Upgrade Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 to Ryzen?

[Syncenator]

Since everyone seems to be upgrading to Ryzen 6 & 8 core CPU's to get prepared for next gen, I was thinking if I should upgrade or still wait for another generation or two. I currently not really sure because I turned more into a casual gamer and are also very budget oriented. Therefore I would only like to upgrade, if it is really needed and makes a big enough difference to justify the price of switching out all the parts.

 

I play games in 1080p with 60 FPS and lowest settings I would go for keeping 60 FPS are medium graphics. I checked out several benchmarks and saw that there is currently not that much of a difference in most of the games, except very multicore CPU demanding ones like AC or Battlefield V, but that will probably change once the new consoles come out. The only games I have and where I noticed some CPU bottlenecking are a little bit in Star Wars Battlefront 2 & a lot in Battlefield V, where the FPS can drop below 60 from time to time, when the CPU is hitting high usage over 90% and causing the GPU usage to drop a lot.

 

On one hand I would like to wait until more games are affected, but on the other hand I would like to be prepared and also make use of the current worth of my old parts, making the upgrade a little less expensive.

 

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Since MSI is currently having a cashback deal, it would be in my budget of 430€ to upgrade to a Ryzen 3600 non X on a MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max, where I would get back 50€ for buying the board with that specific CPU.

 

The total upgrade would cost me around:

 

168€ - Ryzen 3600

110€ - MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max

70-90€ - 16GB DDR4 RAM @ 3200 Mhz

= 368€ minus the 50€ cashback making it "only" ~ 318€

 

Selling my old PC parts, which would get me around 100-130€ on Ebay, will make it "only" a ~ 200€ expensive upgrade.

 

My current system:

 

CPU - Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 @ 3.3 GHz (Stock)

GPU - 8GB Sapphire Radeon RX 580 Nitro+

MB - GIGABYTE - GA-H87-HD3

RAM - 16GB RAM @ 1600 Mhz

PSU - Be quiet! Pure Power CM BQT L8-CM-630W

 

[Jurrunio]

Sure

[Sir0Tek]

I'd still wait, market-situation will change. AMD is going to present a new cpu (and graphics-series) end of the year anyway, so 'older' Ryzen cpus will probably drop in price and/or will be available 2nd hand quite cheaply. Or maybe Intel does come with a finally-good-enough cpu to take back leadership that could shuffle the prices again.

And we may see how the future develops once the PS5 and the Xbox xbox are available, maybe 8 physical cores will become a necessity for gamers, maybe not.