x58 replacement bundle?

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KungFuSpaghetti

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I've not been a PC gamer for over a decade and built up an x58 system almost a year ago to do some gaming and home working (voiceXML coding for ACD/IVR) but I fancy upgrading.

I'm not really sure what best to do though. My current system plays all the games I throw at it fine, so my upgrade is more want the necessity, but would be nice to be able to run my SATA drives at full potential as well as my GPU. I cant really say the Xeon has not been up to par, but I have noticed on PUBE-G that in some map areas the hitching is pretty bad and FPS have dropped on Sanhok (pre latest update) to the 40's! I was led to believe an i7 8700k for example would yield far high minimum frame rates, so areas like this I'd still be over 60fps?

I've zero affinity to AMD or Intel, when I used to build and upgrade constantly back in the day I simply went with whichever was quickest/good VFM at the time.

My main criteria is gaming performance, work wise I'm not really concerned, as all I do is remote connect in to my rig at work to do my coding.

... so really just looking for upgrade advice and if there's a decent bundle. Don't want to go mental, looking around the £600-800 marker for just CPU, board and RAM. Don't think I need anything else, as I have a moderate GPU already, D14 Noctua cooler, x6 240GB SSDs, a decent 650w PSU and love my fractal case.
 
Thanks chaps, the 2700x looks like a beast to be honest and is really well priced compared to Intel. With regards VM's, I don't use them for work, I just remote on to my desktop which is pretty powerful, so 16GB RAM is more than enough and 6/8 cores also plenty. It's basically being upgraded for gaming.

Interesting that the 3d mark scores are similar to an 8700... not sure how that translates in gaming though, as multi threaded/core CPU's don't appear to be any real benefit? It's more the minimum frames I'm after improving as at the top end I'm GPU bound anyway, plus I fancy messing about again overclocking and building if I'm completely honest! lol

Like the look of these bundles, shame the cpu coolers can't be removed though...

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/defc....80ghz-overclocked-bundle-bu-0a8-og.html#t=a1

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/8pac...15ghz-overclocked-ryzen-bundle-bu-00g-8p.html
 
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Bundle looks okay but been reading up on the threads here and that 4.35ghz boost seems as though it only works on the x470 boards and these Ryzen chips don't clock well?

Feeling like Intel might be the best option as this is going to primarily be a gaming PC for 1080p with high fps.
 
Well that could be an interesting prospect... guess I'll just wait it out a bit as it's not as if my x58 rig with 1070ti struggles with anything really. I can handle the odd moment on pube with FPS hitching as it's less than it used to be.
 
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