5Ghz on the Cheap?

[Mopy]

(Satire) Context:

Recently I have been playing a game called "Prison Architect" and other simlar titles and I remmbered why the game is performing so badily, its a single threaded game which is supprising concidering most of the proccessing power is going towards pathfinding for NPCs, something which could more easily be multi-threaded that other tasks anyway I should probably get more on point. After pestering the studio on twitter about there anual profits and why they can't spend half a day for multithread performance with some incoherant mutterings of "potental DLC" - thanks paradox on the forum as well. I decided to move on to clearly see that they were not responacable for there lasyness Its clearly my fault as a consumer for not spending £400 plus board on the top end intel proccesser. I mark up this satire paragraph with a little inside joke of "here is the card Paradox, HOW MUCH?"

 

Actual Point:

I have a Ryzen 2700x and I was thinking about an upgrade soon since game Multithreading is to much of a task for a studio with the earnings of over 700 million per year; then I thought wait I am "cheap af" as my peers would say so I was wanting to enquire what would be the cheapest setup I could possibly do with could maintain 5ghz stabily for over an hour. I was thinking there might be a right combination of CPU and cooler or even my own custom loop so please inform me if you have any ideas.

 

P.S. Don't take the jokes to seriously I have only paid them around £400 in total for my games, Im clearly just a compaining Karren.

[jaslion]

Just wait for ryzen 4000. It's coming in q3 and will be much better.

[Mopy]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

Just wait for ryzen 4000. It's coming in q3 and will be much better.

Okay but I am wary of, the "Just wait another release cycle", also I dought it will be able to sustain 5ghz

[-rascal-]

Just now, Mopy said:

Okay but I am wary of, the "Just wait another release cycle"

 

Ryzen 4000-series will be based on the 'Zen 3' architecture, and should have additional IPC and frequency improvements over the current 'Zen 2' chips.

If you can't wait, i5-10600K would be a solid 5.0+ GHz option, paired with a mid-range $150 ~ $200 USD motherboard, and a beefy air cooler.

 

Air cooler or AIO is fine.

As soon as you add in custom water cooling loop, that is no longer "on the cheap", as that will easily be an extra $300 ~ $400, just for a CPU loop.

[AMD A10-9600P]

1 minute ago, Mopy said:

Okay but I am wary of, the "Just wait another release cycle", also I dought it will be able to sustain 5ghz

5GHz isn't the only consideration to make. Current 4GHz Ryzen chips only lag behind Intel chips that are being pushed to the 5GHz mark in terms of single core performance very slightly. When the new chips come out, they'll have made improvements across the board, more importantly where you want it, in terms of single core performance. My situation is kinda the opposite of yours, I spent a comparable amount of money for an 9600KF that can reach 4.8GHz on all 6 cores, when I could've gone for a 12 thread Ryzen 3600 that would have beaten it handily in more modern titles, but I invested in Intel instead as the programs I tend to use favour single core performance

[Mopy]

Just now, -rascal- said:

 

Ryzen 4000-series will be based on the 'Zen 3' architecture, and should have additional IPC and frequency improvements over the current 'Zen 2' chips.

If you can't wait, i5-10600K would be a solid 5.0+ GHz option, paired with a mid-range $150 ~ $200 USD motherboard, and a beefy air cooler.

 

Air cooler or AIO is fine.

As soon as you add in custom water cooling loop, that is no longer "on the cheap", as that will easily be an extra $300 ~ $400, just for a CPU loop.

You Can get Cheap Blocks on amazon submersable pumps arnt to expencive and resuvours don't tend to be ether to much more ether the radiator is around 50 -100

[-rascal-]

26 minutes ago, Mopy said:

You Can get Cheap Blocks on amazon submersable pumps arnt to expencive and resuvours don't tend to be ether to much more ether the radiator is around 50 -100

 

True, but then you add in the cost of fittings, tubing, etc.

 

Up to you to use Amazon / China made CPU water cooling parts...

I prefer not to take that risk, when mixed metal blocks + radiators corrode each other, leaks starts popping up because of cheap seals, pump failures...and such...

[Zberg]

10600k should get you there at a reasonable (<10900k/9900k/9700k) price.