New Mobo & CPU advice please.

[AC86]

Budget (including currency): £200 (ideally, see below) GBP

Country: England 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Variety of games, examples are GTA5, Warhammer Spacemarine, Age Of Empires 2 DE, Dark Souls 3, Fall Guys, Fortnite, Frostpunk. Will not be used for anything else apart from watching films. No intention of streaming. No intention of video or audio editing.

Other details

Here is my current setup:
Processor: AMD FX-4100
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4Gb
RAM: 2x 8Gb 1333mhz DDR3 Corsair Vengance 
Storage: 1x Lexar 512Gb SSD, 1x Seagate 1TB HDD, 1x Hitachi 1TB HDD

Cooling: 5x Corsair RGB fans (not the pro expensive version, just the standard ones)
PSU: Corsair VS650w
Case: Corsair Carbide SPEC-04 Midi-Tower

 

The RAM will of course need upgrading at some point, for now only interested in mobo and cpu EDIT: I will buy some 3200 DDR4 cl16

As the Ryzen 3300x appears to be discontinued/scalped off the face of the planet (it’s been out of stock everywhere for 3 months) looking at the following ballpark:

Ryzen 3 3100 (£99)

or

Ryzen 5 2600x (£136)

 

and 

Asus Rog Strix B450-F (£100)

or

Aorus B450 Pro (£95)

 

Please can you advise if the 2600x is even worth it based on what I want to use my pc for and which of the two motherboards is better, it would also be beneficial for me to know if the cpu will work “out of the box” with either board or will I have to do something with the bios (never done anything like this before).

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

8 minutes ago, AC86 said:

The RAM will of course need upgrading at some point, for now only interested in mobo and cpu

 

your current ram wont work with any cpu from the last 4 years. I would wait a bit and spend more on a used r5 3600 and some ddr4 3600mhz cl16.

[AC86]

5 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

your current ram wont work with any cpu from the last 4 years. I would wait a bit and spend more on a used r5 3600 and some ddr4 3600mhz cl16.

Oh my gosh really??! Well I can afford to buy RAM if necessary, is my existing RAMs clock speed to slow is that why it won’t work?

 

[svmlegacy]

2 minutes ago, AC86 said:

Oh my gosh really??! Well I can afford to buy RAM if necessary, is my existing RAMs clock speed to slow is that why it won’t work?

Your old RAM is the older DDR3 type memory. All Ryzen CPU's only accept DDR4 type memory.

[CommanderAlex]

2 minutes ago, AC86 said:

Oh my gosh really??! Well I can afford to buy RAM if necessary, is my existing RAMs clock speed to slow is that why it won’t work?

 

Your current system uses DDR3, we are already on DDR4 and DDR4 is not backwards compatible with DDR3 due to design specs (that notch is different) as well as voltages. 

[AC86]

Okay I’ve found Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz C16 XMP 2.0 (£76)

 

Back to the original query around CPU/Mobo please

[AC86]

I decided to go for the Ryzen 3 3100 with the Aorus B450 Pro