R5 2600 5700 vs r5 3600 1660 Super

[Shpoopi]

Curious which people would go with?

I'm looking to upgrade my very old gaming PC. I'd like to play all the latest games like COD,Battlefield, Overwatch, Anno...all of it. 1440p preferably but 1080 is fine.

 

My budget is around $700. I have both these builds priced out on newegg for basically the same price 5700 build a little more.

 

I understand the 3600 is a pretty decent upgrade but I feel like the 5700 is a bigger upgrade over the 1660 Super?

 

If your curious my current 10 year old PC is the following

Asus Crosshair Formula IV

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

4GB of DDR3 at some speed can't remember

AMD Radeon 5770? or something like that.

Rosewell 850Watt PSU

[boggy77]

3600 with 1660 super for 1080p

2600 with 5700 for 1440p

[Mateyyy]

Since you want to play at 1440p, I'd say Ryzen 2600 with the 5700. What I would also recommend is go for a B450 board with good VRMs (MSI Tomahawk for example), as it will allow you to upgrade later on down the line to something like a 3700X or better once they get cheaper (probably around the time Ryzen 4000 comes out, next year) without any issues.

[Shpoopi]

Cool thanks I was kinda thinking something similar. People really seem to like the 3600 but to me the 2600 seems like the deal for $120. Specially since I can move that money into a 5700.

 

15 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

3600 with 1660 super for 1080p

2600 with 5700 for 1440p

Makes sense. My thinking was on games that probably won't run at 120-140FPS on 1080 I'd just run them at 1440 and get a little more resolution. 

[trevb0t]

48 minutes ago, Shpoopi said:

Makes sense. My thinking was on games that probably won't run at 120-140FPS on 1080 I'd just run them at 1440 and get a little more resolution. 

Generally speaking:

lower res / higher refresh = eSports (Overwatch, LoL, CSGo, Rocket League, etc.)

higher res / 60hz = AAA Titles (Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed, GTAV, etc.)

 

144FPS isn't hardly a difference from 60FPS in beautiful scenery gaming (and 1440p 144FPS is hard/impossible for even really high end gear to hit in some newer AAA titles anyway), but it does make a difference in high reaction based competitive gaming.

So it's just about matching what you plan to play the most.