Worth the upgrade?

[Colin Donoghue]

Right now I have the fx 8300 with 16gbs 2400 ddr3 ram and a 980 kingpin and I was wondering if it was worth my time to buy a ryzen 3 processor. How much would it bottleneck my 980 if all, and should I get ryzen 3 now and upgrade to ryzen 7 later or wait till I have enough for ryzen 7 right off the bat

 

Thanks for your help in advance 

 

 

[Colin Donoghue]

basically is it worth upgrading to a ryzen 3 from a fx 8300 with the intentions of upgrading 

[Dalitten]

Depends. Does the 8300 bottleneck now? Do you get full potential and usage from your 980. 

There is limited information about Ryzen 3 out right now, but from what I've seen so far I think you'll be fine with a R3 1300x.

But the 980 is the "max" it can handle, so if you want to upgrade your GPU at some point, you need a new CPU also. 

I would recommend to wait until you've got enough for a R5 1600. That's gonna last a while. 

[Colin Donoghue]

Just now, Dalitten said:

Depends. Does the 8300 bottleneck now? Do you get full potential and usage from your 980. 

There is limited information about Ryzen 3 out right now, but from what I've seen so far I think you'll be fine with a R3 1300x.

But the 980 is the "max" it can handle, so if you want to upgrade your GPU at some point, you need a new CPU also. 

I would recommend to wait until you've got enough for a R5 1600. That's gonna last a while. 

I don't think that the 980 is bottlenecked by the fx 8300 by much and if I was going to buy ryzen 3 I would get the 1200 instead of the 1300x because I have the h110iv2 aio and was going to overclock the 1200 to 1300x speeds

[Dalitten]

1 minute ago, Colin Donoghue said:

I don't think that the 980 is bottlenecked by the fx 8300 by much and if I was going to buy ryzen 3 I would get the 1200 instead of the 1300x because I have the h110iv2 aio and was going to overclock the 1200 to 1300x speeds

A B350 motherboard and a Ryzen 1200 would be a nice fit for a 980, but I would be certain that you need it first.

Download MSI Afterburner and turn on On Screen Display. This way you can see GPU and CPU usage. A bottleneck can be spotted if the GPU is not seing 99% usage at all times.(Some drops happen). Some games are more CPU bound than others. GTA/Battlegrounds is a good test. Or any other game that you have.

[Jonathan Lemmens]

41 minutes ago, Colin Donoghue said:

Right now I have the fx 8300 with 16gbs 2400 ddr3 ram and a 980 kingpin and I was wondering if it was worth my time to buy a ryzen 3 processor. How much would it bottleneck my 980 if all, and should I get ryzen 3 now and upgrade to ryzen 7 later or wait till I have enough for ryzen 7 right off the bat

 

Thanks for your help in advance 

 

 

the R3 1300X performs only marginally better in games than the FX8370 (practically the same as a FX8300) If you don't need the AM4 features now, I would advise to wait until you can buy an R7 straight away. 

 

It shows the FX8370 in the slides too: