Is this good route?

[servethedark]

Hi, I'm upgrading my motherboard and cpu for a long overdue upgrade on my gaming pc. (i5 4460 and ASRock Z97 Extreme3). Currently looking at Ryzen 7 3700x paired with Gigabyte X570 AORUS Elite and 16gb Vengence LPX RAM. Rest of parts I am just moving over from old PC (Upgraded to a 1060 6gb two years ago so holding off on GPU upgrade). Was curious if I made good picks or if there is somewhere to improve (or if i should hold off on upgrading at all for a few months for new hardware). Would like to keep price in same general area if possible.

[CopiWasTaken]

2 minutes ago, servethedark said:

Hi, I'm upgrading my motherboard and cpu for a long overdue upgrade on my gaming pc. (i5 4460 and ASRock Z97 Extreme3). Currently looking at Ryzen 7 3700x paired with Gigabyte X570 AORUS Elite and 16gb Vengence LPX RAM. Rest of parts I am just moving over from old PC (Upgraded to a 1060 6gb two years ago so holding off on GPU upgrade). Was curious if I made good picks or if there is somewhere to improve (or if i should hold off on upgrading at all for a few months for new hardware). Would like to keep price in same general area if possible.

Looks good, although you could go 3600 and a tomahawk B450 in order to save some money for a better GPU, or wait till 4th gen Ryzen. 

[xg32]

6 minutes ago, servethedark said:

Hi, I'm upgrading my motherboard and cpu for a long overdue upgrade on my gaming pc. (i5 4460 and ASRock Z97 Extreme3). Currently looking at Ryzen 7 3700x paired with Gigabyte X570 AORUS Elite and 16gb Vengence LPX RAM. Rest of parts I am just moving over from old PC (Upgraded to a 1060 6gb two years ago so holding off on GPU upgrade). Was curious if I made good picks or if there is somewhere to improve (or if i should hold off on upgrading at all for a few months for new hardware). Would like to keep price in same general area if possible.

good motherboard, i'd pick some other ram, but overall u should wait.

[Haro]

1 hour ago, servethedark said:

Gigabyte X570 AORUS Elite

The board is not bad. But is pricey  and doesn't offer anything special. 

For x570 the x570 tomahawk and the x570-p and the tuf are pretty good. 

As for b550. The tomahawk and the mortar and the strix f and the aorus pro and the a pro and the steel legend are good. 

1 hour ago, servethedark said:

16gb Vengence LPX RAM.

There's nothing objectively bad about them. It's just what is this specific kit rated at in terms of latency and frequency?

 

1 hour ago, servethedark said:

Ryzen 7 3700x

If you're just gaming you could go with a 3600 and save some money, as games don't scale up to 8 cores so the performance between these two in gaming is very similar if not the same in some cases. 

Another option is to wait for zen 3 and check what it has to offer as well. (I would recommend doing that.). 

Edited July 26, 2020 by TofuHaroto