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xeon x5660 -> Ryzen 5 1600

Kurgen

Kurgen

Kurgen

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would this upgrade be worthwhile or a total waste of time. I cant overclock the xeon on my board revision so no posts on that please been dealt with on other thread. clearly having usb 3 and SATA3 plus m.2 is an advantage. i already have a 16gb 2400 kit i bought months ago when it was half the price. Although at the moment i use it for general internet, and a bit of AutoCAD and sketchup. I'm thinking about installing Revit as we will be getting this where i work.

I could possibly get £250 for my existing kit which would almost cover a new board and CPU?

components i have already are
PSU : Superflower Leadex Gold 550w PSU
RAM : Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (4x4GB) 2400
CASE : BitFenix Aurora Midi Tower Case
GPU : Nvidia Quadro K420
SSD: Various
 
Well you'd lose some clock speed but gain a rather large IPC bump (~50% off the top of my head). USB 3 and M.2 are great if you want to take advantage of them and DDR4 is a huge part of the cost now to a good Ryzen setup so having that puts you ahead of the game. If you get that much for your old system it'd be a nice upgrade for the money, definitely, but I wonder if you'd regret not going for the R7 1700 in a year or two. Having said that, you can always drop in a Zen+ chip later!

EDIT: Just realised you can't overclock your Xeon, in which case you'd actually gain way more than 50% improvement per core.
 
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As above you would get more MHz and those MHz would do more due to a HUGE bump in IPC, so you could see a very noticeable boost to both single and multi threaded applications.
 
Just to make sure I added that up right, the X5660 has a 2.8 base and 3.2 turbo, the R1600 has a 3.2 base and 3.7 turbo, and the R1600X has a 3.6 base and 4.1 turbo. Which should be +500 and +900 respectively I think.
 
correct i bought a quad channel kit on offer for £68 , and snapped it up thinking that will come in useful on day
 
It's a good upgrade, with a very promising upgrade path, also and this would seal the deal for me, your motherboard will net a you decent some on eBay, well over £100
 
i had it listed a couple of weeks ago execpt with i7 , and got greedy when i rejected £250 offer, your £100 is way out, since the cpu is worth £40-50 and the ram £50 alone
 
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