Should i upgrade ? from a 4690k @4.6 to the ryzen 2600 ?

sykotik

With the new Ryzen CPU's (3000 chips )  out in the next few days the prices of the old 2000 chips (2600)  has drop a lot  , and there's some deals to be had , but is it worth the cost of a new mobo, ram and CPU (roughly £345)
or should i be on the look out for an old 4790k (£-200) which could save me a few quid in the long run..  
the pc is only been used for gaming ..

the 3000 chips are an option but seen as the X570 mobos are going to be at stupid price  ( for only whats looks like the new  PCIe 4  ) seems a but pointless to me to be looking at them ..

thoughts on postcard to PO box 123xxxxx
anyways just post here

Delvey

Yes it is. You would get £350 for your old system. The i5 will likely be bottle necking your GPU as well depending what you have. PCIE 4 isn't needed for GPUs, even the RTX 2080 ti only uses something like 70% of PCI 3 bandwidth.
PCIE4 also makes a difference if running multiple M2 sata drives.
I would go for the B450/X470 and a 3000 ryzen (these boards will support the 3 series ryzen). I upgraded from an i5 4670k to ryzen 5 2600 and everything is faster

duncfunk

100% go with the Ryzen upgrade. A 4790k might still keep up in gaming but it's overpriced and is going to go out of date pretty fast in the next couple of years. As Delvey said, go for a decent B450 board like an MSI Tomahawk for example. Prices on Amazon right now:

Ryzen 5 2600 £125
MSI B450 Tomahawk £90
16GB Corsair Vengeance 3000MHz £66
Total = £281

sykotik

Cheers lads , iv got a 1080 ti ,  and playing on 1440p  165hz monitor

just noticed i'v put the 2600 , it's the 2700 ( £189) i was looking at ,
iv already got the ram ( 16gb @ 3200 )

the new 3000 chips are out tomorrow , i'll  wait and see what the results are with them ..

jassco

I'm doing almost exactly the same but going from a 3570k. I got a b450 MSI gaming board for £65 and 16gb 3000 ddr4 take for £65 a couple of weeks back. Then I'll likely be going 3600 or 3600x when they're released next week. Total spend will be around 320, and I'm hoping to make 150-200 back on the old components

duncfunk

The 3000 chips should be pretty good alright. I'd be looking for 2600 vs 3600 comparisons though. From a price to performance standpoint the 3600 will be about 50% more expensive at current prices and you'd want a fairly hefty performance increase to justify that over a 2600.

sykotik

Agreed , just going to wait to see what comes of them , and what my option are going to be ,
buy cheap a  2700  or wait and see what the 3600/x comes up with .

Delvey

I'd buy a cheap 2xxx and possibly upgrade in a year or 2. Depending on demand the 3xxx might sell out quickly anyway.
PC gaming at the moment is cheap as well.
You could pick up a Ryzen 2600, 16gb Ram, motherboard and a Vega 56 for £500 and it will handle pretty much everything at 1080p, and even 1440 for some games

sykotik

Only need the Mobo and CPU , got every thing else  , but yea the 26/2700 are still an option to  me  , just how much of an option their are ?  , "we" will find out tomorrow

duncfunk

I don't think the 2700 would make sense here unless you're using your PC for cpu intensive workloads outside of gaming? It's currently the same price as the 3600 will be at launch and is only marginally faster than the 2600 for gaming.