Is ryzen still okay for gaming?

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Now the new 8th series of intel is out i have a question. Is ryzen still okay for gaming?
I personally think I shouldn't upgrade already but here's my specs:

Ryzen 5 1600 @ 4ghz
16gb ram @3000mhz
Gigabyte aorus ax370 gaming k5
Gigabyte Gtx 1080 windforce overclocked.

I've done a lot of testing and it seems like the graphics card isn't bottlenecked by the ryzen chip as 99% gpu usage in games
 
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geofelt

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So long as your r5 1600does the job for you, it is OK.

If, or when it no longer does the job, then it is time to upgrade.

Unfortunately, your only upgrade is from 12 threads to something higher.
Clocks for ryzen top out near the 4.0 you already have.

Most games really do not effectively use more than 4 threads.
You can test this assertion out for yourself with YOUR games.
Experiment with removing one or more cores/threads. You can do this in the windows msconfig boot advanced options option.
You will need to reboot for the change to take effect. Set the number of threads to less than you have.
This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many threads.
If you see little difference, your game does not need all the threads you have.
 
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Cromwell__

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A new CPU being released does not suddenly make your current CPU perform worse than it was the day before the new CPU came out. :) Your CPU will be great for gaming for years. My advice is to literally not pay attention to new CPU technology until 2019 at the earliest. Just stop paying attention. This is a good rule for ALL tech when you buy it. As soon as you buy anything tech related, something better will come out the next month or next year. You buy a new phone, and either a better phone will come out 3 months later for the same price, or the phone you just bought will have its price cut by 30%. You buy a new television and the next year's model of that same television will have "slightly improved blacks" or "slightly better backlighting" or something for the same price.

Anyway, buy your tech for your current needs (with MAYBE an eye on news at the time to make sure you aren't buying something that will be outclassed in a week) and then just enjoy your purchase and stop looking at what "might have been" if you had just waited 1 or 3 or 6 months. Otherwise you'll spend your life either constantly waiting 6 more months, or you'll spend your life regretting your purchases.
 
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JamesSneed

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Ignore all CPU releases for at least 2 years :) Once Zen 2 comes out in 2019 maybe think of upgrading to it as it should socket into the AM4 board.

I know you already picked a solution but games are made for CPU's that are a couple years old by the time the game is ready to purchase. So nothing that comes out in the next 2 years is going to change your gaming performance with your 1600x it will handle whatever games you toss at it, same of course goes for Intel CPU's as well.

I expect you can buy a new GPU in 2019 or 2020 and play whatever you want at max settings for a few more years. Really don't expect you to be CPU bottlenecked for 5 years or so.
 
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g-unit1111

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Yes I definitely agree with this. If you have a 6700K you're fine. If you have a 4690K you're fine. If you have a 3570K or a 3770K you're also good. My rule of thumb is that I generally change out my hardware (motherboard / CPU / RAM) every 3 years. GPUs on the other hand change a lot more frequently than CPUs do and that has a lot to do with how fast display technology changes every year. So I say GPU every other year, CPU every 3 years.
 
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