£100 cpu upgrade or £500 mobo cpu ram upgrade
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noobwithpc
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What is your motherboard, current processor and amount of RAM? Also, what do you want to do with your PC?
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But Ryzen is extreme overkill if the PC is used for watching films, playing simple and non-CPU intensive games or office tasks. You could just buy Athlon x4 845 for £50 and spend the £450 for new furniture, for example.
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Then you should really get the Ryzen. It will help the performance much more than new FM2+ processor. Also, at the end of the year there will be an Core i5 8th generation that may offer more power than Ryzen. But anyways, what is your current motherboard and processor? You may be able to overclock it and make the waiting less painful.
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Start fresh. There's nothing to be gained by sinking money into FM2+. The differences between the cpus now, especially with AAA titles, is barely noticeable. You'll generally see 2-5fps between a low A4 and an X4 860k l
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That's not true, every computer A4 has 2 cores, and Athlon x4 has 4 cores of better architecture and higher frequencies, so it's rather 20-50 fps boost. But anyways, this is not necessary right now.
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There's only real 2x kinds of AAA games out now, heavy single thread like cs:go, LoL, rocket league etc which generally use 1-2 threads or multiple thread games which can run on 4 threads, barely, but are optimized for 5-8 thread usage. Non of the FM2+ cpus can effectively deal with the multiple thread games, BF1 for instance will put any i5 to 100% cpu usage, and with Amd only having @ ⅔ the IPC of a moderate i5, it's going to tank, hard, there won't be anything close to 20-50fps gains, more like 2-5fps at best. The best hope is for the single thread heavy games, which plays into the 4 threads or less of the FM2+ cpus, but you still have to deal with the lousy IPC, which will throttle the cpu if paired with a decent gpu. For FM2+ cpus, anything more than a gtx1050ti is going to have negative effects on the cpu. Even if it's an A4-5300 (lower end A4 at 3.4GHz) or an X4 860k (top end at 3.7GHz) the differences are negligible in computing speeds and power.
Pretty much, for a AAA gaming pc, you'll need either a newer i7 or a Ryzen 5. Anything less is wasted money as the cpu won't be enough to handle the workload AAA titles are demanding now. 2 years ago, a quad core was enough, but things have changed,enough that even top ranked i5's are in trouble.
Pretty much, for a AAA gaming pc, you'll need either a newer i7 or a Ryzen 5. Anything less is wasted money as the cpu won't be enough to handle the workload AAA titles are demanding now. 2 years ago, a quad core was enough, but things have changed,enough that even top ranked i5's are in trouble.
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The R5 1600 is a considerably more well rounded cpu than the i5's currently, there's just too many games that can/are/will use more than 4 threads. The Ryzen might not top the i5 in older single thread games, especially the DX11 titles, but with AAA games, that style of coding is becoming obsolete. There's just too much graphical detailing, making for extremely long code strings. Easier by far to use 2x shorter strings instead.
The best gaming cpu currently is the i7-7700k, none of the Ryzen cpus can touch its IPC or its stock clocks and with 8thread capability it'll handle any game. But for a mid-grade build, Ryzen is simply the better option.
The best gaming cpu currently is the i7-7700k, none of the Ryzen cpus can touch its IPC or its stock clocks and with 8thread capability it'll handle any game. But for a mid-grade build, Ryzen is simply the better option.
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