AMD Build with Asus and Ryzen but budget conscious

Timstertimster

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Always overwhelmed with the options and the details.

I have an Asus GTX 970 Ti Strix on an Asus MoBo with an old FX 6300

Skyrim SE with zillion mods is getting a bit choppy and my Dax Studio IRay renders are okay but man, loading scenes takes ages. Like a full minute sometimes. Ugh.

Samsung evo 840 SSD's and a few HDDs for backing up things. All on SATA.

So now I'm just not sure... I have good experience with Asus so I'll probably stick with that but I want to be able to hook up a lot of SATA devices.

I work with compressed files a lot and the FX 6300 is showing its age there. So I figure I upgrade to a Ryzen but which one???

What do I need 8 cores for? Is the little bit of MHZ really going to make a difference everyday?

Apparently I really ought to pay attention to RAM and I just want to know what to buy without breaking the bank. I don't need too of the line. I need sensible budget conscious workhorse equipment that I can live with for 3 years or so.
 
Solution
If the only purpose of the rig is gaming then go for Intel. But if you want to do some video editing or streaming or any other kind of productive and CPU intensive stuff Ryzen is good.