Ryzen 3rd Gen

[Redrooster]

Ok, so I know that the new ryzen chips will be dropping somewhere around july. Should i wait to buy a 3000 series cpu for my 2060, or should i go ahead and get an r5 2600 and upgrade later when i want to upgrade from a 2060? My heavy priority is gaming, but i would like to have the option to run a dual monitor setup one day.

[Fasauceome]

What are you upgrading from? Don't upgrade if you're getting suitable performance.

[Ashiella]

14 minutes ago, Redrooster said:

Ok, so I know that the new ryzen chips will be dropping somewhere around july. Should i wait to buy a 3000 series cpu for my 2060, or should i go ahead and get an r5 2600 and upgrade later when i want to upgrade from a 2060? My heavy priority is gaming, but i would like to have the option to run a dual monitor setup one day.

Ryzen chips will likely drop during june, possibly july if it gets delayed. Not sure what your specs are, but I know an R5 2600 will not bottleneck a 2060 at 1080p and your cpu will not affect your dual-monitor capability unless your using two different GPU's for two different monitors (Increases cpu usage due to windows trying to figure out existence)

[Redrooster]

8 hours ago, fasauceome said:

What are you upgrading from? Don't upgrade if you're getting suitable performance.

I currently have a i5 3550, it's time to upgrade

[Redrooster]

8 hours ago, Ashiella said:

unless your using two different GPU's for two different monitors (Increases cpu usage due to windows trying to figure out existence)

I'm actually getting the 2060 around April 8th and the rest of my new rig in july. I only have $350 to spend on a gpu, so there is no way i could run a two gpu set-up.

[gouca]

8 minutes ago, Redrooster said:

I currently have a i5 3550, it's time to upgrade

Really all comes down to what you use your PC for, if it's purely gaming do wait for the 3rd gen, if you do creative stuff other than occasionally (in which case you probably wouldn't have 3550) it's a good time to upgrade already.