3600 vs 3600x vs 3700x which is best for gaming

[Jedibrysen]

I don’t know which to pick up I have the money to spend up to a 3700x and I don’t know what to get for my Asus X470-pro MB!? Should I also upgrade my MB or not I have 3200 16ms ram too

[Origami Cactus]

Asus x470-pro is a good enough board, it can support both of these with no issues, but don't forget to update the BIOS!

Get either the 3600 or 3700x. Next gen consoles use 8 core zen 2 processors, so i would recommend the 3700x for a gaming build.

[orlando690]

If I were to only game I wouldn't get the 3700x.

Look at benchmarks. Extra $130 is just not worth it, for me atleast. 

 

Overclocking headroom doesn't seem to be much for 3600-3900 and they all seem to reach similar clock speeds 

 

Personally ima need 8 cores for other things so 3700x for me

[jones177]

It looks like the R5 3600x has about the same performance as a i7 8700k so for gaming today is the best price performance chip. 

For gaming tomorrow I think 8 core 16 threads will be best so I would get the R7 3700x.

[Jedibrysen]

1 hour ago, jones177 said:

It looks like the R5 3600x has about the same performance as a i7 8700k so for gaming today is the best price performance chip. 

For gaming tomorrow I think 8 core 16 threads will be best so I would get the R7 3700x.

I’ll get the 3700x

[Jedibrysen]

1 hour ago, orlando690 said:

If I were to only game I wouldn't get the 3700x.

Look at benchmarks. Extra $130 is just not worth it, for me atleast. 

 

Overclocking headroom doesn't seem to be much for 3600-3900 and they all seem to reach similar clock speeds 

 

Personally ima need 8 cores for other things so 3700x for me

I think the 3700x is worth it for me I have a 2700x right now and they say the 3700x will be able to OC the most

[orlando690]

4 hours ago, Jedibrysen said:

I think the 3700x is worth it for me I have a 2700x right now and they say the 3700x will be able to OC the most

I saw 1 reviewer that actually attempted overclocking on a noctua. Got to 4.3, it's the same that the 3600 got to. 

 

It could just be his luck, but ima go with these cards don't overclock too much. I saw atleast 2 you tubers say that. 

[Gohardgrandpa]

I went with the 3600 for $199, mainly because performance is about equal to the i7 8700k and that’s still chugging along good at 1080p.  

Only reason I’m doing this is I sold my 1800x with my b350 tomahawk and 16gb ddr4 2666mhz ram for $250 which paid for the new cpu. The ram and board was literally just laying around as I had already bought new stuff so why not. 

 

[Tiago8v]

Same problem here mate!
I'm between the 3600x and the 3700x...
I'm looking at a future safe build, my current build is a Intel i5 2500k OC to 4.6 since I bought it and it's used every day... for at least 3h or 4h, so future proof is important for me!

[Jedibrysen]

20 hours ago, orlando690 said:

I saw 1 reviewer that actually attempted overclocking on a noctua. Got to 4.3, it's the same that the 3600 got to. 

 

It could just be his luck, but ima go with these cards don't overclock too much. I saw atleast 2 you tubers say that. 

What about the 3800x 

[Jedibrysen]

17 hours ago, Gohardgrandpa said:

I went with the 3600 for $199, mainly because performance is about equal to the i7 8700k and that’s still chugging along good at 1080p.  

Only reason I’m doing this is I sold my 1800x with my b350 tomahawk and 16gb ddr4 2666mhz ram for $250 which paid for the new cpu. The ram and board was literally just laying around as I had already bought new stuff so why not. 

 

Well I’m coming from an 8core cpu don’t want to downgrade I’m thinking of getting the 3800x

[Qata]

i would suggest 3600x with fast ram and a good Mainboard, you might even disable HT/SMT if u want max fps.

[Gohardgrandpa]

34 minutes ago, Jedibrysen said:

Well I’m coming from an 8core cpu don’t want to downgrade I’m thinking of getting the 3800x

I had a 8 core too but the 1800x wasn’t a good cpu for gaming anyways, it worked fine for 60 FPS but running a 144hz monitor I needed more power. 

The 3600 will be more then enough for me, I really only play esports stuff and by the time I need to upgrade it there will be new stuff out. 

[Jedibrysen]

32 minutes ago, Gohardgrandpa said:

I had a 8 core too but the 1800x wasn’t a good cpu for gaming anyways, it worked fine for 60 FPS but running a 144hz monitor I needed more power. 

The 3600 will be more then enough for me, I really only play esports stuff and by the time I need to upgrade it there will be new stuff out. 

I play games and stream at the same time at 1080p 240hz

[Jedibrysen]

1 hour ago, Qata said:

i would suggest 3600x with fast ram and a good Mainboard, you might even disable HT/SMT if u want max fps.

I have a 2700x right now with an RTx 2080 on a 1080p 240hz monitor I game and stream on one pc so your saying I should loss two cores no thanks

[Mister Woof]

@Jedibrysen

 

Debauer did a video and essentially the new 3000s have zero OC headroom, and can't even manage advertised boost clocks.

 

All SKUs tapped out between 4.2-4.3ghz  all core at 1.45v manually.

 

Even with exotic ln2 there was unimpressive gains.

 

 

[Qata]

48 minutes ago, Jedibrysen said:

 I have a 2700x right now with an RTx 2080 on a 1080p 240hz monitor I game and stream on one pc so your saying I should loss two cores no thanks

lol? what is wrong with you, read your title and give ppl informations.... your answer is a joke.

[Mister Woof]

2 minutes ago, Qata said:

lol? what is wrong with you, read your title and give ppl informations.... your answer is a joke.

 

But he streams!

 

 

[Jedibrysen]

30 minutes ago, Qata said:

lol? what is wrong with you, read your title and give ppl informations.... your answer is a joke.

Dude I’m simply saying that I don’t want to lose two cores and I was asking for those ones because I can’t afford the 3900x or 3800x and I was just asking opinions 

[Jedibrysen]

28 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

 

But he streams!

 

 

Do more cores matter for streaming through my GPU or not?

[Mister Woof]

10 minutes ago, Jedibrysen said:

Do more cores matter for streaming through my GPU or not?

If you are using the GPU to encode, then no

[Mister Woof]

12 minutes ago, Jedibrysen said:

Dude I’m simply saying that I don’t want to lose two cores and I was asking for those ones because I can’t afford the 3900x or 3800x and I was just asking opinions 

If you can't afford the 3800x or 3900x, and already have a 2700x, why are you even upgrading?

 

Stream end will only see 30 or 60 fps and your CPU is more than capable of that, and if you are using GPU encoding then it's even less strain.

[Jedibrysen]

13 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

If you can't afford the 3800x or 3900x, and already have a 2700x, why are you even upgrading?

 

Stream end will only see 30 or 60 fps and your CPU is more than capable of that, and if you are using GPU encoding then it's even less strain.

Because I play end game situations where I’m at 50fps and I can get a 20-30fps boost with 3rd gen

[Mister Woof]

12 minutes ago, Jedibrysen said:

Because I play end game situations where I’m at 50fps and I can get a 20-30fps boost with 3rd gen

 

What game do you stream?

 

WoW or something?

[LeonTheLobster]

Just now, Plutosaurus said:

 

What game do you stream?

 

WoW or something?

Fortnite perhaps? Competitive end games are extremely CPU Intensive