CPU & MB Upgrade

[Hypoxz]

Im going to upgrade my PC with a new cpu and mb and maybe some ram. But i dont know what motherboard i should go for.

I am planning to buy the I7 9700K 

And maybe sell my current ram and get new ram sticks with higher capacity per stick for upgradability

and later when the nvidia 3000 series come out upgrade to something like a 3080 (i heard somewhere in Q4)

current specs:

Ryzen 5 2600

Aorus B450 Elite

2x 8gb corsair vengeance lpx

msi gtx 980 

dark rock pro 4

 

[alex0810]

I think it will be way easier and way more cost effetive to upgrade to a ryzen 7 3700x with your actual mobo but if if you sill wan't to go intel you an buy a 

ASUS Prime Z390-A Motherboard

[Hypoxz]

2 minutes ago, alex0810 said:

I think it will be way easier and way more cost effetive to upgrade to a ryzen 7 3700x with your actual mobo but if if you sill wan't to go intel you an buy a 

ASUS Prime Z390-A Motherboard

Yeah i really want intel because its just better. That board looks good but the colors dont fit with my system at all. so its not really an option

[alex0810]

what color do you want ? 

 

and btw intel is not the fastest anymore but that your money so 

[Hypoxz]

2 minutes ago, alex0810 said:

what color do you want ? 

 

and btw intel is not the fastest anymore but that your money so 

for colors black and some red accents are also ok. but if possible black with rgb

 

no but for gaming a i7 9700k wins over the r7 3700x

[Hypoxz]

2 minutes ago, alex0810 said:

what color do you want ? 

 

and btw intel is not the fastest anymore but that your money so 

and no gigabyte/aorus boards because the rgb software sucks.... i cant link it to anything

[alex0810]

This board is also preaty good MSI MPG Z390 

 

and you should see this video 

 

[Mateyyy]

6 minutes ago, Hypoxz said:

Yeah i really want intel because its just better.

How so..?

You'd be locking yourself in a dead platform by going with the 9700K, I really don't see the point.

1 minute ago, Hypoxz said:

no but for gaming a i7 9700k wins over the r7 3700x

Maybe, but I'd expect the 3700X to start outperforming it in any game coming in the next few years as they can take advantage of even more cores/threads.

 

Also, I can't imagine that a 2600 is bottlenecking your GTX 980 at the moment. I'd just wait if I were you and save some more money until you actually plan on upgrading to Ampere.

[Hypoxz]

3 minutes ago, alex0810 said:

This board is also preaty good MSI MPG Z390 

 

and you should see this video 

 

yeah that board looks good i will look for some reviews and stuff and look deeper into it thx

[Hypoxz]

2 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

How so..?

You'd be locking yourself in a dead platform by going with the 9700K, I really don't see the point.

Maybe, but I'd expect the 3700X to start outperforming it in any game coming in the next few years as they can take advantage of even more cores/threads.

 

Also, I can't imagine that a 2600 is bottlenecking your GTX 980 at the moment. I'd just wait if I were you and save some more money until you actually plan on upgrading to Ampere.

Yeah i know but like you said the next few years but right now an i7 9700k outpeforms the r7 3700x in gaming and even outpeforms the r9 3900x in gaming

and its not bottlenecking it but i want to upgrade both,

[SavageNeo]

1 minute ago, Hypoxz said:

Yeah i know but like you said the next few years but right now an i7 9700k outpeforms the r7 3700x in gaming and even outpeforms the r9 3900x in gaming

and its not bottlenecking it but i want to upgrade both,

by 1-2fps yes. and that ryzen 7 3700x is cheaper, and you can upgrade it in the future without buying another motherboard.

 

AMD is no-brainer rn. if you really want to outperform r7 3700x noticepally buy i9 9900k it gets 1-5% better in games. i7 9700k is just 0-2% better.

[Hypoxz]

1 minute ago, SavageNeo said:

by 1-2fps yes. and that ryzen 7 3700x is cheaper, and you can upgrade it in the future without buying another motherboard.

 

AMD is no-brainer rn. if you really want to outperform r7 3700x noticepally buy i9 9900k it gets 1-5% better in games. i7 9700k is just 0-2% better.

True.. but i dont really like my current mb. especially the rgb software and compatibility is bad so im probably going to upgrade my motherboard anyways so then its not really a difference right?

[Mateyyy]

12 minutes ago, Hypoxz said:

Yeah i know but like you said the next few years but right now an i7 9700k outpeforms the r7 3700x in gaming and even outpeforms the r9 3900x in gaming

and its not bottlenecking it but i want to upgrade both,

Outperforms, in a limited number of games that can only take advantage of a couple of cores, by a marginal amount, generally unnoticeable. 

If you play at 1080p 240Hz and think you'd really notice the extra 3FPS on average with the 9700K compared to a 3700X or even a 3600 for that matter, then go ahead, but unless you just have cash to burn it really doesn't sound like a smart choice to me.

[Hypoxz]

6 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Outperforms, in a limited number of games that can only take advantage of a couple of cores, by a marginal amount, generally unnoticeable. 

If you play at 1080p 240Hz and think you'd really notice the extra 3FPS on average with the 9700K compared to a 3700X or even a 3600 for that matter, then go ahead, but unless you just have cash to burn it really doesn't sound like a smart choice to me.

Yeah thats true and if i go for ryzen then i would probably first get the new cpu and use it with my current board and then upgrade to new mb and then new ram/gpu

in that case r7 3700 3800 or r9 3900x

[Hypoxz]

11 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Outperforms, in a limited number of games that can only take advantage of a couple of cores, by a marginal amount, generally unnoticeable. 

If you play at 1080p 240Hz and think you'd really notice the extra 3FPS on average with the 9700K compared to a 3700X or even a 3600 for that matter, then go ahead, but unless you just have cash to burn it really doesn't sound like a smart choice to me.

and does vr benefit from ryzen(extra cores/threads)

?

[Hypoxz]

14 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Outperforms, in a limited number of games that can only take advantage of a couple of cores, by a marginal amount, generally unnoticeable. 

If you play at 1080p 240Hz and think you'd really notice the extra 3FPS on average with the 9700K compared to a 3700X or even a 3600 for that matter, then go ahead, but unless you just have cash to burn it really doesn't sound like a smart choice to me.

In my country 

the r7 3700x is 300 euros

r7 3800x is 370 euros

r9 3900x is 450 euros

[Mateyyy]

9 minutes ago, Hypoxz said:

In my country 

the r7 3700x is 300 euros

r7 3800x is 370 euros

r9 3900x is 450 euros

I'd suggest going for the 3700X out of those, the 3800X isn't worth that much more money as it's just a slightly better binned 3700X, and the 3900X won't offer much of an improvement just for gaming. It's also the highest end CPU (the 3700X) that I would put in your B450 Elite.

12 minutes ago, Hypoxz said:

and does vr benefit from ryzen(extra cores/threads)

I don't personally have much of any experience regarding VR, but I reckon anything with 8 cores and up will be plenty.