Upgrade help

[Cars Canadian]

Hello everyone

 

So I was wondering what Ryzen cpu I should get and what motherboard I should get with it. I'm upgrade from an Intel I5-6600k and I have a EVGA 1060 6GB SC (that I plan to keep). Or should I wait for the next gen Ryzen series.

 

For the motherboard:

I do NOT plan to overclock

I want some thing that is robust but not to expensive

and something that has at least 3 sata port and a n M.2 slot

 

For the CPU

I do quite a bit of video productions (live streaming, some light editing, etc)

but I also play quite a bit of games.

and I don't my GPU to be the serve bottleneck

also, I do some game dev (with Unity but not that often)

basically a all around good motherboard (hopefully around 400$(less if possible))

 

Thanks

 

Edit: RN my cpu is the bottle neck (I play quite a bit of cpu intensive games such as BeamNG and sim games)

[Haro]

3 minutes ago, Cars Canadian said:

Hello everyone

 

So I was wondering what Ryzen cpu I should get and what motherboard I should get with it. I'm upgrade from an Intel I5-6600k and I have a EVGA 1060 6GB SC (that I plan to keep). Or should I wait for the next gen Ryzen series.

 

For the motherboard:

I do NOT plan to overclock

I want some thing that is robust but not to expensive

and something that has at least 3 sata port and a n M.2 slot

 

For the CPU

I do quite a bit of video productions (live streaming, some light editing, etc)

but I also play quite a bit of games.

and I don't my GPU to be the serve bottleneck

also, I do some game dev (with Unity but not that often)

basically a all around good motherboard (hopefully around 400$(less if possible))

 

Thanks

Wait for zen 3 and if it wasn't as what you expected ( maybe less ipc than you expected or not a big imc improvement ) or the prices for the zen 3 are too high you'll be able to get zen 2 for cheaper 

So you'll win either way

[Cars Canadian]

2 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Wait for zen 3 and if it wasn't as what you expected ( maybe less ipc than you expected or not a big imc improvement ) or the prices for the zen 3 are too high you'll be able to get zen 2 for cheaper 

So you'll win either way

ok, thats sorta what I thought. Thanks

 

Edit: what does ipc and imc mean?

[Haro]

Just now, Cars Canadian said:

ok, thats sorta what I thought. Thanks

Anytime

[Haro]

3 minutes ago, Cars Canadian said:

Edit: what does ipc and imc mean?

Ipc : instructions per core 

Imc: integrated memory controller

[Cars Canadian]

11 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Anytime

Does the zen3 require a different chipset?

[Demonic Donut]

2 minutes ago, Cars Canadian said:

Does the zen3 require a different chipset?

X570 b550 and x470 will run zen3. I'd recommend going to the 5 series personally. Price isn't too much more.

 

$400 total or just for the Mobo? What's your total upgrade budget?

 

I have two gigabyte x570 aorus elites in my house and they have both been great paired with 3600's. A 3600 + that board is right about $400.

 

While you don't have to OC. I do recommend it. I get better performance at lower voltage/wattage vs stock or PBO. When I built my wife's PC recently I just put voltage at 1.2 and did a 4.2 all core. Completely stable and faster AND cooler than stock.