Ryzen 3000

[paul88ks]

I'm trying to decide on whether to wait for the Ryzen 3000 series to come out before building my next gaming rig. SHould I wait, or go with a 2700X? Thoughts?

[Sauron]

Do you need it now? If not, wait. There's no downside to waiting; even if the 3000 series is trash, at the very least 2000 series prices will go down

[Fasauceome]

What you can do is secure a quality X470 board now, then if you want to be running Ryzen sooner rather than later you could get a Ryzen 5 instead, then update the BIOS in a couple months to accommodate the new CPUs. You have a good amount of time to track down a sale before the CPUs hit.

[Taf the Ghost]

27 minutes ago, paul88ks said:

I'm trying to decide on whether to wait for the Ryzen 3000 series to come out before building my next gaming rig. SHould I wait, or go with a 2700X? Thoughts?

Get at 2600(X) for a gaming rig. See what the situation looks like on 3rd Gen launch and then upgrade (plus sell the 2600) or simply skip it. We have no information on the memory latency, at this point. That's really all that matters unless you have a 240Hz monitor.

[Taf the Ghost]

15 minutes ago, PacketMan said:

With a FX 8350 and a GTX 970 I'd say you better wait, you don't really need a computer right now (you already have one, so you can still use it) so you won't miss anything

Ryzen 2000 prices will drop and the Ryzen 3000 will bring you better performance, so once it comes out, check the benchmarks and decide which one fits better

Never thought to click on his profile. 

 

Yeah, I'd wait. Unless you're doing high-refresh rate gaming, the FX platform is still fine for this year.

[Anomnomnomaly]

2 hours ago, paul88ks said:

I'm trying to decide on whether to wait for the Ryzen 3000 series to come out before building my next gaming rig. SHould I wait, or go with a 2700X? Thoughts?

I was having the exact same dilemma... I desperately needed a new gaming rig as my old FX8350 was struggling badly in any games released in the last couple of years.

 

I also was considering an upgrade to my mediaserver, both my systems were windows 7 pro... which is EOL in Jan 2020.

 

So I scaled back my gaming rig purchase from the X470 MB and 2700X with 32GB ram... and went for a Ryzen 5 2600X and a B450 MB and 32GB ram... actually ended up with 64GB due to an Amazon screw up, and they let me keep the mistake... So around Nov time, I will upgrade my gaming rig to the X570 MB and a 3700 series CPU.

 

I'll then transfer my current build into my media server, windows install and everything.