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Worthwhile Upgrade (3770)??

Soldato
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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 :P

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 :P

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.
 
This is hard :P

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.
 
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