NEW CPU

[BADFPSNOOBOHNO10FPS]

Hello. I am an average 12 year old kid saving up money to buy a new processor. Right now I am in a bit of a pickle as I am stuck with a horrible processor and an ok graphics card. I have the 1050ti. With the prices of the processor, I can either buy the ryzen 3 in 4 months, the ryzen 5 1400 in 7 months and 1600 in a year. I want to know which one is worth what and I can't really play much good games like pubg with my processor. (Amd a12) My pubg fps rates are always low and frequeuntly drop down to 25. Heck, I sometimes play the whole round at 25 fps. Just let me know which one is worth my time.

[emosun]

what exact cpu are you using now?

[BADFPSNOOBOHNO10FPS]

a12-9800

[TheDooz]

hmm quite the pickle indeed.  My gut says 1400 or 1600.  Personally I play pubg on a 4c/8t xeon at 3.5ghz and I usually stay above 60fps with dips into the 40s on occastion, usually in the first game when textures are being loaded, do note that I use a 1080ti but Im 99% sure its my cpu that causes the dips.  however, a 1600 would last you for quite some time.  I think pubg is considerably multi threaded so Id skip the r3.

[ProximaOfZeal]

Since, as I understand, you're not buying the CPU right now, but rather in few months time once you save up a bit, by then Zen+ based Ryzen 2x00s will be out. For now just keep on saving and do the research on NEW CPU after a few months.

 

Note that pubg is notorious for bad optimization on multiple levels, therefore whatever kind of upgrade you'll do, noone can guarantee that pubg specifically will run smoothly... 

[asand1]

Complete running i7 2600 system can be had for $200usd.

[Sat1600]

You could drop your 1050ti right into this system:

 

https://m.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Optiplex-9020-Tower-PC-Intel-Core-i5-4570-3-20GHz-4GB-DDR3-RAM-250GB-HDD-/132456371316

 

You might even be able to get a few bucks for your current rig

[asand1]

8 minutes ago, Sat1600 said:

You could drop your 1050ti right into this system:

 

https://m.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Optiplex-9020-Tower-PC-Intel-Core-i5-4570-3-20GHz-4GB-DDR3-RAM-250GB-HDD-/132456371316

 

You might even be able to get a few bucks for your current rig

I was thinking the same, but an Optiplex 790 with i7-2600.

[ProximaOfZeal]

48 minutes ago, asand1 said:

Complete running i7 2600 system can be had for $200usd.

 

20 minutes ago, Sat1600 said:

You could drop your 1050ti right into this system:

You guys are aware that his APU is an AM4 CPU and he doesn't need to buy a whole system to replace it with a Ryzen, right? The only issue is that since he ended up with such a budget build, it might be an A320 chipset board and noone knows at this points whether Zen+ cpus will be supported on those (bios updates and such). But he can still slap a Ryzen in it as it is.

 

It truly puzzles me how did he end up with that APU given that it's similarly priced to a Ryzen 3 1200.

[asand1]

14 minutes ago, ProximaOfZeal said:

 

You guys are aware that his APU is an AM4 CPU and he doesn't need to buy a whole system to replace it with a Ryzen, right? The only issue is that since he ended up with such a budget build, it might be an A320 chipset board and noone knows at this points whether Zen+ cpus will be supported on those (bios updates and such). But he can still slap a Ryzen in it as it is.

My bad, not familiar with AMD A-series. When I here about a 12 year old with a slow AMD I think of FM2 I guess.

[ProximaOfZeal]

1 minute ago, asand1 said:

My bad, not familiar with AMD A-series.

Rather AMD's bad in this case, releasing a Bulldozer-kin APU on AM4 was just confusing and really is an insult to otherwise nice platform AM4 is... I suspect OP ended up being a victim of being presented a pre-built system on a new platform that instead of a Ryzen was hiding this little abomination inside.