CPU selection

[Lemlurker]

I keep finding myself using my gaming pc for more and more workstation style workloads and im constantly feeling like my 9600k just isn't keeping up, i dont ahave a bunch of disposable income as im a student and nor can my rig be offline for a long period since i need my pc for my 3rd yr project (VR development) but i sorely need an uipgrade but i cant decide which poduct line to commit to, ill detail out the usecases and id like to hear your opinions on where i should commit;

 

1) my rig is still primarily gaming focused, current specs are rtx 2080, 9600k at 5ghz, asrock z370 xtreme 4, 16gb corsair 3000mhz ddr4 and a full EK cooling loop

2) the primary heavy loads im running into long render times and baking are:
-Blender
-unity light baking

-substance painter map baking

-cod mw 2019

 

3) i have notice very uneaven fps in many games (1440p, 144) such as pubg, bfv, bf1 and cod along with similar aaa titles

4) i recently built and tested a 2600x based pc with a 1070 and it was SOOO smooth and only about 30fps behind my £2.5k machine

5) a friend with the exact same monitor as me is not *that* far behind me despite only having a 1060 because hes got a 3600x

 

the trouble is this is an even bigger jump than normal to move platforms... i have a top spec dRGB EK velocity waterblock id have to replace if i move to AMD

budget is what i get for selling my backup pc (i5 4690k, gtx 970) plus the resale value of the 9600k, waterblock and motherboard if i jump platform

 

so far i have the following options (with questions and thoughts appended)

 

Ryzen 3700x, x570 motherboard for around £460, take the £300 off for sale of 9600k, asrock mobo and ek velocity waterblock and its well within any budget for my sale of my pc with a little left over

ryzen 3700x, b450 motherboard, £400. cheapest option for the best cpu, i dont know how the performance and features differ given the older chipset and board generation drop. i wont be using pcie gen 4 for a while i dont think

ryzen 2700x b450 motherboard, cheapest option at just £250 i might actually get money back from the sale of my 9600k and block, let alone the back up pc, could use it to redo my loop somewhat)

is there no R9 chip for the second gen?

i7 9700k at about £300 id net mebe £100-120 loss compared to the sale of my 9600k. feels like a futile upograde for JUST two more cores

i9 9900k, seems like a pipe-dream tbh, somehow i doubt this asrock z370 board is going to be able to push the i9 very hard but if it did that would be £450 so with the sale of my 9600k at around £180 itd cost me £270 so JUST within what i might be able to sell my backup rig for but that assumes i sell it well. im wouldnt have to get a newe cpu block (which saves me downgrading to a cheaper option) but i dont KNOW this fairly cheap motherboard can manage it and be able to OC to take use of my watercooling or even that my watercooling will be able to manage the increased thermal load of the 9900k, i have 1 240 and 1 120mm EK slimstream radiators and when i accidentally forgot the fan on my 120mm the system shut down, that said for the most part my fluid temps dont exceed around 40 degrees and my radiator exhauyst temps a little lower

this final option also will likly have the least down time assuming it works, just a cpu swap over with no fiddling or pc rebuild, trouble is i dont particularly love this motherboard, its uninteresting in appearance, doesnt synk its lights with my corsair peripherals and lacks a dRGB header for my cpu block and possible reservoir upgrade in the future. 

i also feel like the Intel platform is gonna be a dead end... like no new cpu is gonna come to the z370 chipset, the ryzen seems way more open and with higher max options, especially with their new 16 core cpus should i want to truly workstation this pc in a year or so when im working

 

pls halp

i apologise for the wall of text, im super paranoid about making the wrong decision here and the longer i leave it the more other potential options seem to be creaping in and the less specific my saving and searching goals become

 

 

[1van]

21 minutes ago, Lemlurker said:

 

something must be wrong with your system or settings. A 9600K@5GHz + 2080 combo cannot be that slow.

[Lemlurker]

1 minute ago, 1van said:

something must be wrong with your system or settings. A 9600K@5GHz + 2080 combo cannot be that slow.

its always been like this

 

[1van]

2 minutes ago, Lemlurker said:

its always been like this

 

Try finding someone locally, who could look into your existing system. Otherwise there is no guarantee that the new system would not be slow the same way.

 

2600X/3600X can be faster than 9600K in production tasks, but not in gaming. Something is definitely wrong.

 

[Lemlurker]

Just now, 1van said:

Try finding someone locally, who could look into your existing system. Otherwise there is no guarantee that the new system would not be slow the same way.

 

2600X/3600X can be faster than 9600K in production tasks, but not in gaming. Something is definitely wrong.

 

theyve never been FASTER, just thew gap has alweays been really low and ive always been cpu limited