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Ryzen 5 1600 or Ryzen 7 1700

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I'm planning on an upgrade to Ryzen for a PC that will last around 5 years. Although the 1600 is cheaper and will be fine for current gen games, would the 1700 be worth the extra cash for the extra cores/threads especially in future games (regardless of the AM4 platform's upgradability)?

 

The 1600 is $189.99 and the  1700 is $269.99 at Microcenter.

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2 minutes ago, Aethyris said:

I'm planning on an upgrade to Ryzen for a PC that will last around 5 years. Although the 1600 is cheaper and will be fine for current gen games, would the 1700 be worth the extra cash for the extra cores/threads especially in future games (regardless of the AM4 platform's upgradability)?

 

The 1600 is $189.99 and the  1700 is $269.99 at Microcenter.

For games? No. I seriously doubt we will see a major swing in the next five years where games are best with more than 6C/12T.

 

If you do any streaming, video editing or other multi threaded workloads then you could consider it. 

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Thanks for the quick replies, guess I'll be going with a 1600!

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well amds new bottom of the line is a quad core so I think quad cores are the new duel cores, 6 cores should become the new quad core then 

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