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Upgrading from R5 1600

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Hi there,

 

Since I bought GTX1080, I was thinking about upgrading my Ryzen 5 1600. Its currently running at 3.8Ghz, but I still feel like its bottlenecking the GPU. I'm looking for upgrade options. The easiest one would be buying higher tier Ryzen CPU like Ryzen 7 1700/1800. But I don't know if my current mobo (Asus ROG B350-F) will handle high TDP CPU at slight OC or even stock.

  So the  other option would be Intel. I've heard that 9th gen CPUs are coming, but I don't know when, so I'm not sure if buying something like i5 8600k or i7 8700k right now is a smart choice.

From watching reviews and comparisons, i5 8600k looks a good bit faster than R5 1600, so I could easily go for it. 

 

I'm open to any recommendations, if you think I should go for Intel CPU, I would appreciate a suggestion for good OC motherboard.

 

Thank you. 

 

Oh btw, Budget - 500 euros.

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B350 would be fine running a 1700/1800

 

You say that you feel the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU? Is it limiting your frame rate? Are you getting a frame rate lower than the refresh rate of your monitor? 

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Coming from someone that has had the opportunity to own and play with a few Ryzen  CPU's: 1200, 1500X, 1700 and a 2600 I've got it say I don't think you will notice any major gaming difference by stepping up from the 1600.  That wasn't my upgrade path, I own the 1500X and 2600, the 1200 and 1700 were builds for family members that I used for a few weeks before they got them.

 

For what it's worth I was using a 1070 playing on a 1080p 144hz display.   With the exception of the 1200, the frame rates between the 3 were nearly the same.  Literally would forget what CPU I was playing on.   I don't know that adding two more cores and having clock speed around the same is going be the improvement you are looking for.  

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8 minutes ago, Suika said:

What resolution are you running? My 2700X has been treating me and my 1080 Ti alright.

 

9 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

B350 would be fine running a 1700/1800

 

You say that you feel the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU? Is it limiting your frame rate? Are you getting a frame rate lower than the refresh rate of your monitor? 

I'm playing at 3440*1440p. When playing games like AC Origins or BF1 I sometimes GPU usage drops to 70-80% and FPS drops below 60. My refresh rate is 75Hz.

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Just now, PopsicleHustler said:

 

I'm playing at 3440*1440p. When playing games like AC Origins or BF1 I sometimes GPU usage drops to 70-80% and FPS drops below 60. My refresh rate is 75Hz.

You could try OCing the CPU if it's not OCed yet. You should be able to get at least 3.7ghz ish out of it. A 1700/1800x wouldn't be much of an upgrade.

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Just now, DocSwag said:

You could try OCing the CPU if it's not OCed yet. You should be able to get at least 3.7ghz ish out of it. A 1700/1800x wouldn't be much of an upgrade.

Already running at 3.8Ghz 1.35V

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15 minutes ago, PopsicleHustler said:

Already running at 3.8Ghz 1.35V

Does CPU usage on a few cores hit 100% when the GPU usage drops? It's usually odd for the CPU to bottleneck at such high resolutions. Maybe you might have stuff in the background idk

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