Balanced Upgrade Path

[PaulM]

Hi Everyone,

  I wanted to know if there are any other website besides pc-builds with a reasonably accurate bottleneck calculator. I want to upgrade my R5 2600 CPU, I have it paired with an RTX 2060.  The motherboard only supports up to Ryzen 3000.  It states that the R7 3700x bottlenecks the 2060 by 13-30% depending on the type of task. How accurate is this, also the site only has the 8 GB Super version and a 12 GB version of 2060 I used the 8 GB Super version and figured it's close enough. It seems like a larger bottleneck, even considering, than it should be. 

 

 

Thank You, 

[PDifolco]

28 minutes ago, PaulM said:

Hi Everyone,

  I wanted to know if there are any other website besides pc-builds with a reasonably accurate bottleneck calculator. I want to upgrade my R5 2600 CPU, I have it paired with an RTX 2060.  The motherboard only supports up to Ryzen 3000.  It states that the R7 3700x bottlenecks the 2060 by 13-30% depending on the type of task. How accurate is this, also the site only has the 8 GB Super version and a 12 GB version of 2060 I used the 8 GB Super version and figured it's close enough. It seems like a larger bottleneck, even considering, than it should be. 

 

 

Thank You, 

What board is this that can't support Ryzen 5000 ??

Don't overthink about vague "bottlenecks", it depends on games, settings, resolution

[PaulM]

The board is a b450m MSI Pro V-DH it only supports up to Ryzen 3000.  Also will just upgrading the cpu be reasonable enough if the 2060 can handle it. If the gain is not worth it with just the CPU i will wait 3 years or so and build a new one. Let me know what you might think. Thanks for the response.