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Sam F
By Sam F
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I currently have a Ryzen 5 1600 but am upgrading my graphics card to a 2080 super and need to upgrade my CPU. Any recommendations for video edition (moderate workstation processes) and gaming. Must be AM4. I have a B450 Aorus pro WiFi and don’t want to upgrade that so preferably within those power specs.

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38 minutes ago, Sam Flanzer said:

I currently have a Ryzen 5 1600 but am upgrading my graphics card to a 2080 super and need to upgrade my CPU. Any recommendations for video edition (moderate workstation processes) and gaming. Must be AM4. I have a B450 Aorus pro WiFi and don’t want to upgrade that so preferably within those power specs.

The 1600 is more overclockable than more modern chips.  With big cooling you can clock it high enough to be competitive with 2xxx level stuff.  An Aorus B450 pro has the VRM to take a 3700 or even a 3900 if you don’t OC it.  It does not have the bios, but you can flash it with the 1600 chip to have bios to make the new chips work though.

 

So you can either buy watercooling for your 1600, OC the snot out of it and keep going, or put more or less whatever new CPU you want into it.  Your choice.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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Just now, Sam Flanzer said:

Ok, thank you. I have water cooling 

A good custom loop can push a 1600 into 3600 territory if you got a golden chip.  3600s don’t clock for beans though.  What are you running the 1600 at?

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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So you’re getting near 26xx levels.  A 3600 or 3700 would be a speed boost.

Not a pro, not even very good.  I’m just old and have time currently.  Assuming I know a lot about computers can be a mistake.

 

Life is like a bowl of chocolates: there are all these little crinkly paper cups everywhere.

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