Should I save a little bit buy a 2600x instead of a 3600

[Supersonicwolfe]

So Am4 socket was promised to last until the end of next year, with Ryzen 4000 series be the last gen Ryzen supported. But I don’t think I can wait until 2 more years to upgrade my poor Q9550... (not like it is dying, but hate to see it gets pinned  to 100% from time to time... plus the game I play I will end up GPU setting around 70-80%, and you can imagine how much other bottles neck exists in my system...)

 

What I do: games at 60 FPS at 1080/1440p (The most modern game I play is Ace Combat 7, I might pick up some racing games, and Elder Scrolls 6 when it comes out), not steaming or rendering anything at all (may consider one day trying those)

 

I decided to go with a B450 MSI Gaming Pro Carbon AC mobo with 2x8G DDR4-3200 sticks

 

However I couldn’t find a perfect combo with R5 3600 from a trusted vender.

My options are spend a bit more ($24.6) buying from a 3rd party vender, or settle with a R5 2600X from a reputable-Amazon-like retailer for now.

(FYI not buying CPU combo is stupidly expensive here , a R5 3600 Retails $232.6 here and used Ryzen 3600 is hard to find... like duhh it is a 3 month old processor)

 

I will wait for a while to see if the 3600 will come down a bit more, but lot of retailers are putting up “30-day lowest price guarantee” signs already.

 

For now I am inclined to get the R5 2600x ($304 with the mobo). Of course B450 Tomahawk MAX with R5 3600 is $14 cheaper (from the same reputable retailer), but I don’t want to put up with the limited Rear I/O USB ports and mediocre Audio/Network equipment on the Tomahawk... (Plus, the Gaming Pro Carbon have better power delivery options with 8+4 pin which makes me think I might able to upgrade the CPU in the future and held on to AM4 a bit longer, by stick a top of line R9 or even 4000 series chip in it.)

 

What is your suggestion? Should I bite the bullet go with the 3rd party vender? or 2600X would be more than enough for my use case? 

[19_blackie_73]

I'd go with the 3600 because of better single threaded performance which will be beneficial

I don't know what exact prices youre looking at for the mobo, but as far as i remember the gaming pro ac was quite expensive for a b450 board. Maybe the x470 gaming plus max may be cheaper,  but i actually don't know if thats a real option

[Stormseeker9]

Really? Gotta open a second thread about this ?

 

3600+ tomahawk Max OR the GPC as we said yesterday

[Meganter]

https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3489-amd-ryzen-5-3600-cpu-review-benchmarks-vs-intel

 

Better than using UserBenchmark.

 

I voted for the 3600+b450 max and yes max can use a 3900x maybe 3950x so the 3600 is fine  

 

3 minutes ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

x470 gaming plus

This one is not better than the Max B450  

[Jurrunio]

18 minutes ago, Supersonicwolfe said:

with 8+4 pin

complete bullshit btw since the mosfets are the same with the B450 Tomahawk and Gaming Pro Carbon.

[Deli]

Get the 3600. The improvement is big over the last gen. So much so, 3600 is almost as fas as 2700x multicore, even though it has 2 less cores. And the single thread performance is as good as any Intel K chips.