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Silly to upgrade to a 2700x now?

Haggisman

Haggisman

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I was looking at a budget upgrade to a 3600 in the near future, but with the Asus cashback promo on the 2nd gen Ryzen, I can upgrade to a 2700x for ~£70 less.

Would I be mad to do so, or does the price difference make it worthwhile?

Currently coming from an i7 2600 (not k), so I'm guessing either way I'll see a significant improvement?

My next gpu upgrade is most likely going to be from a 980ti to 2070 super (unless a 3070 comes out before April), if that makes any difference to the answer to the above question.

Cheers!!
 
Haggisman said:
I was looking at a budget upgrade to a 3600 in the near future, but with the Asus cashback promo on the 2nd gen Ryzen, I can upgrade to a 2700x for ~£70 less.

Would I be mad to do so, or does the price difference make it worthwhile?

Currently coming from an i7 2600 (not k), so I'm guessing either way I'll see a significant improvement?

My next gpu upgrade is most likely going to be from a 980ti to 2070 super (unless a 3070 comes out before April), if that makes any difference to the answer to the above question.

Cheers!!
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For gaming yes.

In games there is no difference really between the 3600/x and 3700x/3800x.

They improved the gaming on Ryzen with the 3000 series. a lot more consistent fps and higher lows.

If it's for professional use then yea probably 2700x.
 
It's for a combination of gaming & development work, more emphasis on the gaming side though, so worth the extra for the 3rd gen then? Am I right in thinking that other than a few Msi boards, I need a 2nd gen to upgrade the bios on a b450 motherboard?
 
Haggisman said:
I was looking at a budget upgrade to a 3600 in the near future, but with the Asus cashback promo on the 2nd gen Ryzen, I can upgrade to a 2700x for ~£70 less.

Would I be mad to do so, or does the price difference make it worthwhile?

Currently coming from an i7 2600 (not k), so I'm guessing either way I'll see a significant improvement?

My next gpu upgrade is most likely going to be from a 980ti to 2070 super (unless a 3070 comes out before April), if that makes any difference to the answer to the above question.

Cheers!!
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With Ryzen 7 2700X you will get more than 100% performance uplift over the i7 2600.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+2700X&id=3238
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600+@+3.40GHz

Also, consider Radeon RX 5700 XT for cheaper.
 
To be honest, that thought had crossed my mind - and to use the old parts as a living room gaming PC - but that does then mean I don't have the old parts to sell, which cancels out any savings on the card! :p

Otherwise I'm stuck running HDMI & USB cables through walls & ceilings which is going to a) be a pain, and b) again costs of cabling, trunking, decorating etc. is going to very quickly wipe out those savings.
 
Haggisman said:
Is that just using the steam Link app? I was under the impression that still uses gamestream?
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yep all via steam app on the shield. :)

edit: ignore the gamestream, go to the google play store - search for steam, install it and away you go. it works the same as a steam link but better.

edit 2: video isnt mine but gives you the idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfT13iHU0dE
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edit 3 : sorry at work so rememebering details as i go lol. gamestream is a separate thing to what im talking about, ignore that. its not needed, steam have there own android app.
 
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May be on to a winner there with the 5700xt then, as I already use the Steam Link app on the shield.

Think I'll see if there are any good black Friday deals on the 5700xt

Edit: derp, just realised you meant the 3000 series ryzen, not the rtx 3xxx... :p

Yeah, I'm going to go for the 3600 :) any point in going for an x470 over a b450 motherboard, or will I not really see the benefits? Eyeing up the Msi Tomahawk MAX
 
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Haggisman said:
Think I'll see if there are any good black Friday deals on the 5700xt
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There's also rumblings that the 5800 series are landing this year too. No dedicated ray tracing but the core performance should start punching at the top end with Nvidia. But then it's likely to be stupid money because if people buy Nvidia at stupid money there's no reason for AMD to charge less themselves.
 
I run a 2700x system.
I have moved to a new 4k monitor that does not have G-sync (which I previously had) and on which its Freesync will not work with Nvidia.
I have not noticed any difference in smoothness of play with my 2080ti.

I had the first gen Ryzen and the second gen seemed like gen one now knowing how to do it.
I suspect the same may be true of 3 and 4.
 
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