I had originally planned on buying the Ryzen 7 1700 for my build, because I thought that the B350 motherboards weren't compatible with the Ryzen 2 CPUs (pcpartpicker said so). But my B350 Tomohawk shipped with the most recent bios update pre-installed and is compatible with the gen 2 CPUs out of the box.
I plan on gaming, streaming, and doing light photo and video editing.
Should I stick to the plan and get the Ryzen 7 1700, or should I sacrifice those 2 extra cores for higher clock speeds and $100 left in my account at the end of the day. The Ryzen 5 2600 is considerably less expensive and it outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700 in everything with exception of multi-threaded work. BUT, streaming...
The clock speeds can be achieved on the Ryzen 7 1700, but the Ryzen 5 2600 can't magic 2 cores and 4 threads out of thin air.
My main question is this, will streaming utilize all 8 cores and 16 threads, or would 6 and 12 be enough to get the job done?
p.s. You can see the rest of the build on my profile.