Is it time to upgrade to Ryzen 3000 Series?

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

I have had my machine for nearly 3 years now (i7 6700k, GTX 1080, 16 gigs of RAM, Sata SSD, etc)

But the features of Rezen 3rd gen look pretty f**king cool tbh (PCI EX 4, the insane boost clocks on R 9, mini itx from ASUS, etc)

Is it worth it to upgrade from my current rig to this, if my daily workload consists of Unreal Engine 4, Visual Studio, Gaming at 1440P 144 hz, and 3d modeling.

[Oalei]

Well whatever CPU you chose from Ryzen 3000 line up will give you better experience anyway. The word worth is only for you to decide.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

I'm going to wait a couple of months to see if any problems arise.  

 

Last time I jumped on a brand new platform was when Sandy Bridge and P67 was released.  The Cougar Point SATA bug that it suffered from was a proper mess.  Intel had to halt production, pull all LGA1155 motherboards from all vendors from the shelves and replace quite a few that were already sold. 

[Connor Price]

11 minutes ago, Captain Chaos said:

I'm going to wait a couple of months to see if any problems arise.  

 

Last time I jumped on a brand new platform was when Sandy Bridge and P67 was released.  The Cougar Point SATA bug that it suffered from was a proper mess.  Intel had to halt production, pull all LGA1155 motherboards from all vendors from the shelves and replace quite a few that were already sold. 

This is definitely the way to go. Wait for benchmarks and see how things pan out. I'll admit I kind of rushed into my Radeon VII purchase as I wanted something better than a 1080 but had no real interest in the RTX lineup. Now, I'm not disappointed with my purchase but it seems like with how Navi is panning out, I could've gotten 80% of the performance the VII is giving me for a lot less noise and heat and almost half the price. Sometimes it pays off to wait a little longer.

[Firewrath9]

I'm waiting till black friday.

[Stefan Payne]

Well, replacing Ryzen 1700X with 3700X seems like a good replacement to me.

 

Ryzen 2700(X) with 3700X seems like a different story...

[jones177]

57 minutes ago, KING OF THE DIRTY DANS said:

I have had my machine for nearly 3 years now (i7 6700k, GTX 1080, 16 gigs of RAM, Sata SSD, etc)

But the features of Rezen 3rd gen look pretty f**king cool tbh (PCI EX 4, the insane boost clocks on R 9, mini itx from ASUS, etc)

Is it worth it to upgrade from my current rig to this, if my daily workload consists of Unreal Engine 4, Visual Studio, Gaming at 1440P 144 hz, and 3d modeling.

 The i7 6700k was the last CPU that I did tons of rendering on.

 

Its IPC was about the same a R7 2700x so not the best upgrade. The new chips will be a different story. 

My issue with them may be the same as I have with i7 8086k and i9 9900k and that is that they may be too hot overclocked on air for 3D rendering. 

 

For 3D work for games and design I have always used 2 computers. Usually the older, slower one for texture creation/conversions and the newer faster one for 3D with both rendering overnight. You my want to consider this and keep the i7 6700k rig and still get a new Ryzen 3rd gen rig.

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

1 hour ago, KING OF THE DIRTY DANS said:

I have had my machine for nearly 3 years now (i7 6700k, GTX 1080, 16 gigs of RAM, Sata SSD, etc) 

But the features of Rezen 3rd gen look pretty f**king cool tbh (PCI EX 4, the insane boost clocks on R 9, mini itx from ASUS, etc)

Is it worth it to upgrade from my current rig to this, if my daily workload consists of Unreal Engine 4, Visual Studio, Gaming at 1440P 144 hz, and 3d modeling. 

 

Coding and Development - Unless you have a multi-threading flag always active, you are depending on single core performance. 

3d Modelling - Depends of the software but are you CPU or GPU bound.