Z490-G and 10600K - Worth it in late 2020?

[Terminus_V]

I was thinking about going back to Intel and moving into this platform...but PCIe 3 makes it a bit of a downer.

 

It will support rocket lake though...so I'm not really sure. I didn't like AMD's Ryzen 3000 series. Got a B550 motherboard with a 3600X and it feels like beta testing. Too many quirks and things I'd rather not deal with.

[porina]

Running a 10600k in my TV gaming system now. Works great, unlike the 3700X I was building for it and now got rid of.

 

Now if you should or not depends on a whole ton of factors. Way I look at systems now, if you need the best, you get whatever is the best. If you're not after that, you only need to reach a good enough level. Spend the time gaming and not worrying about hardware choice.

[SkilledRebuilds]

I'd rather play Games.... than tinker it to work through the issues ive read about on multiple visits..

Only a handful Want to tweak their systems that much.

[xg32]

10 minutes ago, porina said:

Running a 10600k in my TV gaming system now. Works great, unlike the 3700X I was building for it and now got rid of.

 

Now if you should or not depends on a whole ton of factors. Way I look at systems now, if you need the best, you get whatever is the best. If you're not after that, you only need to reach a good enough level. Spend the time gaming and not worrying about hardware choice.

aight i might not be a zen 2 fan but i have to ask why did u boot it, applaud the decisiveness of course.

[xg32]

17 minutes ago, Terminus_V said:

I was thinking about going back to Intel and moving into this platform...but PCIe 3 makes it a bit of a downer.

 

It will support rocket lake though...so I'm not really sure. I didn't like AMD's Ryzen 3000 series. Got a B550 motherboard with a 3600X and it feels like beta testing. Too many quirks and things I'd rather not deal with.

if u cant find a 5600x then it's the best choice

[Bobbysixjp]

25 minutes ago, Terminus_V said:

I was thinking about going back to Intel and moving into this platform...but PCIe 3 makes it a bit of a downer.

 

It will support rocket lake though...so I'm not really sure. I didn't like AMD's Ryzen 3000 series. Got a B550 motherboard with a 3600X and it feels like beta testing. Too many quirks and things I'd rather not deal with.

You will probably be GPU bottlenecked in most games anyway (especially at 1440p and above) so the chances are you will not see a big increase in performance going from a 3600x to a 10600K. 

[Terminus_V]

6 minutes ago, xg32 said:

aight i might not be a zen 2 fan but i have to ask why did u boot it, applaud the decisiveness of course.

I'm not him but I imagine it's because of the countless quirks and lack of polish on the platform, as with anything AMD.

 

I also had a 5700XT at launch and the drivers were a disaster.

[porina]

Just now, xg32 said:

aight i might not be a zen 2 fan but i have to ask why did u boot it, applaud the decisiveness of course.

I've owned Ryzen systems from Zen through to Zen 2 with varying degrees of problems, mostly eventually fixed with sufficient bios updates. The end for Zen 2 for me was running a 3700X in a B450 mobo which I now believe the mobo was supplying insufficient voltage for the CPU to be stable. +50mv offset helps significantly but does not eliminate random errors/crashes. Sold the CPU, still have the suspect mobo as it is too old for warranty. I believe the CPU is ok as I didn't have that many problems when it was in an older mobo I no longer have. I didn't fancy buying another AMD mobo, and since I won the 10600k in a competition I just ran with that. If I was buying with my own money I'd hold off to see what Rocket Lake does as I have enough older Intel systems to use as a placeholder otherwise. I just have a gap with many systems up to 6 cores, and 12+ cores. Would like 8 for higher end gaming system hence trying the 3700X.

 

I just want to game, not test systems now.

[Terminus_V]

4 minutes ago, Bobbysixjp said:

You will probably be GPU bottlenecked in most games anyway (especially at 1440p and above) so the chances are you will not see a big increase in performance going from a 3600x to a 10600K. 

I play at 1080p 144hz, with a 1080ti GPU.

[Bobbysixjp]

3 minutes ago, Terminus_V said:

I'm not him but I imagine it's because of the countless quirks and lack of polish on the platform, as with anything AMD.

 

I also had a 5700XT at launch and the drivers were a disaster.

I have never used an AMD CPU so cannot speak for that. However I did have a Nitro+ 5700 XT and I had not problems with that at all (mind you I did get it 6 months after release so maybe the driver issues were fixed by then). 

[Bobbysixjp]

1 minute ago, Terminus_V said:

I play at 1080p 144hz, with a 1080ti GPU.

Does this currently give you a CPU or GPU bottleneck? Like I mentioned if you have a GPU bottleneck at this resolution then upgrading your CPU is pretty pointless.