Upgrade from i7 4770k - Tell me what I already know

[Trick]

I wasnt quite using a 4770, but ive just upgraded from a 3570k at 4.2ghz with 16GB DDR3 1600 to a new system. As expected, its a night-and-day difference in performance

Now using an X570 Tomahawk, 32BG DDR4 3600, and I took a punt on an untested Ryzen 5 3600 for £90 as a "stop-gap" cpu until Zen3 launches... and it works great! Bargain.

So hopefully it'll just be a case of dropping in a Zen3 when they become available and my upgrade from a 2012 PC will be complete

I'll keep my Vega64 for a bit. The mobo/ram/cpu update alone has doubled my performance in FS2020

 

[popej]

Currently got....

Is that you [CELES] Kinsy?

 

[Kinsy]

Hold on, let me just undock my carrier...

 

[Kinsy]

On that note...
I am selling the 2nd PC I built for fun for £600 - I gave a friend of mine a 2500K/GTX770 backup build in my old ATCS201 case for, well, free a while back. He's got the bug again and wants an upgrade and to pay me back a little so he's saving his pennies.

Looking at all the pretty graphs the 5000 series will lick the bumcheeks but, again, I really don't need super CPU horses for my gaming PC. I daily drive my 34" through the Macbook Pro and run all my renders on it / a million quote spreadsheets / a Windblows 10 VM for necessary evils (**** you Sage!) with ease.

I know supply is a massive unknown with 3080s still so I'm yet to make my mind up, but considering I could buy the board and RAM now I'm sorely tempted to get started. Maybe even be a complete tit and get a 3600X to tide me over like you Trick (where did you get that from!?)

 

[Chaos666]

if you are aiming for ryzen 3000 then i would still wait.. as I imagine that there will be a lot of well priced cpu's on the market after 5000 series launches.
i would personally go for 3600 (non X) or ad a bit more and went with 3700x.. makes more sense...

 

[CuriousTomCat]

Worth holding out for Ryzen 3 and 3080?

If you're framerate is low then you should upgrade ASAP. It's not worth putting up with frame stutter in your favourite games while you wait for a CPU to get released.

 

[Kinsy]

I'm obviously going to wait for the 5000 series and probably go for a 5800X, no point buying a 3000 series right now.
Framerate dips in PUBG are doing my head in atm and looking at the graphs, the GPU isn't hitting 100% all the time, going between 80 and 95%.

In the meantime, am considering beating the bumrush and ordering this now:-

Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-35200C19 4400MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G440C9K)
Stock Code MY-103-PA


Pre Order



Was: £149.99
£119.99*
£119.99*



Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard
Stock Code MB-6DV-AS


10+ In stock



Was: £314.99
£289.99*
£289.99*



EK Water Blocks EK-Quantum Momentum ROG Strix X570-E D-RGB Monoblock - Plexi
Stock Code WC-9WD-EK


Out of stock



£124.99*
£124.99*



In the meantime I would add I got my Adata 2133mhz 16GB DDR3 kit running at 2600mhz 1T Command rate and am trying to get 4.5Ghz out of the 4770k. It's getting 1.4v to do it along with a load of other tweaks but I'll see if I can get it up to 4.6 without hitting TJMax. Remove all the bottlenecks!

 

[iamtheoneneo]

As someone with 4770k it absolutely time to upgrade...its clearly getting on now.

I only question moving to 5000 series over 3000 series as currently a 3800x is £100 cheaper than a 5800x and the price will likely come down even more after 5000 series launch. Its a shame AMD hiked the price up as if it was £50 difference its more platable but £100 is a fair bit of cash.

 

[EsaT]

Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-35200C19 4400MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G440C9K)
£119.99*


Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard
£289.99*

EK Water Blocks EK-Quantum Momentum ROG Strix X570-E D-RGB Monoblock - Plexi
£124.99*

Would never pay that much for non future proof basic amount of memory.
It's doubtfull there's that much increase in optimal IF synced memory frequency for Zen3 and would spend luxury on future proof 2x16GB.


MSI X570 Tomahawk has that brand overhype Asus by the balls with properly designed chipset heatsink working passively, if you have working case cooling.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...-am4-ddr4-x570-atx-motherboard-mb-351-ms.html
That would save £200 for something actually useful, like proper size SSD.

 

[Chaos666]

MSI X570 Tomahawk has that brand overhype Asus by the balls with properly designed chipset heatsink working passively, if you have working case cooling.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...-am4-ddr4-x570-atx-motherboard-mb-351-ms.html
That would save £200 for something actually useful, like proper size SSD.

but he wants that monoblock