Which CPU? Upgrade mobo?

[Palahniuk]

Currently, my PC setup is:

 

Ryzen 7 1700 CPU

32GB RAM

X370 Gaming Pro Carbon mobo

Radeon Sapphire Vega 64 Nitro GPU

 

Would I see significant enough boost in performance upgrading my CPU to 3rd gen Ryzen? If so, what is recommended? Also would I need to upgrade motherboard to fit or are they both the same socket???

 

Cheers for any help!

[boggy77]

14 minutes ago, Palahniuk said:

Currently, my PC setup is:

 

Ryzen 7 1700 CPU

32GB RAM

X370 Gaming Pro Carbon mobo

Radeon Sapphire Vega 64 Nitro GPU

 

Would I see significant enough boost in performance upgrading my CPU to 3rd gen Ryzen? If so, what is recommended? Also would I need to upgrade motherboard to fit or are they both the same socket???

 

Cheers for any help!

Same socket, but you'll need to update bios. But your build looks solid. Do you have a reason to upgrade? What do you use your pc for? A r5 3600 or r7 3700 would be good options.

[Palahniuk]

On 11/28/2019 at 10:20 PM, boggy77 said:

Same socket, but you'll need to update bios. But your build looks solid. Do you have a reason to upgrade? What do you use your pc for? A r5 3600 or r7 3700 would be good options.

Thanks! I compose music, and am a lighting designer so some 3D rendering when programming, use the same PC for gaming also! 

[pstarlord]

That's literally the exact build I made last November (except I went with Vega 56) haha. 

 

I upgraded mine to a 3700x, Gigabyte Aorus Master Mobo and Nitro+ 5700xt recently.  Just ordered the CPU and mobo, should be in next week.  I can tell you if there is any significant increase in performance if you'd like.  (shoot me a PM so I don't forget) As it turns out, I also produce music haha. 

 

What kind of music do you produce?  Are you using a lot of virtual instruments? or using digital audio?  If you're using the virtual instruments, they can tend to be really RAM heavy, so it's good you have 32 Gigs.  In terms of core counts and usage, it will depends on the plugins you use and how they are programmed, a lot of reverbs that I have tend to really take advantage of the multiple cores and threads.  Since time based plugins tend to be the most demanding, along with pitch shifting, you should see an upgrade if you switch to a more modern Zen 2 architecture in your CPU.  

 

I actually don't use my AMD build in my studio, I have an Intel 7700k in my studio PC, and the 4 core 8 thread has never been overworked even with 100 tracks of audio running and quite a few plugins.  I did get my 64 gigs of RAM to be about 80% utilized on that though.  But if you're doing composing, and using a bunch of virtual tracks then you might have a different experience. 

 

Are you noticing that  your PC can't keep up with your current projects?