Superb_Assassin

Wow definitely an eye opener for sure. Thanks a bunch for the info. Ryzen 7 3700X it is.

Damn good point... do you think games will really start to utilize the 16 threads soon? As of now it seems like single cores are still the only ones games really use. But I have heard that the more demanding games and future games will start using more threads for better performance.

Ok so I've been doing a bunch more research and I came across the i5-9600K After researching this cpu, I found that when the 9600K is overclocked, it potentially can have pretty much the same performance as an i7-9700K WHEN IT COMES TO GAMING. The 9600K is only $205 on Amazon as opposed to 360-380 for the 9700K. My question is, am I crazy here or is it a no brainer to go with the 9600K? Or do I still go with the Ryzen but this basically performs on par with the ryzen 3700x again when it comes to gaming only.

I was looking at the 3700x and noticed that it supports pcie 4.0 on the newer X570 Motherboards... I'm not really that familiar with pcie 4.0. Is it anything I should seriously consider or does it not make a big difference?

Yep I kept my box that the cooler came in and it has a AM4 socket adapter This is why I keep all my boxes of components although it's not great when it comes to space management haha

Thanks a bunch for this. @JM21 and @PopsicleHustler you convinced me to go Ryzen. I use to be hesitant with pairing AMD with Nvidea components but I know that now a bunch of people do it and have no issues. Btw is that cooler the Ryzen comes with actually acceptable or should I just stick with my NZXT water loop?

That is a great point. I really don't wanna have to upgrade all over again to a new socket or chipset when the newer intel cpus come out and at least with AMD if they do in fact keep the same chipset it would be a much easier upgrade. I hear many games don't benefit from hyperthreading though. I mean it is still good to have in case I wanted to stream or render/edit some videos too.. hmmm

Well I get 85-130fps in pretty much any game right now with max settings. The MAIN reason I really wanted to upgrade was for Cyberpunk 2077 and other games which I think (could be very wrong) would be more CPU heavy because of the open worldness to it. There are times where I notice it kind of have a very short stutter when getting some draw calls from cpu and I think it's just time for an upgrade to a beefier CPU.

Yeah that was another thing I have been thinking about. But I use this PC only for gaming. Does it match up well against the 9700K as far as gaming?

So I have been contemplating making the switch or upgrade rather, to an i7-9700K CPU. The thing is, with my current build, in order to do that I would need to buy a new motherboard and RAM and of course the cpu. (Refer to build specs below) Do you think it's worth spending the money to upgrade from an i7-4790K to the 9700K... I know obviously it is a better cpu but is it worth the money I am gonna have to spend to switch from LGA 1150 to the 1151 Socket? Like is DDR4 really that much better than DDR3? I have a pretty beefy PC already and play everything with no issues but I do feel like my cpu is a bottleneck in certain games. Maybe it's just me though lol Thanks in advance. PC SPECS: CPU: i7-4790K OC 4.4Ghz GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 1080Ti Gaming X Trio RAM: DDR3 HyperX 1866Mhz 24GB Motherboard: MSI Z97S Krait Edition Monitor: 27 Inch MSI Optix MPG27CQ 2560x1440p

Thanks! The light on the CPU cooler pulsates too

Thanks But yeah I completely hear you on that lol. It was not easy finding all the white parts. Especially when it came to motherboards. Only because I did not want to steer away from the Z97 chipset being that I already had my i7-4790K and there was literally only one white motherboard I was able to find which was the MSI Krait but still I can't complain. The motherboard is great. It turned out better than I expected. I wanted a little more matte white to be on the motherboard for the build and Krait doesn't really have too much of it but it ended up working out ok.

Hey Gamers/Tech fans. I have been following Linus on youtube since I first starting building PCs and actually learned a great deal of information from Linus's vids on youtube when I was first learning how to build. So I owe a lot of my success and accomplishment to the LinusTech group. Finally decided to post my now 3rd PC that I built on here. Nice to meet everyone. PC Specs: CPU: i7-4790K 4.4ghz stable "OC" CPU Cooler: DeepCool Captain 240 EX Liquid Cooler Memory: 1866 mhz DDR3 HyperX 12 GB GPU: 2 X ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 OC Edition in SLI Motherboard: MSI Z97 Krait Edition Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro Full Tower