Desmond20012

thanks for the advice, i tried using the cable my other pc is using and it appears that it is now at 1gbit speed. It appears some of my cat5e cable are faulty. thanks again

Clock cycles, measured in gigahertz, measure how often the CPU can do stuff by carrying out instructions. each of those clock cycles has an amount of instructions that it can complete. a really old processor might have a large amount of clock cycles, but all of those clock cycles might not be able to complete as many instructions as a modern processor which has a slightly lower clock speed but has many instructions per clock.
 
There are also different instruction sets, so when you are comparing processors from different companies like AMD versus Intel, that also creates another Gap in the performance metrics.

Ryzen 5 3600. I think that answers your question.
 
If you have a intel board, then well..your options are limited. 9400f to me only makes sense if you are esports gaming, everything else sucks hard due to those lack of threads. It is the best budget choice on the intel side, as the 9600k is pretty much the same thing really just with higher frequency. To be honest, I wouldn't be going any lower than a 9700k for non-gaming tasks, otherwise AMD is always better at the low end for that sort of thing.
 
If you can, a 3600 will be FAR better in editing. As the person above said, i5's are dead cause the 3600 slayed them all.
 
 

no real reason to get that when you can get a Ryzen 3 chip. the Intel I5 is dead tbh. Anyway to answer your question, it depends but its more of a sidegrade than an upgrade