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Currently have a 4690k overclocked to 4.3 ghz, I'm thinking about upgrading to Ryzen within the next few weeks/month. Is the upgrade worth it? Or is this i5 still good enough for the games that are around now. I have a budget of around £300, maybe £400. I have a 1070 which is also overclocked and I feel the i5 does hold it back, I have had it for nearly two years now and is the only thing that hasn't been upgraded since building my PC.

 

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What are you using the pc for 

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Just now, DiscoDuck101 said:

Gaming and Media consumption.

I honestly don't think a CPU upgrade would be worthwhile for you atm

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Just now, Biggerboot said:

I would say you could stick to 4690k OC'd for a bit longer.  You may lose some performance on CSGO with Ryzen.

It's fine in everything but BF1, lots of stuttering and lost frames. But that game is a CPU hog which pins it at 100%.

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2 minutes ago, DiscoDuck101 said:

Maybe another year? It runs pretty good at overclocked speed. At stock it is awful.

I would wait a bit if you can. A Ryzen has about the same IPC as 4th gen intel chips, so you'll only see an improvement if you can use more cores. Maybe coffeelake or a Ryzen refresh will be a more compelling upgrade.

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2 minutes ago, DiscoDuck101 said:

It's fine in everything but BF1, lots of stuttering and lost frames. But that game is a CPU hog which pins it at 100%.

Yeah, it would be a trade-off to some extent.  If high frame rates in CSGO isn't a big deal you may be happier.

Personally I would see about getting an i7 for your board if that's cheaper.

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Just now, Biggerboot said:

Yeah, it would be a trade-off to some extent.

Personally I would see about getting an i7 for your board if that's cheaper.

I think I'm just going to wait for a while, save up some money, and go 'all out' on anything new that comes out within the next year/year 1/2.

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22 minutes ago, DiscoDuck101 said:

Maybe another year? It runs pretty good at overclocked speed. At stock it is awful.

Yeah I don't think it's worth upgrading ATM. Right now the only thing I would suggest as an upgrade would be a 4790k. Or you could wait until next year for covfefe lake and/or zen2

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