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Upgrading my CPU

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Current Build: Ryzen 5 2600X, MSI Ventus RTX 2070, 32GB RAM

 

Looking to upgrade my CPU to a Ryzen 7 3700X. Do you think it would be worth upgrading to? With Mass Effect: Legendary Edition releasing next week, the recommended system requirements claims you should have a R7 3700X or equivalent.

 

I am not upgrading for that game alone, but rather with anticipation for more CPU demanding games in the future. Upgrading my GPU is quite unlikely for the next 2 to 3 years at best.

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Is it worth upgrading? Yes.

The 2000 series Ryzen chips aren't really that good at gaming. Yeah they can hold 60 fps, but not much more above that.

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If you do not hit 95+% usage on GPU, and one of CPU cores is at 95+%, then yes your CPU is a bottleneck and should be upgraded.

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1 minute ago, Smoot_McBaggins said:

the recommended system requirements claims you should have a R7 3700X or equivalent.

Buy the game, play it, if you don't like how it runs, do the upgrade. Don't follow recommended specs, they don't mean anything. And don't upgrade just because someone told you to, opinions are subjective, do what you feel is necessary.

5 minutes ago, Smoot_McBaggins said:

Looking to upgrade my CPU to a Ryzen 7 3700X. Do you think it would be worth upgrading to?

Simple answer, no. If you feel the need to upgrade after buying the game and playing it, get a 5600X. The 5600X costs just as much as a 3700X right now, and it's up to ~20% faster.

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6 minutes ago, DobertRownySr said:

Is it worth upgrading? Yes.

The 2000 series Ryzen chips aren't really that good at gaming. Yeah they can hold 60 fps, but not much more above that.

What?

 

This is just false. Sure they are worse but they in no means struggle to go beyond 60fps. They can pretty much go 100fps+ in almost every game.

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3 minutes ago, jaslion said:

What?

 

This is just false. Sure they are worse but they in no means struggle to go beyond 60fps. They can pretty much go 100fps+ in almost every game.

You're thinking of Zen 2, aka Ryzen 3000.

I'm sorry, but the 2000 series sucks for gaming, if you're aiming for high refresh rates that is.

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4 minutes ago, DobertRownySr said:

You're thinking of Zen 2, aka Ryzen 3000.

I'm sorry, but the 2000 series sucks for gaming, if you're aiming for high refresh rates that is.

No? I'm thinking of the 2000 series and it really does not suck for gaming. Sure it's older now but 100fps+ is still easy for it to do.

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