Upgrade i5 7600k (new RTX 2080 bottlenecked?)

[stefan2030]

Hi everyone,

 

I have bought an i5 7600k + Noctua DH15 (4.8GHz clock) in late 2017. Recently I have upgraded my monitor to a 34" Ultra Wide 3440x1440 100Hz Display. I realized quickly that my 1060 wouldn't cut it so I went and bought an RTX 2080 (A1, Arctic Accelero Xtreme 4 custom cooling).

 

Games I play:

Battlefield 5

soon: Red Dead Redemption 2 (PC)

 

I often buy Blu Rays and rip / encode them to x265 (Handbrake CPU) for my plex server.

 

Question: Does it make sense to upgrade the 7600k already? GamersNexus says that RDR2 runs very crappy on 7600k and overall is the CPU bottlenecking the 2080 very heavily?

 

Possible shopping list for Black Friday:

Ryzen 3600 (with the Noctua DH15 should do the same as the 3600x) (or does it make sense to go bigger to 3700?

Linus and Steve Burke say that RAM with Ryzen 3000 is tricky, any suggestions?

 

OR am I just overthinking this and should stay with the 7600k?

 

Thank you, I would be happy about any suggestions :)

 

Greetings from Germany,

 

Stefan

[Fasauceome]

14 minutes ago, stefan2030 said:

OR am I just overthinking this and should stay with the 7600k

only upgrade if performance is not up to your standards. A really high overclock on a 7600K makes it perform well, and if you're getting what you were after then there's no trouble.