Joining team red

[Hugh_Mungus]

Alright I finally pulled the trigger I decided to upgrade my pc which is currently a i7 6700k with 16 Gb of ram at  2166mhz and a Gigabyte G1 gaming 7 mobo. The CPU was beginning to show its age in AAA games like Rainbow 6 siege and PUBG often times locked at or near 100%.

 

I decided on the 2700x with a Ryzen 2 mobo with the idea of the ability to Upgrade to a Ryzen 2 Cpu in the future If I need to/ want to. A friend of mine Is buying my Now old CPU ram and Mobo for $250 so I will be saving some money, Did I charge him too little / too much? I thought it was fair. Lemme know.

 

But for about $400 to switch to Ryzen latest gen isn't bad and my multitasking is increasing 100%.

 

I want to Maximize the Performance on this cpu. I do stream and the occasional video editing. I know Ryzen loves fast ram. would It be possible to get a OC to at least 2800Mhz? and seeing as how my bank account is dead, I will stick with the stock cooler so cpu OC is not really possible but am thinking of a Noctua cooler in the future.

[Crunchy Dragon]

You should be able to get your memory up to 3000-3200Mhz.

 

As a general rule of thumb for Ryzen, you want your memory to reach at least 3000 if possible.

[DarkSmith2]

4 minutes ago, Hugh_Mungus said:

CPU was beginning to show its age in AAA games like Rainbow 6 siege and PUBG

oh okay, tell us your improvement results please  Will get interessting to see.

[Princess Luna]

You want more gaming performance from a Skylake i7 so you're going to a Ryzen? I mean sure if you're wanting to multi-task more then yes you'll gain that ground but have in mind your raw gaming performance will hardly change, it's even a downgrade if your is overclocked, specially in dx11 games.

 

If you're willing to spend that much why not the i7 8700K which is the gaming king? you mentions video editing, now Intel is better at it again because it finally allows you to hardware accelerate with the iGPU:

 

 

I mean just food for thought to you, my brother's ryzen 7 1800X will bottleneck the GTX 1080 Ti in some cases quite hard like in AC Origins on middle of alexandria the CPU chokes on 48~ fps while the GPU is on its 70's% (2560x1080p all max out)

 

[DarkSmith2]

3 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

You want more gaming performance from a Skylake i7 so you're going to a Ryzen? I mean sure if you're wanting to multi-task more then yes you'll gain that ground but have in mind your raw gaming performance will hardly change, it's even a downgrade if your is overclocked, specially in dx11 games.

i guess the important sentence is that he is streaming at the same time.. Where a 6700k just doesnt have enough cores..

[Princess Luna]

Just now, DarkSmith2 said:

i guess the important sentence is that he is streaming at the same time.. Where a 6700k just doesnt have enough cores..

It has its iGPU and quick sync

 

I finished completing my post with the edit, I just think there's a good reason to think on the i7 8700K instead specially as he wants to push fps for competitive games, we all know the i7 will still show significant single thread performance to achieve it and you and I know it can stream too...

[robotsalad]

who ever gave you money?

[DarkSmith2]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

It has its iGPU and quick sync

 

I finished completing my post with the edit, I just think there's a good reason to think on the i7 8700K instead specially as he wants to push fps for competitive games, we all know the i7 will still show significant single thread performance to achieve it and you and I know it can stream too...

Yop, well Quick Sync on lower bandwidth is just really hard to get look good. If your are bandwidth limited by f.e. Twitch.tv it would just be inconvenient. Nvidia's Nvenc does a slightly better job at those bitrates. But nothing looks quite as good as x264 encoding.

 

8700k would had been a solid choice definitely. Im using it for streaming+gaming and its good. considered that streaming in 1080p60 on twitch is impossible for alot of games without a dedicated streaming rig that can encode 1080p60 on slow x264 preset and that you would need partner status