2600 to 5600x upgrade dilemma

[Anthony Dupuis]

I currently have a R5 2600 clocked to 4.1ghz on a B450m steel legend and 16gb of 3200mhz ram. I also have an rtx 2060 super as my GPU. I mostly play fortnite at low settings to try and reach the 240 fps that my monitor manages to push out.

 

I am unfortunately not hitting that target consistently when in-game. I obviously know the culprit, my cpu. I also notice a huge spike in input delay while streaming even with the Nvenc encoder making wonders. I have my eyes on the r5 5600x because of its superb single core performance but I am not sure if it’s the right time to upgrade. This is probably the last generation of supported cpu’s on my motherboard so I don’t know if I should wait for next gen and upgrade my motherboard at the same time...

 

I just wanted to get your guy’s opinion on my situation and get some recommendations if any cross your minds.

 

Thanks

Anthony

[Nena Trinity]

I would seriusly consider going up in core-count if you are gonna do this anyhow... 8-cores should be enough! ;D

[Moonzy]

if you think the price is worth it, go for it

 

you can try assigning cores to different tasks like core 0-3 on fortnite while obs gets 4 and 5, this may improve your overall experience

[Anthony Dupuis]

1 minute ago, Nena Trinity said:

I would seriusly consider going up in core-count if you are gonna do this anyhow... 8-cores should be enough! ;D

I would agree with you but except for some video editing and some Blender, cores aren’t that big of a concern for me but I see what you mean

[Anthony Dupuis]

Just now, Moonzy said:

if you think the price is worth it, go for it

 

you can try assigning cores to different tasks like core 0-3 on fortnite while obs gets 4 and 5, this may improve your overall experience

I actually never thought that was possible

 

and in terms of price I see a 5600x that’s selling for 430 canadian dollars which I think is a pretty good deal

[Nena Trinity]

Just now, Anthony Dupuis said:

I would agree with you but except for some video editing and some Blender, cores aren’t that big of a concern for me but I see what you mean

Actually you could get the 5600X and use the extra from selling the CPU and RAM and get a faster kit of RAM along side it, maybe a 3600MHz kit with low latency? Or join team dual-rank and get 2x16GB of same speed? I personally did that. ^w^

[Anthony Dupuis]

1 minute ago, Nena Trinity said:

Actually you could get the 5600X and use the extra from selling the CPU and RAM and get a faster kit of RAM along side it, maybe a 3600MHz kit with low latency? Or join team dual-rank and get 2x16GB of same speed? I personally did that. ^w^

Idk if I want to change my memory because it has been working fine and with all the price fluctuations of the pandemic I am not sure if I’ll get a good deal on them...

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Nena Trinity said:

Or join team dual-rank and get 2x16GB of same speed?

there are 16Gb memory chips now, so 16GB ram sticks are mostly single rank from my understanding, old RAM may be dual rank still

32GB are dual rank.

 

but going dual rank may sacrifice some frequency, depending on your CPU's capabilities

so you may lose performance there

 

3 minutes ago, Anthony Dupuis said:

I actually never thought that was possible

assign affinity in task manager, it's simple and i do it often

 

3 minutes ago, Anthony Dupuis said:

and in terms of price I see a 5600x that’s selling for 430 canadian dollars which I think is a pretty good deal

if you're sure that you're limited by your CPU, go for it

 

but i should say that if your game is running around 240fps, going any higher would be kind of pointless, but i understand the need for higher fps because im the same

[Nena Trinity]

4 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

there are 16Gb memory chips now, so 16GB ram sticks are mostly single rank from my understanding, old RAM may be dual rank still

32GB are dual rank.

 

but going dual rank may sacrifice some frequency, depending on your CPU's capabilities

so you may lose performance there

If OPs B450M Steel Legend = my Pro4 then the motherboard prefers 2x16GB over 4x8GB trust me I know the damn 1 and 3 slot will barely go to 3200MHz on SK Hynix and not even reach 3000MHz with Samsung die so my advice is still 2x16GB now if OP need more RAM in the future... UwU

[Anthony Dupuis]

1 hour ago, Moonzy said:

there are 16Gb memory chips now, so 16GB ram sticks are mostly single rank from my understanding, old RAM may be dual rank still

32GB are dual rank.

 

but going dual rank may sacrifice some frequency, depending on your CPU's capabilities

so you may lose performance there

 

assign affinity in task manager, it's simple and i do it often

 

if you're sure that you're limited by your CPU, go for it

 

but i should say that if your game is running around 240fps, going any higher would be kind of pointless, but i understand the need for higher fps because im the same

I am not looking for higher than 240 fps but I just want to get the most out of my 240hz monitor... so yeah I think I am pretty convinced at buying the 5600x... Do you think selling my 2600 is still worth it?

[Moonzy]

13 minutes ago, Anthony Dupuis said:

I am not looking for higher than 240 fps but I just want to get the most out of my 240hz monitor... so yeah I think I am pretty convinced at buying the 5600x... Do you think selling my 2600 is still worth it?

i mean, it's better than having it around doing nothing amirite?

 

just sell it, if you are able to

but remember to update your bios before you do, because 400 chipset needs bios update to support 5000 series, and it's a one way update

meaning it wont support 2000 series after the update afaik

 

do have spare cash in hand ready for a board swap in case the bios update goes south