Fx-8350

[borisdarker]

I'm currently on a fx-8350/1050ti/16gb ram and I have about 200$ for upgrades. Is it worth it to move to ryzen 3 or should I just save my money for ryzen 5 and just go straight to ryzen 5

[You_are_a_cunt]

go straight to ryzen 5 1600.

No point spending money on an r3 that you might use for a few months then put back in a box

[Oshino Shinobu]

$200 is barely enough to go to Ryzen 3. If you go for the cheapest of everything, you can do it, but only just. I'd save until you can afford Ryzen 5 and a decent motherboard (and RAM)

[borisdarker]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

$200 is barely enough to go to Ryzen 3. If you go for the cheapest of everything, you can do it, but only just. I'd save until you can afford Ryzen 5 and a decent motherboard (and RAM)

I also have to buy more ram do you know if the flash prices will come back down soon?

[Oshino Shinobu]

2 minutes ago, borisdarker said:

I also have to buy more ram do you know if the flash prices will come back down soon?

Flash memory prices have been high for quite a while now. People expected them to come down already but at the moment they show no signs of dropping. The increase of cards being bought for mining recently isn't doing anything to help, as well as more people upgrading to new platforms like Threadripper that use DDR4. 

 

I wouldn't hold out much hope for them to drop anytime soon. 

[borisdarker]

Just now, Oshino Shinobu said:

Flash memory prices have been high for quite a while now. People expected them to come down already but at the moment they show no signs of dropping. The increase of cards being bought for mining recently isn't doing anything to help, as well as more people upgrading to new platforms like Threadripper that use DDR4. 

 

I wouldn't hold out much hope for them to drop anytime soon. 

Ok. I'm probably going to wait till I can afford r5. Is there any use for my old RAM

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, borisdarker said:

Ok. I'm probably going to wait till I can afford r5. Is there any use for my old RAM

Sell it or put it in another system. I kept some old DDR3 and LGA1155 parts from years ago and ended up putting them in a NAS. I would sell the FX8350 though, it's not much use nowdays. In a NAS or HTPC it's a bit too power hungry. 

[borisdarker]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Sell it or put it in another system. I kept some old DDR3 and LGA1155 parts from years ago and ended up putting them in a NAS. I would sell the FX8350 though, it's not much use nowdays. In a NAS or HTPC it's a bit too power hungry. 

I already have a nas.. would a nas benefit from more power my current one has a dual core and 2GB of ram

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, borisdarker said:

I already have a nas..

Then sell it, put it in a HTPC or something. There's no place for DDR3 in the new build if you're upgrading to Ryzen. 

[Rupe]

From a pure benchmark perspective in video games you not going to see a difference between the two really, they trade blows. So i would just keep hold of the money for now

http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3002-amd-r3-1200-review-line-between-fine-and-exciting/page-4