Thoughts

[TwoTone]

If you were to buy a Ryzen today for slight overclocking with gaming which would you get.

I currently have a I7-5820

 

[Kenrou]

Why change ? yours is roughly on par with the Ryzen 5 2600.

 

[ShrimpBrime]

I went with a 1400 for HTPC and 2700X for my daily gamer. Couldn't be happier with them.

But your Current processor is a Beast. Your only really missing out on thread count at this point.......

 

[JRZoid]

The 2600x....it's close enough to 7700k like. but more threaded. But my 7700k still has like 20 frames on it.

 

[UltraTaco]

5820k is 6c12t. Its got enough IPC to make up for core deficiency and to be competitive, especially when overclocked.

 

[TwoTone]

I was trying to be nice to my son. He wants to upgrade and earned all his money so I was going to sell him my Sabertooth X99 board with the CPU and 32 Gigs ram for $200.

I know it would cost him a lot more than that if he tried to buy the same performance new.

 

[JRZoid]

Well yeah how the 2600x is has quite the IPC of somewhere like that. Something Modern. And absolutely that 6c/12t Performance.

 

[Scu84St3v3420]

Honestly, I have a 2600X and from the reviews I've read you'd be better off grabbing the 2600 non-X and overclocking it to 2600X performance and spend the saved money else where on your build.

 

[TwoTone]

So maybe I should go a different route. What would be his best bet budget wise to see a decent improvement from his current I3-3220 LGA 1155?

 

[Kenrou]

In the same socket - 2700k/3770k/Xeon (?) if you can get them cheap, you only have you swap the CPU. If you want to upgrade "cheap" to a new system and still see a big improvement maybe a Ryzen 5 2500x or the 2400g APU ?

Don't really know what's going on in the Intel side, if anyone else wants to chime in ?

 

[TwoTone]

I found a combo deal for a Ryzen 5 2600 and Asus ROG Strix B350 MB for $204. I'll lend him 16 gigs of my ram for now.

Considering I7s I found on Ebay are going to $80-$100, I think the above is a better route.

Thanks for all the input everyone.

 

[Kenrou]

Do you have a GPU to go with that ?

 

[trents]

I found a combo deal for a Ryzen 5 2600 and Asus ROG Strix B350 MB for $204. I'll lend him 16 gigs of my ram for now.

Considering I7s I found on Ebay are going to $80-$100, I think the above is a better route.

Thanks for all the input everyone.

What i7s are you talking about for that cheap? Don't confuse current bids with final selling prices.

 

[TwoTone]

Do you have a GPU to go with that ?

yea he got my R9 Fury when I bought the Vega 64

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What i7s are you talking about for that cheap? Don't confuse current bids with final selling prices.

Yea- that's what I meant. That's why I felt $200 for a modern AM4 MB and Processor would be a better route money wise.

The comparisons I saw the R5 2600 was faster than the LGA 1155 I7s

 

[bignazpwns]

If you must buy now pick up a 1700x. The 2700x is not worth the price jump with the new Ryzens down the road. And if you got a microcenter close you can get the 1700x for $130 and then $20 off if you get a mobo. My vote is.

1700x and good mobo. When ryzen 3 launches get one of those sell the 1700x for $100 and you hardly lose any money. 1700x with a good x470 is still a good cpu. Here's mine and it's still got some left that's just it's daily driver clocks

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