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2600K to R5 1600

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My brother currently has a 2600k that, frankly, over the years we've tried to OC on several attempts but really couldn't get it stable within reason above 4 Ghz. I'm looking at getting an R5 1600 from a friend of mine for $125 and I have a spare AM4 motherboard lying around. Would he benifit swapping over to the Ryzen system? Currently he games at 1080p and has a 144Hz monitor. He is looking to record video and potentially stream, but isn't 100% sure on this yet. Suggestions?

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For games, it wouldn't really do much, except for multi threaded ones. As for streaming the 1600 would make a huge difference. 4c 4t vs 6c 12t

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what GPU does he have?

ryzen will help a lot when recording videos / editing / streaming, but you can always use fraps and record uncompressed (practically no CPU usage, lots of disk usage, have to deal with HUGE video files)

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Honestly with ram prices nowadays just get whatever i7 is in your generation

Should be around 100-170

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3 minutes ago, LordSlimJimm said:

 

The R5 1600 is going to be better for streaming and video editing.

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Yeah DDR4 prices are a little rough right now, but he could probably get by with 8gb for the time being. Granted for $175 USD for the cpu and motherboard, he could afford 16gb if he REALLY wanted it. He currently has a gtx 1060 6gb.

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For his uses, he would see a pretty big increase in performance with a Ryzen 5 1600.

 

Provided you can get the memory for it

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2 minutes ago, LordSlimJimm said:

Yeah DDR4 prices are a little rough right now, but he could probably get by with 8gb for the time being. Granted for $175 USD for the cpu and motherboard, he could afford 16gb if he REALLY wanted it. He currently has a gtx 1060 6gb.

Ram is pretty much another 175,but at this point considering that a odler i7 will at max cost 150.It's not that great of a idea

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If he has that thing overclocked to 4.5 or 4.6 GHz, his gaming performance wouldn't really change much, but his streaming performance would be so much better it isn't even funny.

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2 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Ram is pretty much another 175,but at this point considering that a odler i7 will at max cost 150.It's not that great of a idea

I feel like an 8gb (2x4gb) kit of DDR4 3000 would get him by for now and that's priced at about $100 on Newegg. I do agree that prices of ram right now are STUPIDLY high right now. I remember getting kits of ddr3 1600 for $40 back in the day lol

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Just now, Emberstone said:

If he has that thing overclocked to 4.5 or 4.6 GHz, his gaming performance wouldn't really change much, but his streaming performance would be so much better it isn't even funny.

I think he lost the silicon lottery big time on that chip. We haven't been able to get his cpu above 4Ghz stable with good voltages. My old 2500k hit 4.6 Ghz easily and I'm surprised we can't get it much higher on his.. It kind of sucks.

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1 hour ago, LordSlimJimm said:

I think he lost the silicon lottery big time on that chip. We haven't been able to get his cpu above 4Ghz stable with good voltages. My old 2500k hit 4.6 Ghz easily and I'm surprised we can't get it much higher on his.. It kind of sucks.

Ryzen will be a nice increase in performance, then.

 

My i7-980X was pretty similar. At 1.36v (didn't want to go higher because of temps), the highest I could get was 4.0 GHz, despite hearing others reaching 4.3 to 4.4 GHz on the same voltage.

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1 hour ago, LordSlimJimm said:

I think he lost the silicon lottery big time on that chip. We haven't been able to get his cpu above 4Ghz stable with good voltages. My old 2500k hit 4.6 Ghz easily and I'm surprised we can't get it much higher on his.. It kind of sucks.

Could just be a terrible motherboard

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whats "good voltages" in your opinion?. Anything below 1.4v is completely fine for sandy, and over the years i havent seen a 2600k that doesnt reach 4.5 ghz on 1.4v

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Gaming will be the same or better with the 1600 as the IPC is better than sandy bridge (I've tested it myself).

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