What to keep between Ryzen 1600X and i5 9600k

[muppetthumper]

Hi folks
I've got a Ryzen 1600X system which I built 4 years ago, and have just inherited an i5 9600k system sans graphics card. I'm not going to keep both and wondered whether the performance differential should favour offloading the 1600X in favour of the 9600k for now? My usage is moderate - spreadsheets, too many Chrome tabs and some gaming. No video editing. To be honest the 1600X is performing fine, but the i5 comes with double (32GB) and faster RAM at 3000Mhz that I'm not sure my Ryzen Killer X370 motherboard could fully utilise.

I'm pretty agnostic brand wise and obviously there are other considerations around the associated components (no space for onboard wifi/bluetooth on the Intel motherboard, for one) & aesthetics.

I'll probably build a brand new Ryzen system when they move to AM5 socket. Any thoughts would be welcomed.

 

[muppetthumper]

Is this your motherboard: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370 Killer SLI/index.asp#Overview ?

That's the one yep. The new RAM isn't listed in the compatibility table but there is nothing to stop me testing it of course.

My next upgrade will be Ryzen but with AM5 socket, I won't bother upgrading current CPU if I keep the 1600X when we are just one or two generations away from AM5.

Thanks for your comments.