Upgrading from Ryzen 5 1500x to 2600x on a x370 mobo

[ckl_1981]

Good day everyone, I wanted to upgrade my processor to a 2600x from a 1500x. But is it worth it, cause my 1500x has no issues in ultra gaming. Is worth the upgrade. My current cpu is just 7 month old...

[NelizMastr]

It's up to you. If you think you can justify spending more for the better chip, go for it. 

[Rupe]

I wouldn't upgrade for the sake of it. 7 Months isn't that long. As long as you are currently happy with the performance of your 1500x I would stick with it

[3 Lions]

No not really

[paddy-stone]

2 minutes ago, ckl_1981 said:

Good day everyone, I wanted to upgrade my processor to a 2600x from a 1500x. But is it worth it, cause my 1500x has no issues in ultra gaming. Is worth the upgrade. My current cpu is just 7 month old...

Not for gaming IMO, you'd barely see much of a benefit. You'd be better off investing that money towards a new GPU or new CPU next year when the performance bump will be significantly better IMO.

[ckl_1981]

Thanks everyone I can save money then. Thanks. Hows the 2700x performing on gaming?

[GoldenLag]

Dont bother. 3rd gen Ryzen might be worth it. But otherwise just hold your money.

[ckl_1981]

2 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Not for gaming IMO, you'd barely see much of a benefit. You'd be better off investing that money towards a new GPU or new CPU next year when the performance bump will be significantly better IMO.

I bought a RX 580 over my good ol R9 280 i am afraid my 1500x will be bottlenecking it

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, ckl_1981 said:

Thanks everyone I can save money then. Thanks. Hows the 2700x performing on gaming?

Identically to the Ryzen 5 2600X

 

Games really don't use more than 6 cores, like ever, adding more cores only allows you to multi-task more as in run more stuff along side the game, it won't improve the game performance.

 

To improve gaming performance only having better cores but then that means going to Intel.

[ckl_1981]

1 minute ago, GoldenLag said:

Dont bother. 3rd gen Ryzen might be worth it. But otherwise just hold your money.

Got it bro theank everyone I am saving now. Good mate and thanks

[ckl_1981]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Identically to the Ryzen 5 2600X

 

Games really don't use more than 6 cores, like ever, adding more cores only allows you to multi-task more as in run more stuff along side the game, it won't improve the game performance.

 

To improve gaming performance only having better cores but then that means going to Intel.

No offence, Anti Intel here I love AMD

[paddy-stone]

4 minutes ago, ckl_1981 said:

I bought a RX 580 over my good ol R9 280 i am afraid my 1500x will be bottlenecking it

I don't like that word, it has connotations that something isn't right with a build... and that's just not true, as there'll always be SOMETHING that's holding back another piece of hardware, it's hard to get a perfectly balanced build IMO... You can get CLOSE certainly, but not dead on. TBH with some games favouring single core speed it would be better with intel for the moment, but for others that can make use of the multi-threading Ryzen can get close to or even exceeed intel in some games, it's a toss-up as to what's better. Most people would say intel though.

I think your build is fine how it is, and would wait for next year and see what the new Ryzen build will bring with their 7nm chips performance wise... that's what I am doing now even though I am itching to build another rig, lol. I have the money, I just can't justify the expense to myself when the "upgrade" is so incremental over last years... I have a 1700 @3.85-4.0 Ghz, but mostly use it at 3.85 to keep the heat and electric cost down as much as possible.

[ckl_1981]

2 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

I don't like that word, it has connotations that something isn't right with a build... and that's just not true, as there'll always be SOMETHING that's holding back another piece of hardware, it's hard to get a perfectly balanced build IMO... You can get CLOSE certainly, but not dead on. TBH with some games favouring single core speed it would be better with intel for the moment, but for others that can make use of the multi-threading Ryzen can get close to or even exceeed intel in some games, it's a toss-up as to what's better. Most people would say intel though.

I think your build is fine how it is, and would wait for next year and see what the new Ryzen build will bring with their 7nm chips performance wise... that's what I am doing now even though I am itching to build another rig, lol. I have the money, I just can't justify the expense to myself when the "upgrade" is so incremental over last years... I have a 1700 @3.85-4.0 Ghz, but mostly use it at 3.85 to keep the heat and electric cost down as much as possible.

