Upgrading

[DaveKerk]

Hi all,

I am looking to upgrade my current, poorly planned build. As of now I have an AMD FX-8350 and 3 GTX 980 K|NGP|N editions. I am planning on keeping the graphics cards. I edit videos, do some graphic design, code in many different languages, and of course game. I am wondering what CPU would be best for me. I have been looking at the 7700k, although the lack of PCIE lanes concerns me. Which then brought me to the 6800k. But then I looked into RYZEN. Kinda lost at this point, ideally I am going to keep all 3 graphics cards. Any help would be appreciated.

-Dave

[Legolessed]

6 minutes ago, DaveKerk said:

Hi all,

I am looking to upgrade my current, poorly planned build. As of now I have an AMD FX-8350 and 3 GTX 980 K|NGP|N editions. I am planning on keeping the graphics cards. I edit videos, do some graphic design, code in many different languages, and of course game. I am wondering what CPU would be best for me. I have been looking at the 7700k, although the lack of PCIE lanes concerns me. Which then brought me to the 6800k. But then I looked into RYZEN. Kinda lost at this point, ideally I am going to keep all 3 graphics cards. Any help would be appreciated.

-Dave

It depends on your budget. For gaming the 7700k does pull ahead of ryzen due to clock speed but for video editing and other tasks I have seen ryzen pull ahead very significantly. In Linus's most recent video, the 7700k got beat by the 1800x, 1700x, 1700, and 1600. That was in some tasks. If you are conserved with gaming, go with the 7700k, but for video editing and graphic design, ryzen may work really well for you. Anything you buy will outperform your fx 8350

[DaveKerk]

1 minute ago, Legolessed said:

It depends on your budget. For gaming the 7700k does pull ahead of ryzen due to clock speed but for video editing and other tasks I have seen ryzen pull ahead very significantly. In Linus's most recent video, the 7700k got beat by the 1800x, 1700x, 1700, and 1600. That was in some tasks. If you are conserved with gaming, go with the 7700k, but for video editing and graphic design, ryzen may work really well for you.

I'm fairly content with waiting so budget isn't a huge issue. What about the 6800k? With the 6 cores and small(ish) price increase I think it might be a good consideration along with RYZEN.

[Legolessed]

14 minutes ago, DaveKerk said:

I'm fairly content with waiting so budget isn't a huge issue. What about the 6800k? With the 6 cores and small(ish) price increase I think it might be a good consideration along with RYZEN.

They are all good cpu's here is a comparison between the two in your workflow

 

[Cracklingice]

Probably better waiting until Skylake-x comes out if you want to go HEDT (for upgrade ability).  There's also rumor that AMD has a high end desktop platform in the works.  I'm not sure how Ryzen (x370) will do with support for more than 2 graphics devices.  I think it's really intended for 2 way.  I'm not sure how many new boards will come out with support for 3 and 4 way SLI as AMD has canned support for it with pascal and probably the newer generations as well.  Though I don't think SLI would be needed for hardware accelerated stuff.