Ouduk

Thanks. I have had a quick look on eBay and the 2600K/2700K still go for around £70/£80. Not sure the performance gain would justify that? What is your experience, and what GPU do you have? It might make more sense for something better than a RX580.

Well, I do have the money. Luckily £300 does not break the bank, but I wonder if it is better spent on a Netflix + Amazon Prime subscription for a year, or something like that . I guess for £300-£350 I would expect a pretty big improvement and something tells me I am not going to. My monitor is 144Hz so it could handle the extra fps, but not sure I'd be getting value for money.

Hi. I use my PC mainly for web browsing, light office work and a bit of 1080p gaming. I have had this system, i5 2500K@ 4GHz + GTX 670 for many, many years. I just got a Sapphire RX 580 really cheap on eBay. Final cost after selling my 670, only £70. Bargain!. Just thinking of changing the mighty 2500K (what an amazing CPU) but wondering if it will be worth it since it will involve a new mobo, CPU and RAM. I can get a Ryzen 2600 bundle for around £280. Bit too much for just a few extra fps? Single thread performance does not seem much higher than my current CPU. Or a Ryzen 3600 bundle for £360. Overkill for a rx580? So for no multitasking, no streaming, is the 2500K @4GHz still good enough for this GPU? All the benchmarks I see online use £1000 or over GPUs to show how mighty the new Ryzen processors are, but that is not a real world test, at least in my case. I think most games will be limited by the RX580 rather than the CPU. Or at least not limited enough to justify a £300 expense. I have tried Total War Three Kingdoms, Metro Exodus and Plague's Tale so far and it runs quite well. Much better than the 670. Maybe that is all I needed? Thanks