will current mobo be okay

marco.da.man · 27 May 2020 at 18:26

Afternoon all

Im just wandering if anyone has run a ryzen 3600 on a gigabyte aorus ax370 gaming 5 mobo ?

Im currently running it with a ryzen 1700 @ 3.9ghz 32gig team group 8pack dark pro edition 3200mhz ram and a evga 1171 2070xc gpu. Seasonic Focus Plus 650w 80 Plus gold modular psu. H115i platinum cooler

Would I still be able to oc the 3600 if needed and VRM's still be good ?
Will I experience any preformance lose on the 3600 from it being an older board ?

I cant afford to change the mobo at the minute, but maybe in future, but with my current specs I'm finding on gta fivem and rdr2 I'm experencing FPS drops etc

My mobo is updated too latest F50a bios ready to go

cheers all

Gray2233 · 27 May 2020 at 18:31

If your 1700 runs fine a 3600 should be.

https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/GA-AX370-Gaming-5-rev-10/support#support-cpu

Joxeon · 27 May 2020 at 18:32

Pretty sure you would be fine especially with the Vrm as the 3600 uses less power than a 1700.

marco.da.man · 27 May 2020 at 18:52

cheers gents

pastymuncher · 27 May 2020 at 19:07

Do those games make use of all the cores they can get? You may be gaining 500mhz boost clock but you would be losing 2 cores/4 threads so wouldn't a 3700x make more sense? If you have access to our MM there have been some 3700x's coming up at very resonable prices recently.

marco.da.man · 27 May 2020 at 20:07

yo pasty, as far as i know red dead 2 runs better on more cores and threads, saying that at presnt time I only have a £170 budget. I am about 170 posts I think from MM

Joxeon · 27 May 2020 at 20:22

A 3600 is still a significant upgrade over a 1700 if you play at 1080p and less than 10% behind a 3700x which costs over 50% more, If you play a 1440p or higher then either CPU is unlikely to make a big difference over a 1700.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=433&v=z_ty-gajwoA&feature=emb_logo

marco.da.man · 27 May 2020 at 20:27

cheers joxeon, yeah im just at 1080p that it