1400 or 1600

[AMDPRO]

How much worse is the r5 1400 than the 1600 and if I pair the 1400 with better memory

[Armakar]

Just get the 1600

2 extra cores 4 extra threads, will last you longer

[SecretX]

1600 with "slower memory" > 1400 with "faster memory" in most scenarios. The difference between 2600MHz and 3200Mhz is about 5~6%, not worth when comparing a Ryzen 5 1400 vs Ryzen 5 1600, which is a LOT more than just 6%.

[Princess Luna]

Will you keep your GTX 980? Because if so, considering you're after gaming only, it won't matter which CPU you go for.

[AMDPRO]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

Will you keep your GTX 980? Because if so, considering you're after gaming only, it won't matter which CPU you go for.

Yes, I will keep my 980 although I may upgrade in the future

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, AMDPRO said:

Yes, I will keep my 980 although I may upgrade in the future

I'd say go for the Ryzen 5 1400 with the right memory which does matter a lot more than the inexperience user above said and then consider a Ryzen+ (the refresh coming next year which will be for the same motherboard) if you ever feel the need for more CPU horse power depending on your GPU upgrade ;]~

[EPPHO]

Depends on what you do

[Froody129]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

I'd say go for the Ryzen 5 1400 with the right memory which does matter a lot more than the unexperience used above said and then consider a Ryzen+ (the refresh coming next year which will be for the same motherboard) if you ever feel the need for more CPU horse power depending on your GPU upgrade ;]~

This is a good suggestion but if you’re aiming at Ryzen+ I would just go for 1200 and 8gb of fast RAM. Then go high core count next year and by then RAM prices will hopefully have fallen 

[Princess Luna]

Just now, Froody129 said:

This is a good suggestion but if you’re aiming at Ryzen+ I would just go for 1200 and 8gb of fast RAM. Then go high core count next year and by then RAM prices will hopefully have fallen 

Actually excellent idea, the Ryzen 3 1200 does see the GTX 980 full potential in almost every case!

 

This way OP can invest in the right Asus board and the right 3000mhz/3200mhz memory and have all ready for Ryzen+ next year when he will upgrade to a beefier GPU.

 

Cheers!

[cj09beira]

4 minutes ago, Froody129 said:

This is a good suggestion but if you’re aiming at Ryzen+ I would just go for 1200 and 8gb of fast RAM. Then go high core count next year and by then RAM prices will hopefully have fallen 

agreed but buy ram now prices will continue to rise

[cj09beira]

my advise, if you can wait: get yourself some good 3200 cl14 ram (best way to get b-die memory) because the price will rise, and buy ryzen+ when it launches, motherboard is a bit of a unknown because there probably be some new boards but probably not going to ave any major improvements, although i can see more pcie lanes coming, so if you want you could take advantage of the sales right now and save some money that way,

you could buy a low end ryzen chip and sell it then but you would be losing money that way,

i am advising you to get ryzen + because it is going to have better clocks which should mean around 10% better perf