Is it worth the upgrade?

[Guest]

Hello everyone,

Since the release of the ryzen 3 1200, is it worth spending the extra $50 on getting the ryzen 5 1400. They both have identical clockspeeds and turbo clock frequencies. The only difference between the ryzen 3 1200 and the ryzen 5 1400 is that the 1400 has SMT enabled and the 1200 has SMT disabled. In conclusion, is spending the additional $50 for the ryzen 5 1400 worth it?

[Princess Luna]

Depends what you'll be your user case, along side the other components you plan on acquiring.

[AndreLebrao]

Just now, TheBeastPC said:

Hello everyone,

Since the release of the ryzen 3 1200, is it worth spending the extra $50 on getting the ryzen 5 1400. They both have identical clockspeeds and turbo clock frequencies. The only difference between the ryzen 3 1200 and the ryzen 5 1400 is that the 1400 has SMT enabled and the 1200 has SMT disabled. In conclusion, is spending the additional $50 for the ryzen 5 1400 worth it?

Check out Hardware Unboxed review on the r3s, I agree with his point of view

Btw, Imo this should be asked on the CPU and mobo subforum,

[CostcoSamples]

For a budget build, every dollar must be carefully weighed.  Yes, SMT is helpful and worth the money, but if it means having a smaller SSD, lower tier GPU, etc, perhaps the answer is no. Those trade-offs must be considered.  Try a couple of builds on pcpartpicker and see which one you like best.

 

I always prefer to put a little more $$ into the CPU and motherboard because those parts are very expensive to upgrade and don't require upgrade as often.

 

[Dr. KEK]

considering AMD users have been writing off Intel's hyperthreading for YEARS, go ahead and get the one with SMT disabled

[ravenshrike]

IMO the 5 Ryzen processors to buy are the 1200, 1600, 1600X, 1700, and 1800X. The non-X parts because those are the best price/perf points in Ryzen. The two X parts because they have the greatest probability of 4Ghz overclock at at sensible voltage and would theoretically last longer than the non-X parts.