CPU-Upgrade

[Cromox]

Budget (including currency): around 800€, more would be possible if neccessary

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly used for gaming

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Old parts: i5-3570K at 4.3GHz, Nvidia GTX 1070(which i want to keep for now on), Corsair Vengeance 4x4GB DDR3, Asus P8Z77-M mainboard, i use a Crucial MX500 250GB SSD for Windows and a WD Blue 1TB HDD

 

For my upgrade i think the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X would be my option, but it's not the must have, if you guys have better options around the same pricing

 

Thank you in Advance :)

[Cromox]

Thank you for your answer. For RAM, what speed should I look for? or how much would be the sweet spot?

 

[KnightSirius]

19 minutes ago, Cromox said:

Thank you for your answer. For RAM, what speed should I look for? or how much would be the sweet spot?

 

3600MHz in the C16 to C18 range is the sweet spot, higher frequency than this is wasted and lower leaves some performance on the table. Should be easily achievable within budget at 16GB-32GB (depending on your needs), although I don't know what EU prices are like.

[Cromox]

So I thought of this build:

 

AMD Ryzen 5 5600x, Asus TUF-Gaming X570-Plus, Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB 3600Mhz C18, Noctua NH D15, 256GB M.2ssd for windows, together with my Corsair RM 850x, and the GTX1070.

 

That could be an nice gaming rig, right?

[KnightSirius]

15 hours ago, Cromox said:

So I thought of this build:

 

AMD Ryzen 5 5600x, Asus TUF-Gaming X570-Plus, Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB 3600Mhz C18, Noctua NH D15, 256GB M.2ssd for windows, together with my Corsair RM 850x, and the GTX1070.

 

That could be an nice gaming rig, right?

Looks great! I've built a PC for a family member with that motherboard and it was quite good, also well rated overall.
My only suggestion is look further into M.2 Drives, you should be able to get a 500-1TB drive for a reasonable price and it's easier to do now than later. 256 is pretty small these days especially if you want to load a few often-played games on it.

The Corsair MP510 series is very high performing and cost effective; the same goes for Sabrent Rocket drives which also have PCIe 4.0 variants if you want to go that route.

[p51mustang23]

Why x570 over B550?  If the price was the same, I would go X570, but it adds basically no features for most users.  

[Cromox]

I'm not experienced with motherboards, can you tell me the difference between them two?

[KnightSirius]

On 1/3/2021 at 5:10 AM, Cromox said:

I'm not experienced with motherboards, can you tell me the difference between them two?

Here is a good breakdown of what the differences are (also a video version in the article) but the main difference is X570 supports PCIe 4.0 whilst B550 does not. It may also have a better VRM configuration which is useful for overclocking but that depends on the manufacturer, it also tends to have a few more USB ports and such which is generally useful.

Most people here will rightfully tell you, that unless you know you need PCIe 4.0 you shouldn't bother with X570 and save the money.

However, in my opinion I'd go X570 as long as you're not paying an extravagant amount more over a similar B550 board. PCIe 4.0 might not be the most useful thing right now but GPUs will eventually leverage that extra bandwidth and high speed SSDs like those used in the PS5 are certainly going to become more consistently utilised in game development in the future so you'd be allowing yourself the opportunity to upgrade your system in the next 3-6 years to take advantage of that if you wanted it.

I stick with my PC for around 7 years at a time, so to me the extra cost now is worth it for use in the future but it's really up to you to determine whether it is worth it.