Will it be AM5 socket lols... I am very satisfy with my 1500x using Hyper T4 no overclocking. Gaming it just turn on XFR automatically...But you really need some effort to mount the Hyper T4 on an AM4 socket but its fine...

[GoldenLag]

13 minutes ago, ckl_1981 said:

No offence, Anti Intel here I love AMD

Dont anti any brand. It will hurt you in the long run. But you can preffer a brand, just dont fanboy your way to an fx CPU.

 

17 minutes ago, ckl_1981 said:

I bought a RX 580 over my good ol R9 280 i am afraid my 1500x will be bottlenecking it

It wont. The 1500x is pretty much a lower clocked i7 7700. You might bottleneck in veeery specific games. Though few and far between in modern titles

[GoldenLag]

2 minutes ago, ckl_1981 said:

Will it be AM5 socket lols...

AM4 is untill 4000 series Ryzen. 5000 will require AM5

[ckl_1981]

1 minute ago, GoldenLag said:

Dont anti any brand. It will hurt you in the long run. But you can preffer a brand, just dont fanboy your way to an fx CPU.

 

It wont. The 1500x is pretty much a lower clocked i7 7700. You might bottleneck in veeery specific games. Though few and far between in modern titles

I understand but Intel in Malaysia is a bit expensive so I just stick to AMD. The only thing that AMD did not improve is the PGA and The LGA

[paddy-stone]

3 minutes ago, ckl_1981 said:

Will it be AM5 socket lols... I am very satisfy with my 1500x using Hyper T4 no overclocking. Gaming it just turn on XFR automatically...But you really need some effort to mount the Hyper T4 on an AM4 socket but its fine...

No still AM4 socket, but vendors may need to adjust how the BIOS goes in the boards, or upgrade the BIOS chips for the microcode so I've heard because the code is pretty big now.

[ckl_1981]

2 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

AM4 is untill 4000 series Ryzen. 5000 will require AM5

Bios upgrade again...lols i am using a x370 not a x470

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

It wont. The 1500x is pretty much a lower clocked i7 7700.

This is plain wrong, the Ryzen 5 1500X is at best when fully overclocked comparable to the locked i7 4770.

 

The i7 7700 is a lot better specially single thread wise.

[ckl_1981]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

This is plain wrong, the Ryzen 5 1500X is at best when fully overclocked comparable to the locked i7 4770.

 

The i7 7700 is a lot better specially single thread wise.

No overclocking for me. I just stick to stock clock and XFR Turbo with my lovely hyper T4

[ckl_1981]

i pulled the amd processor together with the heatsink 5 times on my old am3 but no bend pins

[ckl_1981]

14 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

I don't like that word, it has connotations that something isn't right with a build... and that's just not true, as there'll always be SOMETHING that's holding back another piece of hardware, it's hard to get a perfectly balanced build IMO... You can get CLOSE certainly, but not dead on. TBH with some games favouring single core speed it would be better with intel for the moment, but for others that can make use of the multi-threading Ryzen can get close to or even exceeed intel in some games, it's a toss-up as to what's better. Most people would say intel though.

I think your build is fine how it is, and would wait for next year and see what the new Ryzen build will bring with their 7nm chips performance wise... that's what I am doing now even though I am itching to build another rig, lol. I have the money, I just can't justify the expense to myself when the "upgrade" is so incremental over last years... I have a 1700 @3.85-4.0 Ghz, but mostly use it at 3.85 to keep the heat and electric cost down as much as possible.

so far i set all my games to ultra at 1080p no lag just frag lols...

[ckl_1981]

maybe i will use the cash to get a freesync monitor with 144hz is it ok instead of a new chip?

[paddy-stone]

2 minutes ago, ckl_1981 said:

maybe i will use the cash to get a freesync monitor with 144hz is it ok instead of a new chip?

Unless you can hit those numbers it won't be worth it IMO... your choice though. I would hold off personally and save for next year and go for a better GPU or maybe even 4k monitor.

[ckl_1981]

2 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Unless you can hit those numbers it won't be worth it IMO... your choice though. I would hold off personally and save for next year and go for a better GPU or maybe even 4k monitor.

got it next year is just 9 month out i may even get a vega64 lols