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Which Ryzen for Gaming?

Craig87

Craig87

Craig87

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Which of the following would you suggest?

  1. R5 1600
  2. R7 1700

I'd expect I'd still be using this CPU in about 4/5 years. I would overclock it. It would pretty much just be used for gaming. Do you think the additional cores in the R7 are worth having for gaming in the next few years? Am I right in thinking that the additional cores of the R7 are of no use to gaming at the moment?
 
StarShock said:
Honestly I would go with the r5 1600 and put the extra money towards a better GPU or faster memory. Very few games use more than 8 threads, and while things will hopefully improve, by the time they do there will likely be other reasons to upgrade, so 8 core unlikely to have a substantially longer lifespan than the 6 core.
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Thanks. The 1600 is what I was leaning towards.
 
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