Silly to upgrade to a 2700x now?

[Haggisman]

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]

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]

I have an Nvidia shield for streaming to the TV, so need to stick to team green unfortunately!

 

[Haggisman]

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!

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]

i stream to a shield via steam, even with non steam games, works perfectly fine with a vega gpu just as an fyi.

Is that just using the steam Link app? I was under the impression that still uses gamestream?

 

[Haggisman]

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...

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