Amd fanboy in need of intel advice pls.

[Optimusgrime]

Hi everyone for the most part I've been building amd systems and feel like a change, I'm building a purely gaming build probs round a rtx 2060 or maybe a 2060super.

 

Cpu suggestions please and maybe a good motherboard combo tia people. 

[KingofRome]

I think a Asus Prime X570 Pro and a R5 3600 would be best bang for buck combo. But honestly, why Intel advice?

 

Greetings from Germany

[FCCloud]

I'd like to add another possible combo, if I may. The R5 3600 is a great chip for the price, but I feel like the B450 Tomahawk MAX from MSI would save a few bucks. Unless you need an unfathomable number of SATA ports or PCIe Gen 4 for storage, I'd go with 400 series when possible. If you do go with the B450 Tomahawk MAX, make sure that it says MAX on the product listing and the photo. The non-MAX has serious BIOS issues with Ryzen 3000 right now, but the MAX boards work with Ryzen 3000 out of the box.

[realpetertdm]

21 minutes ago, Optimusgrime said:

Hi everyone for the most part I've been building amd systems and feel like a change, I'm building a purely gaming build probs round a rtx 2060 or maybe a 2060super.

 

Cpu suggestions please and maybe a good motherboard combo tia people. 

I don't know why you want to go Intel but if you're looking for one then the i9-9900k is the best for gaming but it would be overkill for a 2060, try going for:

i7-8700

i7-9700 (if you're looking to do workstation stuff too)

i5-9600/8600

[porina]

The vast majority of my builds have been Intel systems, so I don't say this lightly. This is a great time to get a new AMD CPU. Ryzen is very different from the older AMD CPUs, and the recently launch Zen 2 CPUs are as good as Intel, without the more numerous exceptions for earlier generation Ryzen. Putting aside where one might or might not be a bit better in some specific situation, they now are close enough it doesn't really matter which you choose, with the decider being price.

 

Since no budget has been mentioned, I assume it isn't going to be massive if the target GPU level is 2060. It really comes down to how much you want to spend, but I'd consider either the Ryzen 3600 or 3700X depending if you want 6 or 8 cores. Personally I don't think the slightly higher clock of the higher models at each core count are really significant, and either way you do want to get a nice air cooler. The bundled one will do in a pinch, but something like a Dark Rock Pro 4 would be nice with either, giving lower temps and lower noise.

 

Can't suggest a specific mobo since I reused older generation boards for my builds, and I'm not up to speed on the latest generation.

[Firewrath9]

20 minutes ago, realpetertdm said:

i7-8700

i7-9700 (if you're looking to do workstation stuff too)

 

why 9700 for workstation stuff? it has worse nT performance due to lack of HT.

[Optimusgrime]

4 hours ago, porina said:

The vast majority of my builds have been Intel systems, so I don't say this lightly. This is a great time to get a new AMD CPU. Ryzen is very different from the older AMD CPUs, and the recently launch Zen 2 CPUs are as good as Intel, without the more numerous exceptions for earlier generation Ryzen. Putting aside where one might or might not be a bit better in some specific situation, they now are close enough it doesn't really matter which you choose, with the decider being price.

 

Since no budget has been mentioned, I assume it isn't going to be massive if the target GPU level is 2060. It really comes down to how much you want to spend, but I'd consider either the Ryzen 3600 or 3700X depending if you want 6 or 8 cores. Personally I don't think the slightly higher clock of the higher models at each core count are really significant, and either way you do want to get a nice air cooler. The bundled one will do in a pinch, but something like a Dark Rock Pro 4 would be nice with either, giving lower temps and lower noise.

 

Can't suggest a specific mobo since I reused older generation boards for my builds, and I'm not up to speed on the latest generation.

Yeah I just fancied something different and was thinking of around $1500. But maybe stick with a 3600 build but with a mobo that I don't have to bios flash as font have an old cpu to use

[CPUguy101]

8 hours ago, Optimusgrime said:

Hi everyone for the most part I've been building amd systems and feel like a change, I'm building a purely gaming build probs round a rtx 2060 or maybe a 2060super.

 

Cpu suggestions please and maybe a good motherboard combo tia people. 

IMO in terms of pure gaming its either a 3600 or a 9900K nothing else makes sense. 

 

If you plan on doing more like streaming or encoding videos then the 3700X makes sense or maybe even the 3900X. 

 

For 90% of gamers however i would say a 3600+B450 with flash back compatibility is the best option. 

 

Only Intel chip even worth considering is the 9900K nothing else is really exciting. 6C/6T or 8C/8T is not a good option long term.