I need advice on upgrading my CPU

Crazy Tubex

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So Im rocking a PC that I used since '12
athlon x4 750K clocked at 4.5ghz (since '12 still working)
16gb 1866mhz
2x 120gb SSD
2x 1tb 7200rpm HDD
and I treated my self for christmas and bought rx 460 4gb .

I dont do a lot of gaming , mainly cs go lol cod bo3 and gta 5 mp once in a while .

But Im programer and when I build this thing in '12 it was a beast , visual studio build program so fast also I use unity 3d a lot and back then it was fast but on newer version of unity its slow when ever I do something it takse 5sec to register and 2sec to do it .


So should I get I5 or R5 . If Im geting amd I would probably be geting cheapest 4c/8t model because I simply dont have money to spend on 250dollar cpu . Also MOBO is question should I buy know or wait for cheaper mobos , because from what I saw every MOBO for ryzen is 90+ dollar and for itnels new 7xxx line cheapest is like 50 60 bucks .

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Lutfij
 
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You should definitely wait for Ryzen. The cheapest CPU will be 130$ dollars which will be clocked at 3.2 GHZ. You should definitely wait for the motherboard. Spend a little more time with this and upgrade to Ryzen 5 later in a while.

Lutfij

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When you say pro gamer, these titles
cs go lol cod bo3 and gta 5 mp
don't speak for it.

The system in itself wasn't a beast so that is one other misconception that needed knocking off.

To get to the point, if you can't afford a 250USD processor then pretty much any top tier non K suffix processor in the Kabylake family is out. Which also means you can't go for an Intel chipset board. If you're looking at AMD's RyZen platform, then yeah you will need to wait a little while longer since they will be launching board in other flavors, form factors and with different chipsets thus meeting pretty much any price bracket and at almost every form factor - mitx to atx.

i say wait and ofc there are optimizations we're going to need to wait for when RyZen is in the hands of the masses.