What's the go-to value CPU for 1080p 60FPS these days? (w/ DDR3 RAM)

[OzzyOscy]

Update: All bought:

3600 (£164), MSI B450M MORTAR MAX (£96), 2 x 8GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance (£65) = £325

Selling my CPUs, RAM and dodgy boards should make back half that.

Thanks everyone!

 

[OzzyOscy]

Honestly no point in upgrading your cpu really, you're not going to get much performance gain staying in anything that supports ddr3 unless you go down the x79 and an old xeon, but I wouldn't recommend it.

That's what I'm learning fast haha. So how about DDR4 CPUs, since (as Joxeon said) I'd be selling my CPU and RAM anyway in that case?

A b450 with a ryzen 5 3600 and 16gb of ram can be had for around £300 which if you sold your ram and CPU and added that to your 150 budget it wouldn't leave you much short, it's just not worth spending 150 on 9 year old hardware.

So far that B450 and Ryzen keep coming up!

 

[OzzyOscy]

Which B450 mobo would I even go for? The tier list doesn't make sense to me with talk of maxing out and draw and not sure what I should be going for.

 

[OzzyOscy]

The best B450s are the msi tomahawk, mortar and pro carbon which are even capable of running 16 cores CPUs. A cheaper option would be the asrock pro4.

No problems with MSI? Someone else said it has unreliable drivers and people have to use 3rd party software.

I have an overclocked 2700K still, no plans to replace it yet. It sits at 5GHz normally (4.6GHz in this hot weather) and it still does the job fine playing games in 4K etc.

Yeah, if I had a working board I'd stick with it.

So I could spend £60+ on a used motherboard on Ebay that could really be any condition, or net spend £100 to buy a new Ryzen system with warranty (£120 3300x + board and RAM, then sell my CPUs, RAM and dodgy boards for £100+). Ryzen is looking very appealing.

 

[OzzyOscy]

I've watch a good vid and he's pretty definitive that I should get the B450M Mortar Max.

Tomahawk is £20 or so more, but he's high on the Mortar even over the Tomahawk and unless anyone chimes in, I don't know what real benefit it has. (Does size really matter?

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So 3300x (£120) + B450M Mortar Max (£100), just RAM left right? Anything to worry about or compatibility issues? I just need 3200+MHz, if not 3000, apparently.

Edit: So just went on a store and sorted by price for an example, like:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...zen-tuned-ddr4-memory-dual-kit-my-4bx-cs.html

So if you were to look at that, would it make you go "ooh, don't buy that because-"?

 

[OzzyOscy]

It's done.

3600 (£164), MSI B450M MORTAR MAX (£96), 2 x 8GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance (£65) = £325

Selling my CPUs, RAM and dodgy boards should make back half that.

Thanks everyone!

EDIT: I said I was getting a 3300x for £120, but I remembered the 3600 was on sale, so I derped and will have to cancel that 3300x!