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Gurky
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Budget (including currency): Low as possible due to not planning on a CPU upgrade yet, but I do value well value over price. 

Country: UK

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

Other details: This will replace an I5 8600k and be paired with a RX 7800 XT OC. I just made the GPU purchase and I knew I'd bottleneck but worse than I expected (CS2 stutters) Thinking of giving AMD a go since I have for GPU. I've attached the 6 I'm thinking mostly at Scan.co.uk due to PayPal Credit being an option. I'd be happy to drop to the Ryzen 5 options too. but wanted to know what people thought would be a good "Value" match. I'm going AM4 due to having 32GB of DDR4 Ram I want to keep using at 3200Mhz. I will need a board and Cooler too! But I'm a little more clued up on Mobo and cooling just not CPU so much. 

 

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Ow okay then....

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I5 14600kf if you can buy, or i5 13400f would be best.

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Are you budget limited?

If not, consider getting "the right one" at once instead of being able to upgrade later. I got a 5600x (which is great for my use case) but now I can't really see myself paying full price for an upgrade to a 5800x3d for a 20% ish performance increase in games. 

Should probably just have paid the price premium in the first place. 

mITX is awesome! I regret nothing (apart from when picking parts or have to do maintainance *cough*cough*)

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The Ryzen 5700X3D and 5500X3D come out soon. I'd wait for them.

 

The 8600K is like a Ryzen 5 3500X, the 8700K being comparable to a Ryzen 3600.

Thus, I'd get at least a 5700X as an upgrade.

 

To be blunt, a 5600/5600X/5700X/5800X would bottleneck the 7800XT IF you're using 1080p.

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AMD

 

Board

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/msi-mag-b550-tomahawk-amd-b550-s-am4-ddr4-sata3-pcie-40-dual-m2-crossfire-25gbe-usb-32-gen2-atx 

 

CPU

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-ryzen-5-5600-am4-zen-3-6-core-12-thread-35ghz-44ghz-turbo-35mb-cache-pcie-40-65w-cpu 

 

or ...

 

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-ryzen-7-5700x-am4-zen-3-8-core-16-thread-34ghz-46ghz-turbo-36mb-cache-pcie-40-65w-cpu

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24 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

The Ryzen 5700X3D and 5500X3D come out soon. I'd wait for them.

 

The 8600K is like a Ryzen 5 3500X, the 8700K being comparable to a Ryzen 3600.

Thus, I'd get at least a 5700X as an upgrade.

 

To be blunt, a 5600/5600X/5700X/5800X would bottleneck the 7800XT IF you're using 1080p.

Ooo I missed saying 1440P!

Ow okay then....

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35 minutes ago, Chapunna said:

I5 14600kf if you can buy, or i5 13400f would be best.

Could you elaborate more? Why over AMD?

Ow okay then....

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