Brother wants to rebuild his computer need some advice on CPU at price

[Stomy]

So my brother's computer is getting pretty long in the teeth and im working on a plan for a new one for him. He has a fine motherboard with an X470 MSI Gaming Plus max so looking at either 5600 or 5600x at $179 &199 respectively. Usually the 5600 non X is the smarter price choice but with such a small difference in price is the X worth it for only $20 more? the 5700x is another $50 so didnt figure it was worth it. (likely going with a 3070 Graphics card for bottlenecking questions.)

[Ryuikko]

I think that's how the prices usually are for them. It's pretty much the same cpu so you'd only be paying for the x. I'd get the non x

[Dutch_Master]

Mind, the 5700 is actually a massive improvement over the 5600. It's 8 vs 6 cores (and double the threads) so the 5700 is much more powerful. But you pay for it, true.

[Brooksie359]

The difference in performance is very minimal between the 5600 and 5600x. Just buy the cheaper one tbh. 

[Fasauceome]

8 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

Mind, the 5700 is actually a massive improvement over the 5600. It's 8 vs 6 cores (and double the threads) so the 5700 is much more powerful. But you pay for it, true.

In terms of real world performance I wouldn't call it a "massive difference" since both CPUs are on the same architecture and have large amounts of cache. 

[Quickstrike]

25 minutes ago, Stomy said:

So my brother's computer is getting pretty long in the teeth and im working on a plan for a new one for him. He has a fine motherboard with an X470 MSI Gaming Plus max so looking at either 5600 or 5600x at $179 &199 respectively. Usually the 5600 non X is the smarter price choice but with such a small difference in price is the X worth it for only $20 more? the 5700x is another $50 so didnt figure it was worth it. (likely going with a 3070 Graphics card for bottlenecking questions.)

Check if you can find a 5600g... It was on sale and chapeer than the non x two weeks ago.

[Stomy]

4 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

Check if you can find a 5600g... It was on sale and chapeer than the non x two weeks ago.

Its like 3$ cheaper

[Quickstrike]

2 minutes ago, Stomy said:

Its like 3$ cheaper

And slightly faster that a 5600 non x. Plus if you ever have a dead GPU, you'll still have a workable computer.

[Ryuikko]

7 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

Check if you can find a 5600g... It was on sale and chapeer than the non x two weeks ago.

It's usually cheaper than the 5600 because it's a worse cpu 

[Quickstrike]

3 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

And slightly faster that a 5600 non x. Plus if you ever have a dead GPU, you'll still have a workable computer.

Nevermind that. Get the Non x, The 5600g is better on paper but not in real life

 

[Stomy]

Sounds like the Non X is the way to go thanks for the info guys!

[Brooksie359]

14 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

In terms of real world performance I wouldn't call it a "massive difference" since both CPUs are on the same architecture and have large amounts of cache. 

Yeah it's really dependent on what you are doing with your cpu that matters when comparing 6 vs 8 core cpus. If you are doing productive work that can actually leverage 8 cores then yeah 8 vs 6 is a significant difference. For gaming I find the difference in performance as significant.