Advice on what path to take with my laptop.

uhtceare1999 · January 12, 2020

So around December I bought an ASUS FX505DT (R5 3550H, 1650, SSD, 8GB RAM) for roughly around $850 which was a big deal for me since I'm only just a student and I bought it with my own hard earned cash. Also for some context I'm from the Philippines. So CES 2020 came and Ryzen is bringing out those sweet 3rd Gen CPUs and it seems like new laptop models will be coming out with better specs. My question is should I start looking to resell my laptop and buy a new one once they start sending out those new models with the Zen 2 Ryzens? Is that a smart move? or just suck it up iwth the 1650 and save money for a desktop instead?

AdamBGames · January 12, 2020

19 minutes ago, uhtceare1999 said:

So around December I bought an ASUS FX505DT (R5 3550H, 1650, SSD, 8GB RAM) for roughly around $850 which was a big deal for me since I'm only just a student and I bought it with my own hard earned cash. Also for some context I'm from the Philippines. So CES 2020 came and Ryzen is bringing out those sweet 3rd Gen CPUs and it seems like new laptop models will be coming out with better specs. My question is should I start looking to resell my laptop and buy a new one once they start sending out those new models with the Zen 2 Ryzens? Is that a smart move? or just suck it up iwth the 1650 and save money for a desktop instead?

As someone who bought the FX505DY (Litterally the DAY BEFORE they annouced the 4000 series but im not salty...really...) (The same thing but with a 560x), I think it's best to wait to see what the benchmarks are for the 4000 series then make a decision at that time, that's what I'm doing.

uhtceare1999 · January 12, 2020

8 hours ago, AdamBGames said:

As someone who bought the FX505DY (Litterally the DAY BEFORE they annouced the 4000 series but im not salty...really...) (The same thing but with a 560x), I think it's best to wait to see what the benchmarks are for the 4000 series then make a decision at that time, that's what I'm doing.

Man but 4000 series look so promising and I really doubt it will disappoint considering how the benchmarks for the R7 and Threadrippers have been.

AdamBGames · January 12, 2020

2 hours ago, uhtceare1999 said:

Man but 4000 series look so promising and I really doubt it will disappoint considering how the benchmarks for the R7 and Threadrippers have been.

I wasn't saying they will be bad, I just wanna see if its an incremental power increase or a massive increase. Depending on which it is, Ill make my decision then.