What an upgrade

[Ginga_NZ]

So I recently got myself an upgrade from a r5 1500 on a b350 motherboard, when I originally purchased the this setup I wasn't able to find ram that was on the qvl and it registered as 16gb but only 8gb was available.

 

So the new parts I got was a 11400f, Asus prime b560 and 16gb @ 3200mhz.

 

And I should also mention the setup includes a 5700xt

 

So my initial test using cinebench I was shocked to see the 11400f hit 100⁰c in only a few seconds, but scored almost triple what my results for the r5 were. I then went to test some games, bannerlord 2 was the first to be tested. On medium settings with 1000 units the r5 struggled, by struggled I mean barely made 20fps and more frequently was in the single digits. With the new set up on the highest settings I was seeing fps well above 60, and at the start of the battle with only my army it was getting over 100. The second game I tested was far cry 5, on ultra with the r5 I got an average of 56 during the benchmark, i5 126. GTA v r5 was like 63, i5 was like 160+.

 

When I was making the purchase I was honestly thinking that I'd probably see between 20-40% uplift in fps, what I got is more than double. I'm guessing a lot of this has to do with the unsupported ram, and now actually getting the xmp to work.

 

As a little extra, I also replaced the thermal paste on the stock Intel cooler and it did make quite a difference, the temp didn't hit max and start throttling for over thirty seconds and increased the cinebench score by something like 500 points. I do intend to upgrade the cooler but I want to check whether I can find an old AIO I got before ryzen released and was unable to use due to the mounting changing. I'd love nothing more than to be able to stick the and stock cooler on it.

 

So hope you enjoy me sharing this. Please share some of your biggest performance jumps after an upgrade.

[Surestgarlic2]

upgraded from a rock to a laptop I finally get 1080p display

[Mooshi]

You couldn't swing an extra $30 for a better cooler?

[Chris Pratt]

Hardly surprising. First gen Ryzen was not great to begin with, and you jumped two generations, added 2c/4t, and higher boost clocks to boot. It's basically double the single core and multicore perf. Of course, you didn't have to switch to Intel for that. Just jumping up to a 3600 on the AMD side would've achieved the same. If you think that was impressive, a 5600X would have blown your mind.

 

As far as my experience, I just saw the same thing going from a 3700X to a 5900X. More than doubled my multicore performance, especially after I tweaked it. The jump in single core was less impressive but still amounted to a 20-25% boost.

 

 

[Ginga_NZ]

19 hours ago, Mooshi said:

You couldn't swing an extra $30 for a better cooler?

So I'm in NZ I spent a total of around 550 for the CPU, mobo and ram. I'm looking at coolers but am still wanting to see if I can find the old AIO.

 

For context a hyper 212 is around $80

[Ginga_NZ]

19 hours ago, Chris Pratt said:

Hardly surprising. First gen Ryzen was not great to begin with, and you jumped two generations, added 2c/4t, and higher boost clocks to boot. It's basically double the single core and multicore perf. Of course, you didn't have to switch to Intel for that. Just jumping up to a 3600 on the AMD side would've achieved the same. If you think that was impressive, a 5600X would have blown your mind.

 

As far as my experience, I just saw the same thing going from a 3700X to a 5900X. More than doubled my multicore performance, especially after I tweaked it. The jump in single core was less impressive but still amounted to a 20-25% boost.

 

 

Both the r5 1500 and the i5 11400f are 6c 12t.

 

I was considering the 5600 but the cou alone was the same price as what I spent on all the parts. I wasn't sure I would have gained an extra 50% going from the i5 to the 5600

[Mooshi]

5 hours ago, Ginga_NZ said:

So I'm in NZ I spent a total of around 550 for the CPU, mobo and ram. I'm looking at coolers but am still wanting to see if I can find the old AIO.

 

For context a hyper 212 is around $80

Yikes.

 

$80NZD is about $55 USD which can get a much nicer cooler than a Hyper 212. Is Cryorig in your area? They make some decent coolers. Scythe also has good air coolers as well.

[Ginga_NZ]

2 hours ago, comander said:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-5-1500x

 

AMD says the 1500 is 4C/8T. 

 

The 1600 would have been the slowest part I'd consider from AMD back in the day (15% higher price for 50% more cores, and if run at 4GHz it would've been a decent workhorse) https://www.gamersnexus.net/news-pc/2839-amd-ryzen-r5-1400-1500x-1600-1600x-release-dates

 

 

With that said, the 11400 has 50% more cores, 20% better clock speeds and 20% better IPC so a bit over 2x the MT performance. Performance on a 3600x from 2 years ago is similar, though the 11400 does have a modest edge. 

Oh you're right there, sorry, I must have remembered wrong. I had the 1600 then. 

[Ginga_NZ]

2 hours ago, Mooshi said:

Yikes.

 

$80NZD is about $55 USD which can get a much nicer cooler than a Hyper 212. Is Cryorig in your area? They make some decent coolers. Scythe also has good air coolers as well.

https://pricespy.co.nz/category.php?k=369&sort=popularity

 

This is a good site in NZ if you wish to sate your curiosity. 

I'd settled on this https://pricespy.co.nz/product.php?p=4545617 but then remembered the aio I couldn't use.

 

Any recommendations would be welcome so if I cannot find the aio.