Swapping an i7-7800x

[PsychoDins]

I've been using an i7-7800x for gaming for a couple of years now and I think it's a great CPU (especially since I got it pretty cheap), but I'm looking to reduce the size of my giant desktop tower and the number of compatible small form-factor X299 motherboards is very limited. can anyone suggest a roughly similar CPU but with a better price-to-performance ratio and a larger choice of compatible motherboards.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

 

My specs:

i7-7800x

Corsair hydro CPU cooler

GTX 1080 Ti

16GB of RAM (planning on upgrading)

2 x M.2 SSD's

2 x SATA SSD's

Corsair SF600 PSU

[porina]

For gaming/general use, Ryzen 3600. I'm assuming you're not making use of the 7800X's strengths like quad channel ram or AVX-512?

[PsychoDins]

4 minutes ago, porina said:

For gaming/general use, Ryzen 3600. I'm assuming you're not making use of the 7800X's strengths like quad channel ram or AVX-512?

I've really only used for gaming and general stuff. I haven't pushed it to its max or taken advantage of its more technical features.

[porina]

4 minutes ago, PsychoDins said:

I've really only used for gaming and general stuff. I haven't pushed it to its max or taken advantage of its more technical features.

Ok, a Ryzen 3600 is going to be similar or even maybe faster. The 7800X from memory runs 4 GHz stock (at least mine did). The 3600 has generally higher IPC and will often turbo above that, but it varies more with load.

[PsychoDins]

12 minutes ago, porina said:

Ok, a Ryzen 3600 is going to be similar or even maybe faster. The 7800X from memory runs 4 GHz stock (at least mine did). The 3600 has generally higher IPC and will often turbo above that, but it varies more with load.

Sounds like a good choice, I've never had an AMD CPU before but I know they're pulling ahead of intel at the moment. I checked the list of compatible micro ATX motherboards and they've got some good choices at decent prices.

 

It sounds like a great suggestion, thank you.