Worthwhile Upgrade (3770)??

[leezer3]

With the current Black Friday prices, I'm actually seriously considering an upgrade here, and would be very interested in anyone with thoughts, positive or negative

Current setup is a 3770 (non-K), Asrock Z75 board 32gb of RAM & a GTX1060.
Some gaming use (RPGs, train / flight sim), but primarily programming in Visual Studio.

I've priced up a basic upgrade with the following:

• Ryzen 2700
• Asrock B450 ATX
• 32gb (2x 16GB) of Corsair DDR4

This comes to just over £350, and I can't decide whether to pull the trigger or not

My biggest niggle with the current setup is that when working with a massive solution and Resharper, Visual Studio can be laggy as anything.
I believe this is limited by 2 primary factors- Disk IO and single core performance, neither of which this will really help too much (about 10% increase in single core, corresponding memory bandwidth increase also helping?)
On the flip side, Ryzen would allow me to stuff a NVME drive in and massively increase the disk IO, and Resharper will take advantage of the extra cores to some extent.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

You've answered your own question. Your current system is "laggy as anything". So upgrade.

Not sure about the ASrock B450 though. I'd buy the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max.

I wouldn't spend more than £140 on a 2700 though.

 

[TangoEchoAlpha]

If you feel that you are limited by single core performance, I would go 3600 instead of the 2700. Extra IPC and likely to get a higher clock speed than the 2700 also.

 

[Woodsta888]

I'd go with a Ryzen 3000 series CPU and get some B-die high frequency dual channel DDR4 RAM. Ryzen 3000 runs higher frequency RAM easier than 2000 series.

 

[Seearbe]

Ryzen 3000 will be better but as a question of cost, paying around £300 for a 2700X, Mobo and 32GB RAM for a barebones upgrade is pretty compelling.

 

[leezer3]

This is hard

Halfway considering waiting to see what we get on the 3800X as Gibbo has hinted, but even with a decent (20% ???) cut, that still rams up the budget massively.

 

[Quartz]

Ryzen 2700

Don't get a Ryzen 2700 - that's the last generation; get a Ryzen 3600 or 3700. And the motherboard of choice is the MSI Tomahawk MAX.

 

[Woodsta888]

This is hard

Halfway considering waiting to see what we get on the 3800X as Gibbo has hinted, but even with a decent (20% ???) cut, that still rams up the budget massively.

RRP for 3800X was £380 on release so they are well below RRP currently and moreso come friday. How much is anyone's guess. 3700X is below RRP too, they were £319 on release.

Choices, choices!

 

[Seearbe]

Don't get a Ryzen 2700 - that's the last generation; get a Ryzen 3600 or 3700. And the motherboard of choice is the MSI Tomahawk MAX.

I guess we need to see what happens in price on the 2700 and 3600 but there could be quite a gap in budget between those two options.

I can't see the 3800X ever making sense though.