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Upgrade from 6600K or wait?

You made the best choice as now you have an upgrade path to Ryzen 4xxx next year without a motherboard change.
 
Vinno said:
Hey all,

I'll try to keep this quick, I'm currently running an i5 6600k OCd to 4.5 along with a RTX2080.

My pc is used for gaming mostly, along with some web browsing etc.
I game at 1440p and prefer to have everything on the highest settings for each game.

Up until the last few months that has been no problem at all, but in games such as Gears 5, The Outer Worlds and recently Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order I have been having issues. The games generally run at 60fps but I get stuttering here and there along with a spike to 100% CPU usage.

It's not a deal breaker but it's starting to annoy me a bit. I've been reading that 4 core CPUs are starting to struggle in modern games so I've been looking at possible upgrade paths.

I'm thinking that I should wait for the next gen of Intel's in the first half of next year? But with the black Friday sales maybe it's a good time to upgrade now?

Budget isn't a massive concern. The AMD 3950 is beyond my price range, but I could push the boat out and get something like the i9 9900k or even KS if it was a truly great upgrade which will last me 5 years or more.

Any help would be great.

Cheers!
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Bargain.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...games-only-314-99-with-voucher-code.18871682/
 
Vinno said:
I'm actually starting to wonder whether I should have gone for that 3800x over the 3600.
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Buy these and you'll forget about stupid upgrading in the next 7-8 years and possibly more :mad:
There are many disadvantages in upgrading every year as you intent - like the uncertainty that your entry level B450 board may not properly support the upgrade, possible need to install Windows again, all the wasted time to sell the old parts and buy the new, all the wasted time to disassemble and reassemble.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £705.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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Lol at the above. Just saw his sig too. Haha. He has confirmed he is a noob if it takes him a long time to change one cpu to another.

Guy spends hours on here every day recommending people the wrong stuff and posting fake news from wccftech and then talks about saving time doing a simple CPU swap over. I guess the time saved can be put towards talking more rubbish on here eh? Hahaha.
 
TNA said:
Lol at the above. Just saw his sig too. Haha. He has confirmed he is a noob if it takes him a long time to change one cpu to another.

Guy spends hours on here every day recommending people the wrong stuff and posting fake news from wccftech and then talks about saving time doing a simple CPU swap over. I guess the time saved can be put towards talking more rubbish on here eh? Hahaha.
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Be glad you made the 'Troll Honour Roll", this is the same as getting a "Man of the Year" from the forums! :D
 
TangoEchoAlpha said:
I am wondering if 4K8KW10 is actually Ryan Shrout posting on the forums?

OP, good choice. Nice upgrade with the option to slot Ryzen 4000 in next summer.
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Lol :D

I wonder what goes through his brain when he sees everyone disagreeing with him. My guess is he thinks we are all idiots and he is clever and is able to see things we cannot. What he does not get is “If everyone around you is so dumb you can barely handle it, the problem is likely you”. He won’t have this though and carries on banging on the same drum.
 
TNA said:
Lol :D

I wonder what goes through his brain when he sees everyone disagreeing with him. My guess is he thinks we are all idiots and he is clever and is able to see things we cannot. What he does not get is “If everyone around you is so dumb you can barely handle it, the problem is likely you”. He won’t have this though and carries on banging on the same drum.
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I'm on there too! Even made it his sig. Proper LOL. The guy owns a laptop and frequents PC building forums advising folk what to do using the 'google brain'.

I've come across some spacktards before, but this one has the force. Just keeps on giving too!
 
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Orange Nexus said:
Total £348


CPU R5 3600 £179

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3b9-am.html

Motherboard MSI B450 MAX £99

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-b450-tomahawk-max-socket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-33t-ms.html

RAM Ballistic 3200 CL 16 £70

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cruc...gb-kit-2-x-8gb-ddr4-3200-udimm-my-20b-cr.html

When Ryzen 4000 arrives, then decide if you need to upgrade.
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I am going to do this, what PSU would I need, I currently have a 550w Gold, would that be enough?

System currently has i5 6600k
Nvidia GTX 1070
2 x ssd
1 x hdd
4 x 4gb ram
 
Pogue said:
I am going to do this, what PSU would I need, I currently have a 550w Gold, would that be enough?

System currently has i5 6600k
Nvidia GTX 1070
2 x ssd
1 x hdd
4 x 4gb ram
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It will be yes, the 3600 is a lower power CPU than your 6600K.
 
I think I answered the question myself regarding the B450 vs the x570, looks like little benefit for my setup so might as well save the difference there. Should have google'd harder before asking ;)
 
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