Upgrade for a friend's sleeper

[Fasauceome]

Tldr parts list below, thoughts?

 

One of the older PC builds I did was a while back with an i5 7400 on a Gigabyte B250 DS3H. It was a sleeper because I was using parts his uncle Billy gave him from a scrap pile he had of PC parts, which included an old dual core athlon, some Radeon budget video card from 2008, and as it turned out, an Antec Earthwatts PSU and a Crucial SSD. We kept the old case and whiny little blue LED fans and threw the modern stuff in there as well as a 1TB hard drive and 1060 3GB, but now it's time to upgrade. Adobe is hard on an old quad core.

 

Current parts:

Antec Earthwatts 500 watt

i5 7400

2x4GB G.Skill Aegis 2400

B250 DS3H

 

Potential upgrade:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	$147.39 @ OutletPC
Motherboard	MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard	$115.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	Corsair - CX (2017) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$37.98 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$321.35
	Mail-in rebates	-$20.00
	Total	$301.35
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-06-18 20:26 EDT-0400

The CX is on sale so I recommended that one right away, and the motherboard was selected because we need 5 fan headers at least.

 

However, I'm still deciding between the 1700 and 2600. He does Adobe premiere and aftereffects renders which love to chew up all 4 of his cores, but it's also a gaming machine so the 2600 would be nice. I'd like to keep the 2400MHz kit and just OC it for him.

[Slottr]

I'd go with the 1700, they're dirt cheap now and after the next chips come out I'm sure they'll take another nice discount

 

AE and the other CC graphics programs love my 1700, it's done really great for me. Games also run decent

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

I wouldnt call this an upgrade by reusing ram/ case/ drives only...

with stock cooler r7 1700 wraith rgb  looks better than 2600's stealth, which also limits 2600 OC too.

with limited cooling, 1700 shall have slightly better core clocks and ips improvement really didnt matter with a 1060. 

no matter what you do, it feels much more comfortable with 8 core lol

 

[Fasauceome]

20 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

1700 shall have slightly better core clocks and ips improvement

You mean the 2600?

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

1 minute ago, fasauceome said:

You mean the 2600?

sorry my bad,

at stock cooling 1700 shall easily go up to 3.8ghz & 2600 shall reach 4.0ghz.

but really doesnt matter in both case

 

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

sorry my bad,

at stock cooling 1700 shall easily go up to 3.8ghz & 2600 shall reach 4.0ghz.

but really doesnt matter in both case

 

He does plan on upgrading the GPU to a Vega as well, as he does have gaming needs, so the 2600 has its appeal despite the advantage of the 1700 in Adobe. Plus, RGB is kind of a pain in the ass with software so...

 

Still, I am trying to convince him to save for next gen 

Edited June 19, 2019 by fasauceome

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

1 minute ago, fasauceome said:

He does plan on upgrading the GPU to a Vega as well, as he does have gaming needs,

omg this is getting much complicated now..., 

i think is fair to say he should sacrifice a few gaming fps and gain 2c4t more for working..