Sell my 6700K for a 1600X?

[GrandNebSmada]

I've been thinking about selling my 6700K for like $275 and my motherboard for about $60 so that I can buy a R5 1600X and motherboard to go with it.

The reason for this is that while I do play some games, its barely ever when I do, so giving up the little bit of gaming performance is no big deal. Also I do a lot of video editing and rendering, where more cores would benefit.

 

Another thing I've been considering is buying more RAM as video editing and especially After Effects benefit from this greatly. However ram prices continue to skyrocket (16Gb of DDR4 3000MHz will cost me about $170 alone right now and buying an 8Gb stick isn't worth it as the price doesn't scale very well)

 

What would be the best choice for my situation? Keeping in mind gaming performance is not really a concern at all.

[Space Reptile]

expect same Performance in games ,

but maybe better Minimums and better Multi thread Performance (aka watch a 1080p60 vid/stream w/o Impact on game Performance)

[rn8686]

Performance in games wont be that much worse, it will defiantly help with render times. I would upgrade to that, try to get the 1700 if you can. 

[Mooshi]

I wouldn't unless the 6700k isn't cutting it.

[RadiatingLight]

1 hour ago, Mooshi said:

I wouldn't unless the 6700k isn't cutting it.

+1

 

Unless your current hardware can no longer do what you want it to do, then don't upgrade.

 

[Ordinarily_Greater]

I think you want to upgrade if your old system is not "obeying" things what you want like lag streaming, slow boot times

[Emberstone]

Honestly I wouldn't get rid of a 6700K for a 1600X unless you're really suffering.

 

If you're planning on swapping to Ryzen for better performance in creative tasks, I would go for R7 or better (I.E. wait for ThreadRipper if you really wanna go balls to the wall) considering where your current rig is at.