Need recommendation for CPU+Chipset at 450CAD

[Casual Cube]

[REPOST]

 

I currently live abroad and will be visiting Canada soon. My current PC could use an upgrade and I managed to sell my Ryzen2600 and Asus B450-I. I got some 450CAD out of it. The rest of my PC is a Gtx1080, Corsair 2x8Gb CL15.3000Mhz and have 650W of EVGA power. My monitor is a 1440p 144Hz panel.

I'm looking for a good combo that could get me better performance in gaming. Perhaps a good Intel combo can get me some frames as well as utilize my RAM more with XMP. 

 

Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks

 

[Earnist_]

10 minutes ago, Casual Cube said:

[REPOST]

 

I currently live abroad and will be visiting Canada soon. My current PC could use an upgrade and I managed to sell my Ryzen2600 and Asus B450-I. I got some 450CAD out of it. The rest of my PC is a Gtx1080, Corsair 2x8Gb CL15.3000Mhz and have 650W of EVGA power. My monitor is a 1440p 144Hz panel.

I'm looking for a good combo that could get me better performance in gaming. Perhaps a good Intel combo can get me some frames as well as utilize my RAM more with XMP. 

 

Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks

 

well honestly that was not a good move on your part because that was about the best you could get for that kind of money

[Casual Cube]

1 minute ago, Earnist_ said:

well honestly that was not a good move on your part because that was about the best you could get for that kind of money

well, II'm not at a loss. I made 20 bucks and got 3 months use out of it. And most importantly, I now have the opportunity to buy a better CPU and not have a spare lying around. This is the best possible outcome even if I just buy the same parts again cus I get brand new parts and make 20 bucks so really, what I want is to spend a little more out of my pocket and get an upgrade. Do you have any recommendations?

[Earnist_]

id recommend the same parts you already had for the money you have available now, the ryzen 2600 is a good cpu and wont really bottle neck your gpu id get that combo of parts again 

[Dedayog]

12 minutes ago, Casual Cube said:

well, II'm not at a loss. I made 20 bucks and got 3 months use out of it. And most importantly, I now have the opportunity to buy a better CPU and not have a spare lying around. This is the best possible outcome even if I just buy the same parts again cus I get brand new parts and make 20 bucks so really, what I want is to spend a little more out of my pocket and get an upgrade. Do you have any recommendations?

I'd grab an 8700K and a decent motherboard, if you can for 450-500 CAD.

 

If you can't find that then the 2600 was a really good setup in the first place.

 

[mxk]

Not sure why you did that, I guess you made $20 CAD but I don't really see that as worth it.

 

I guess just get another 2600 and a better motherboard, like an MSI b450 tomahawk. You'll be able to overclock better. You could also consider getting an 8600k/9600k and a z370/z390 motherboard, but you'd be losing more workflow speed.

 

 

[Nocte]

The effort probably was not worth the profit.

42 minutes ago, Casual Cube said:

as well as utilize my RAM more with XMP

You can use XMP with AM4, you know that I hope.

 

Anyhow, considering that you already have a cooler you can get this sidegrade from your 2600:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$339.99 @ Memory Express
Motherboard	ASRock - Z390 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$128.50 @ Vuugo
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$498.49
	Mail-in rebates	-$30.00
	Total	$468.49
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-03-04 10:24 EST-0500

 

[Casual Cube]

9 minutes ago, Nocte said:

The effort probably was not worth the profit.

You can use XMP with AM4, you know that I hope.

 

Anyhow, considering that you already have a cooler you can get this sidegrade from your 2600:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$339.99 @ Memory Express
Motherboard	ASRock - Z390 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$128.50 @ Vuugo
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$498.49
	Mail-in rebates	-$30.00
	Total	$468.49
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-03-04 10:24 EST-0500

 

This is perfect. I need to make a correction though, I made 485 from the parts that I bought for 435. So itys a bit more worth the effort than I thought. I just had the conversion wrong lol. This is excellent still, thank you!

[Nocte]

7 minutes ago, Casual Cube said:

This is perfect. I need to make a correction though, I made 485 from the parts that I bought for 435. So itys a bit more worth the effort than I thought. I just had the conversion wrong lol. This is excellent still, thank you!

Keep in mind that by not going (or staying) with AM4 you pretty much lose out on Ryzen 3000 that could actually beat Intel in single-core performance if IPC and coreclock increase are at least close to the rumoured ones.

[Casual Cube]

6 minutes ago, Nocte said:

Keep in mind that by not going (or staying) with AM4 you pretty much lose out on Ryzen 3000 that could actually beat Intel in single-core performance if IPC and coreclock increase are at least close to the rumoured ones.

yeah I considered this, but also I read that they will keep AM4 socket. And that most motherboards will be forward compatible with a bios update and can use pcie x4.0. Is there no truth to this?

[Nocte]

5 minutes ago, Casual Cube said:

yeah I considered this, but also I read that they will keep AM4 socket. And that most motherboards will be forward compatible with a bios update and can use pcie x4.0. Is there no truth to this?

Yeah, the motherboard you just sold would be able to run the new Ryzen gen CPUs.