comparison Cpu vs Gpu bottlenecking.

[astronomia]

As the title of this thread suggest, im currently living with pretty severe bottleneck from my intel i5 5600 having to deal with a RTX2060. (Purchased knowing of the bottleneck but i got a good price, ok :) )

 

Since blackfriday and the holiday season coming up shortly its time to upgrade the rest of the rig, whats recommended for the least amount of bottleneck is pairing an intel i7 8700k with the 2060 and 16 gb of 3200? ram.

But since i live in sweden and for some reason stores here price intel cpu's with insane profit margins, im available to get AMD cpus and AM4 boards for a better price than the intel alternatives. The question is it worth to get an r7 3700x some decent B450 motherboard and 16/32 gb of 3600 Mhz ram to go with it for about the same price even tho it will result in the cpu being bottlenecked by the gpu?

 

Tl:dr, is it worth going from cpu to gpu bottleneck or should i go with a no bottleneck solution with less potential for upgrading in the future?

[Streetguru]

7 minutes ago, ItsTworty said:

As the title of this thread suggest, im currently living with pretty severe bottleneck from my intel i5 5600 having to deal with a RTX2060. (Purchased knowing of the

What's your monitor resolution/refresh rate?

[astronomia]

6 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

What's your monitor resolution/refresh rate?

1920 x 1080 @ 144hz.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, ItsTworty said:

1920 x 1080 @ 144hz.

 

 

Then either the 8700K or R5 2600/3600 will be fine, the 3000 series is mostly tied with intel, the 2600 is maybe 10% behind.

 

do you really need the 8 cores from the 3700X?

 

Because the 3600 has the same performance in games basically after a quick overclock.

 

You'd want an MSI B450 board with USB bios flashing like the B450 Gaming in any event.

 

Don't really need 32GBs of RAM for gaming, and it's harder to get it running at higher speeds in general.

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Full spec list:

I5 5600

Pc mate z170a 

2133 mhz 8 gb

RTX 2060 6gb gigabyte

Corsair b450m

500 gb Ssd for OS and high prio games

2 tb seagate seahawk? Or whatever its called.

 

1920 x 1080 @ 144hz display x2

 

 I wan to be able to play everything on low setting but on high fps.

 

[astronomia]

15 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Then either the 8700K or R5 2600/3600 will be fine, the 3000 series is mostly tied with intel, the 2600 is maybe 10% behind.

 

do you really need the 8 cores from the 3700X?

 

Because the 3600 has the same performance in games basically after a quick overclock.

 

You'd want an MSI B450 board with USB bios flashing like the B450 Gaming in any event.

 

Don't really need 32GBs of RAM for gaming, and it's harder to get it running at higher speeds in general.

Thanks for the reply, ive looked over the r5 3600 options and, it would be around 200$ cheaper than the 8700k alternative. I know that 3600mhz ram is recommended for 3700x and 3900x is it the same with 3600 / 3600x?

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Just now, ItsTworty said:

Thanks for the reply, ive looked over the r5 3600 options and, it would be around 200$ cheaper than the 8700k alternative. I know that 3600mhz ram is recommended for 3700x and 3900x is it the same with 3600 / 3600x?

It'd be the same for all Ryzen 3000 CPUs, 3600mhz CL16 RAM is a safe bet, just want to double check motherboard compatibility.

Wouldn't buy 3600mhz CL18 RAM over cheaper 3200mhz Cl16 RAM though.