Ryzen + Corsair Plantinums 3000mhz buy CPU or wait

[Romano]

Hi

 

I'm looking to upgrade from i5 6600k to a Ryzen CPU, I was gonna wait for the new CPU's and get a 8 core but its taking forever.

 

I was thinking about buying a B550 board and get a 3600 I already have 32 GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum Kit Model CMD16GX4M2B3000C15 So my plan is to use that and just get CPU+Mobo.

 

I need a board with enough USB ports for the Oculust Rift headset, WiFi is irrelevant I have a PCI WiFi card, good chip audio is needed.

 

The reason why I didn't upgrade earlier was because I never had an AMD CPU and it was required to upgrade the motherboad bios, otherwise I was not gonna be able to boot. But I believe the B550 boards will work out of the box with the 3600?

 

I live in Venezuela and I could sell the 3600 later on and not lose money. I also think that the new ryzen CPU's will be so hard to find when they lanch and with price way higher than MSRP. 

 

Any recommendations? I want to upgrade because I'm having such a hard time playing PUBG with this i5

[Romano]

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[Guest]

What about just upgrading to a 7700K? 4/8c/t cpu with potential of 5ghz, you'd be getting better FPS than a 3600X at that point. 

 

Your CL15 memory will be a pain to run on an AMD system too.

 

So I propose suggestion to upgrade the Cpu to a 7700K and wait out to see if replacing the platform is an option after Zen3 release. 

 

whatcha think?

 

 

[HKG_PILOT]

Wait. You could buy a B550 board first tho.

[Romano]

6 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

What about just upgrading to a 7700K? 4/8c/t cpu with potential of 5ghz, you'd be getting better FPS than a 3600X at that point. 

 

Your CL15 memory will be a pain to run on an AMD system too.

 

So I propose suggestion to upgrade the Cpu to a 7700K and wait out to see if replacing the platform is an option after Zen3 release. 

 

whatcha think?

 

 

 

My mobo is a ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII GENE LGA1151 Z170 mATX Motherboard I'm almost sure the 7700k is not compatible with this mobo, from what I heard some i7's still have issues with PUBG.

 

I'm not sure why CL15 memory will be a pain to run on an AMD system can you elaborate? I'm ignorant on this topic. But I checked the Corsair memory list of compability and my kit is not in that list

[Romano]

2 minutes ago, HKG_PILOT said:

Wait. You could buy a B550 board first tho.

That's what I was thinking buying the B550 + 3600 and sell it later on, I won't lose money because in my country 3600 CPU's are sold for 200+ new. But seems like my memory is not good for Ryzen