Should I upgrade now?

george1976 · 6 Dec 2020 at 19:45

Serious question ladies and gents.

I have been thinking at this for about a week now.
I have the specs that you can see in my signature. I am mostly browsing and gaming at 1080p/60Hz at the moment but was thinking maybe, but just maybe 1440p in the future with a freesync display.
I would like to upgrade my mobo, cpu and ram and add a scythe fuma 2 to that.
Would have loved to go with a new 6 core Ryzen but availability is bad, so I glanced at the 10600k, MSI Z490 Tomahawk and 16GB Patriot Viper Steel.
Cant believe I am thinking Intel but.....it's cheaper now.
I would like this upgrade to last some 5 years at least.
What do you think? Would 6 cores be enough for the foreseeable future? Is this 10600k a good option?
I am not interested in 144Hz or 4k at all.

Thank you very much for your answers

george1976 · 7 Dec 2020 at 12:54

Joxeon said:
Get the 10700k if you want it last 5 years.

I would but would like it to be a bit cheaper
Was really thinking that I could get away with 6 cores

george1976 · 7 Dec 2020 at 21:37

EsaT said:
Also unless you're playing only slow paced games, then you should be interested about modern frame rates over ancient 60Hz.
(which was bad monitor refresh rate even in CRT era)

You will laugh, but, at the moment I am playing ACU, then it will be Dishonored, both of them, after that Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Metro Exodus, Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077.
I will very much prefer steady 60fps and high quality rather than high fps and stutter. My Vega 64 is not cutting edge GPU also

. Maybe I think like this because I didn't try high refresh rates yet. Not a first person shooter fan myself.

george1976 · 12 Dec 2020 at 13:52

I was looking on YouTube and it seems that this processor is doing fairly well at 1080p 60hz, it seems that the graphics card can be more of a bottleneck than the cpu .....

george1976 · 17 Dec 2020 at 17:54

Aaand for anyone who may stumble over this thread and has the same question, while running the built in benchmark from SOTTR I can't even select ultra, methinks it's because of 8GB memory and on high the GPU stays close to 80% but the cpu struggles when benchmark comes down to the market part.