Upgrading cpu for 30 series

[NoCster]

Concerned that my i5-9600k will limit the 3080 quite a bit, not really sure where to start with upgrading.

 

 

 

 

[Potatocell]

ryzen is the only way, maybe wait for zen 3 and third party 30xx cards 

[Fasauceome]

a used i7, if you find a good deal around $200. but those are rare.

[AndrewZScorpion]

The only problem there could be is if the 3080 fully saturates PCIe 3.0x16, which is possible but I doubt it will be the case. I’d say wait to find out and buy Ryzen if it needs PCIe 4.0.

[Guest]

i mean whats gonna change if you keep the cpu and see some bottlenecking? you can still buy a new cpu after that...

[VeganJoy]

get a 9700k or 8700k, i see them going for 200-240 for 8700ks and 250-270 for 9700ks.

[Jurrunio]

Just overclock it, unless you play CPU heavy games the 9600k will suffice

[zeusthemoose]

14 minutes ago, Potatocell said:

ryzen is the only way, maybe wait for zen 3 and third party 30xx cards 

As much as I love ryzen it is not necessarily the best option all the time. In this case a used 9th i7 would be great like fasauceome said. It will have slightly better gaming performance and be cheaper because op won’t need to buy a new motherboard.

 

14 minutes ago, AndrewZScorpion said:

The only problem there could be is if the 3080 fully saturates PCIe 3.0x16, which is possible but I doubt it will be the case. I’d say wait to find out and buy Ryzen if it needs PCIe 4.0.

According to some q&a answers Nvidia just responded to (in tech news if you are interested), ampere does see a slight performance bump by going with pcie 4.0 but not as big a difference as a better cpu. Which is why they used an i9 for their tests instead of a pcie 4.0 capable amd cpu.

[NoCster]

38 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

As much as I love ryzen it is not necessarily the best option all the time. In this case a used 9th i7 would be great like fasauceome said. It will have slightly better gaming performance and be cheaper because op won’t need to buy a new motherboard.

 

According to some q&a answers Nvidia just responded to (in tech news if you are interested), ampere does see a slight performance bump by going with pcie 4.0 but not as big a difference as a better cpu. Which is why they used an i9 for their tests instead of a pcie 4.0 capable amd cpu.

Buying used CPU's always seemed sketchy to me, Micro Center has an i7-9700k on sale for $300 right now.

[Fasauceome]

9 hours ago, NoCster said:

Buying used CPU's always seemed sketchy to me, Micro Center has an i7-9700k on sale for $300 right now.

It's hard to suggest when you can get a ryzen 5 3600 at only $200 and a ryzen 7 3700X at $290

[NoCster]

5 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

It's hard to suggest when you can get a ryzen 5 3600 at only $200 and a ryzen 7 3700X at $290

I completely agree that Ryzen would be the better choice. But in this instance considering that I mainly game, and that buying a new motherboard would be a requirement for Ryzen the i7 would be a cheaper-ish option. Hey maybe i'm so so wrong lol.

[Haro]

On 9/3/2020 at 8:01 PM, NoCster said:

not really sure where to start with upgrading.

in gaming, the 9600k is still pretty decent esepcially with an overclock and at higher resolutions as well, it should pair nicely, though just wait for ampere to actually launch and check how they perform and how the 9600k holds up with a 3080.

[Centurius]

The 3000 series is not going to be bottlenecked by a 9600k in any gaming workload except for the most extremely CPU intensive games (honestly even then only unoptimized games). There is likely no need to upgrade unless you have additional workloads that can benefit from more cores, PCIe gen 4 or any of the other features newer/different platforms offer.

 

Edit: Just to place this in some perspective. I've been using the 4770K for about 7 years now and last year paired it with an RTX 2080. This CPU has not been a bottleneck in any gaming scenario so far with only one or two exceptions out of the dozens of titles I've played. It's even done decently well while simultaneously running OBS with a bunch of animations and effects and streaming at 1080p with 6000 Kbps. This CPU is a lot further behind the 2080 than yours is to the 3000 series. The only reason I'm even shifting to the 3950X next week is that I wanted PCIe gen 4, NVMe storage and would like a faster CPU to work on 4k (and 8k) footage in Premiere Pro.

[Fasauceome]

2 hours ago, NoCster said:

I completely agree that Ryzen would be the better choice. But in this instance considering that I mainly game, and that buying a new motherboard would be a requirement for Ryzen the i7 would be a cheaper-ish option. Hey maybe i'm so so wrong lol.

Ryzen is hardly bad for gaming, and more threads can be pretty important for certain titles. Depends on what you play mostly though.

 

However, used market prices on Z390 and Z370 boards are pretty good so you'd be making up quite a lot of cost from that (possibly even making a profit after it's all said and done, $250 for the i5 and maybe $150 for the motherboard and you can buy a $120 board and $200 CPU to replace it)