upgrade advice

[Windows95]

I have a 10 year old q6600 G0 CPU, still works fine but its time for an upgrade.

Should I go with 3700X or 3850X? Is 3850X a waste of electricity bills and not worth the increased performance?

Should I wait even further into the next generation of Zen?

I will be doing mostly video editing, music, and VR for racing games.

I have a HD7850 that I will keep unless I see necessary to upgrade.

PSU is Enermax 720W... I will keep it, still very solid.

Case Fraktal r4, also will keep it.

 

I will not be using Intel ever again. Too many NSA exploits clusterfuck histories and too expensive and electricity consuminga anyway fuuck them

[Slottr]

Time to upgrade the platform, I'd say. You can get on Ryzen for fairly cheap and it will definitely offer you a good performance boost.

[LienusLateTips]

Time to upgrade the platform. Just go for a Zen 2 Ryzen 5 I guess, it will be fine for anything now and you can always upgrade to Zen 3 in the future.

[OmicronEta]

Yup. Go for a B450 Motherboard with a Ryzen 7 2700x or cut it down to a Ryzen 5 2600 and then get a bios update and go for a Zen 2 chip when they come out.

[Techla]

3 hours ago, LienusLateTips said:

Time to upgrade the platform. Just go for a Zen 2 Ryzen 5 I guess, it will be fine for anything now and you can always upgrade to Zen 3 in the future.

Yes, Zen 2 Ryzen 5 will be great for now and then just pop in a Zen 3 when you can upgrade next.

[LienusLateTips]

14 hours ago, Techla said:

Yes, Zen 2 Ryzen 5 will be great for now and then just pop in a Zen 3 when you can upgrade next.

BTW... when I say Zen2 I mean Ryzen 3000, not Zen+.

[Windows95]

18 hours ago, LienusLateTips said:

Time to upgrade the platform. Just go for a Zen 2 Ryzen 5 I guess, it will be fine for anything now and you can always upgrade to Zen 3 in the future.

Is this leak legit:

 

 

 

I saw other leak where 3700 was around $350... do you think it's worth it vs 3600X to pay an extra 100 bucks?

 

Also can u explain what X and G mean?

 

Edit:

 

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-3000-cpu-specs-prices-online-retailer-ryzen-9-3850x-leak/

 

Here can you can see a table that says "rumored" and you can see "AMD Ryzen 7 3700X12/244.2 GHz5.0 GHz105WN/A~$370 US"

 

This is good price, $370 still on "makes sense range". For me when it goes into $500 range it starts becoming pointless, but I would still pay $370 bucks for a CPU considering i've used mine for 10 years. And I will be doing CPU intensive stuff like opening many instances of VST in Cubase or FLstudio, as in many reaktor 5 instances which consume CPU, so an extra would be good.

[LienusLateTips]

2 minutes ago, Windows95 said:

Is this leak legit:

 

 

 

I saw other leak where 3700 was around $350... do you think it's worth it vs 3600X to pay an extra 100 bucks?

 

Also can u explain what X and G mean?

We don't know if it's legit. I'm not a crystal ball.

 

$455 SGD is $370 USD.

 

X = XFR on, basically a really high turbo boost.

 

G means it has integrated graphics.

[Windows95]

1 minute ago, LienusLateTips said:

We don't know if it's legit. I'm not a crystal ball.

 

$455 SGD is $370 USD.

 

X = XFR on, basically a really high turbo boost.

 

G means it has integrated graphics.

Oh I see. Well I hope its the real price, I would go for that one.

 

Is those "turbo boosts" safe long term? consider I used my CPU for 10 years. Those "boosted" CPUs make me paranoid that the long term life expectance is reduced so I see it as a bit of a scam.

 

So now I just have to decide if 3700 or 3700X...

[LienusLateTips]

34 minutes ago, Windows95 said:

Oh I see. Well I hope its the real price, I would go for that one.

 

Is those "turbo boosts" safe long term? consider I used my CPU for 10 years. Those "boosted" CPUs make me paranoid that the long term life expectance is reduced so I see it as a bit of a scam.

 

So now I just have to decide if 3700 or 3700X...

Well... it's turbo boost for a reason. Your CPU is already running hot at load, so it 

does some fun tricks to make it run even faster.

 

If it died sooner, then the CPU companies would not implement it, since it'll leave a bad taste in consumers mouths.

 

Just overclocking it yourself though usually saves a bit of money.

[Windows95]

1 hour ago, LienusLateTips said:

Well... it's turbo boost for a reason. Your CPU is already running hot at load, so it 

does some fun tricks to make it run even faster.

 

If it died sooner, then the CPU companies would not implement it, since it'll leave a bad taste in consumers mouths.

 

Just overclocking it yourself though usually saves a bit of money.

Ok I'll go with 3700X then

 

Can you then recommend me a MOBO to go with it? one that ideally has:

 

-no wifi

-no bluetooth or any other wireless bullshit

-will be able to take future CPU's in case of update (Zen3 i guess)

 

then, DDR4 ram, 16 GB should do, an SSD.. oh and a silent fan for the CPU cause I do music and hate background sound. Which noctua would work with the MOBO and fit inside a fraktal r4? thanks for input

 

[LienusLateTips]

2 minutes ago, Windows95 said:

Ok I'll go with 3700X then

 

Can you then recommend me a MOBO to go with it? one that ideally has:

 

-no wifi

-no bluetooth or any other wireless bullshit

-will be able to take future CPU's in case of update (Zen3 i guess)

 

then, DDR4 ram, 16 GB should do, an SSD.. oh and a silent fan for the CPU cause I do music and hate background sound. Which noctua would work with the MOBO and fit inside a fraktal r4? thanks for input

 

Well, the X570 boards aren't out yet, so I'd recommend you choose a board then. When 500 series/Zen 2 is out, you can also use current motherboard, FYI. Ask again when you buy.