent upgrade for not a huge outlay on second hand market.

I would completely bypass the options of 3rd and 4th gen intel, the savings really won't be that big compared to perhaps a Ryzen setup. I sold a 2700x/B450/16GB setup for £198 iirc over a year ago so nowadays I assume £200 can get you into a 3rd gen Ryzen.

One other consideration is what GPU you have, you talk about wanting to upgrade for gaming, but if you have say a 10 year old GPU then you won't see the full benefit from upgrading the CPU. What graphics card do you have?
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the I7-930 is well gone -some years ago. the current set up is a xeon x5675

my graphics card is a Radeon RX 580 ( i believe i may have put 590 earlier) which while quite a bit behind the current stuff, is still i think a decent card, and above the min spec for VR ( which is why im looking to upgrade - i have an oculos quest2 and there are a few pcvr games id like to play - and can now, but sometimes ( not that often) gets a little choppy at times - so i dont need that much of an upgrade really but i may as well set myself up for another couple of years
 
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i thought, just for completeness i'd update

I bought a 3700X from the members market and stuck it onto a gigabyte B550M DS3H with 16 gig of ram

That cpu went onto that board with no issues ( and no bios update needed) and figured as that board also supports later cpus and has 4 mem slots, it gives me some scope to upgrade if i need to in the future.

Next up is an update to the graphics card though
 
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