Upgrade path from AMD A8-6600K?

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Hi All.

I'm looking for some advice with regards to the best upgrade path from my current rig, which is an AMD A8-6600K Cpu, with 16gb DDR3 Ram, and Asus A88XM-A motherboard. GPU is an 6gb Nvidia GTX1660.

Ideally I'd be looking to spend £550 or there abouts all in for CPU, motherboard, and ram. I have a Corsair 750W PSU, so hopefully this should be adequate.

Now this is where I'm needing advice. For my limited budget, I'd like the best performance for my money.

Usage wise, I won't be gaming on this system, but I will be doing photo editing / multimedia / 3d rendering. So ideally the more CPU power for my budget the better, but still leaving enough money for 16gb or more of decent ram


So am I better sticking with AMD, and going for something like Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 3700X or a Ryzen 9 3900X? Would the price / performance sweet spot be to go for the Ryzen 7, 3700X?

Or would going back to Intel again be a better choice? Something like an Core i7-9700K 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake)?

Thanks in advance!
 
If the rendering software can use the extra 4 cores then the 3900x would be a better fit. A b550 motherboard will add pcie4 and is 16 gb ram enough ?
 
Probably best waiting a month or so for the release of 12600k which with 10 cores and priced at around £250 is looking very strong for multithreaded workloads.
 
greengiant said:
Might be worthwhile moving this post to the "new to pc gaming and upgrade advice" board, I'm not sure how to do that
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Start a new thread if you feel the need or ask a mod to move it but myself and @Joxeon can help, others members may chip in. @EsaT @Quartz

Video editing i would want 32gb of memory you could be probablly get 3900x, 32gb 3600mhz memorry and a b550 motherboard in the £600 area.

How serious is your editing is it your job or just trying to get the best for your money ?
 
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Joxeon said:
Probably best waiting a month or so for the release of 12600k which with 10 cores and priced at around £250 is looking very strong for multithreaded workloads.
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Those 10 cores are going to be 6 heavyweight cores and 4 lightweight cores.
 
mickyflinn said:
Start a new thread if you feel the need or ask a mod to move it but myself and @Joxeon can help, others members may chip in. @EsaT @Quartz

Video editing i would want 32gb of memory you could be probablly get 3900x, 32gb 3600mhz memorry and a b550 motherboard in the £600 area.

How serious is your editing is it your job or just trying to get the best for your money ?
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It's just a hobby for me, but I feel I could do with an upgrade for my current system as it's starting to show it's age now.

Thanks mods for moving the post :-)
 
What do people think of this combination, based on a Ryzen 7, 3700X

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £515.42 (includes shipping: £10.50)



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Or this one, changing the CPU to a Ryzen 5, 5600X?

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £525.42 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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I won't be gaming on the system, mainly photo editing / video editing etc. So would I be best served with more cores on the Ryzen 7, 3700X, or fewer but faster cores on the Ryzen 5, 5600X?

GPU wise I'll be keeping my Nvidia GTX 1660
 
jigger said:
You could go with a 5700G within that kind of budget.
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I've already got an Nvidia GTX 1660 GPU so I'm not needing onboard graphics.

--edit-- also to add I've never had much success with OpenCL (open compute language) hardware acceleration on Linux using AMD GPUs / Apus, hence me using a discrete Nvidia card.
 
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It’s the best way to get a 8c 16t Ryzen 5000.
Recently AMD work really well with Linux. I’m not sure on open cl performance with an APU, I consider the 5700G more for the Zen 3 single chiplet configuration.
 
jigger said:
It’s the best way to get a 8c 16t Ryzen 5000.
Recently AMD work really well with Linux. I’m not sure on open cl performance with an APU, I consider the 5700G more for the Zen 3 single chiplet configuration.
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I'm still undecided whether the Ryzen 7, 3700X would be a better match for my needs than the Ryzen 5 5700G? Especially since the Ryzen 7 3700X has 8C / 16t compared to the Ryzen 5, 5700G 6C / 12t.
 
greengiant said:
I'm still undecided whether the Ryzen 7, 3700X would be a better match for my needs than the Ryzen 5 5700G? Especially since the Ryzen 7 3700X has 8C / 16t compared to the Ryzen 5, 5700G 6C / 12t.
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I do a bit of image editing(DxO) and the odd bit of video transcoding and the Ryzen 7 3700X works fine. It also comes with a CM Hyper 212 level class stock cooler,the AMD Wraith Prism RGB(it is a tad noisy but is a chunky cooler).

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The Ryzen 7 5700G is 8C/16T but has less L3 cache than the Ryzen 7 3700X or Ryzen 7 5800X. It also drops the PCI-E 4.0 capability of the latter two.

If you can find a good deal on a Ryzen 7 5800X,it is the best of the three CPUs mentioned(but it does run a tad hot so make sure you get a decent CPU cooler too).
 
greengiant said:
I'm still undecided whether the Ryzen 7, 3700X would be a better match for my needs than the Ryzen 5 5700G? Especially since the Ryzen 7 3700X has 8C / 16t compared to the Ryzen 5, 5700G 6C / 12t.
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The 5700G is single 8c 16t. The 3700X is two 4c 8t chiplets but has more L3 cache.

Im not sure which of the three would be faster TBH.
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £605.46 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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this combination is within budget if you look around
i suspect a 5800x + b450 combi would be a much better performing system for cpu heavy tasks than either the 3700x + b550 or 5600x + b550 builds you've listed
 
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