CPU upgrade time

[SouthBi4ch]

Hello,

 

I am interested in an upgrade. I currently own a Ryzen 7 1700, 16 gigs of ram at 3000 from GSKILL, and a Gigabyte Aorus Gaming k5 motherboard, paired with a 1070 SC from EVGA. I am interested into making a cpu upgrade. I am a software developer, working from home currently, I am also a gamer. I am interested in the zen3 lineup of cpus, I am aware that this would require me to buy a new motherboard and faster ram(this way I can sell cpu mb ram as a combo). Planning to get a new GPU next year, probably from AMD, thinking 6800, should be enough for some 3440x1440p 144hz gaming. What my question is, should I get a 5600x or a 5800x. Where I live, in Romania, prices in euros are 330 for the 5600x, and 480 for the 5800x. For reference a 3800xt sells for like 390 euros. Gaming wise both are great. I am not sure I would be taking advantage of the 8c 16t, since I already have a 1700 and i never felt i needed this much cores.  I work in Web Development, I always run multiple servers locally, dbs, and lots of programs and I've never seen this cpu hit not even 40% usage, while I work. I like the idea of having more cores for future proofing, i don't know if it's worth the 50% price difference. What do you guys think? Zen3 is the last to use this socket, so it doesn't offer in the coming years a clear upgrade path.

[Jurrunio]

Tbh if you care about value for gaming, Zen 2 3700X is enough. the 6 and 8 core Zen 3 CPUs are too expensive even relative to their higher core count brothers.

 

As for memory, 4x8gb 3600MHz CL16 memory is as good as you will need (unless you want more capacity)