Q9650 Upgrade (old rig)

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dsr07mm

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Greetings,

I have 270e budget, nothing more. That's around 300$ i I believe.

I have doubts about something.

My current rig has q9650/6gb ddr2/gt1030 and 650W PSU.

Is it okay to get 4670k (4.2GHz clocked, checked and tested), Asus Z87-K mobo and 8gb ddr3 ram ?

Thats roughly 260e and I'm good to go with my GT1030 for some competetive games until I don't get money for 1050Ti. Only 1050Ti and nothing more !

I can get Ryzen 5 1600X (No cooler) + MOBO but I'm short on cooler and ram which is extremly expensive here (like 100e 8gb ddr4).

I see only 10% difference in ryzen 5 and this cpu and having on mind that it can be clocked, is this worth investition to get along with GTX1050 Ti 4GB ?

I would mostly play games like H1Z1/PUBG/Overwatch/Diablo 3/ Dead by Daylight etc. I'm worried that this rig isn't going to hold next 2-3 years only because its quad core :)

Please advice me, and NO I can't get NEW components with choosing what I please, this is my only offer which I can afford.

I already have CASE, SSD, HDD.
 
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The big problem with the 4670K is, there's no real upgrade path in the future. You're stuck on DDR3 and can go with an i7-4790K at most.

Since I don't know what country you live in, I can't get you accurate prices, but considering you're coming from a Q9650, I'd recommend going with a Ryzen 3 1200, overclock it to 3.8 GHz (this is usually possible with the boxed cooler that comes with it!) and get a B350 board and 8GB of DDR4 to go with it.
Single-core speed won't differ from the R5 1600X since it's the same architecture with less enabled cores, so you won't see much difference between these two in eSports games.
With that, you should stay in your budget, but you'd be able to upgrade to a Ryzen 7 CPU (or even the Ryzen Refresh that...
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The big problem with the 4670K is, there's no real upgrade path in the future. You're stuck on DDR3 and can go with an i7-4790K at most.

Since I don't know what country you live in, I can't get you accurate prices, but considering you're coming from a Q9650, I'd recommend going with a Ryzen 3 1200, overclock it to 3.8 GHz (this is usually possible with the boxed cooler that comes with it!) and get a B350 board and 8GB of DDR4 to go with it.
Single-core speed won't differ from the R5 1600X since it's the same architecture with less enabled cores, so you won't see much difference between these two in eSports games.
With that, you should stay in your budget, but you'd be able to upgrade to a Ryzen 7 CPU (or even the Ryzen Refresh that should still work on B350 motherboards), 16GB of DDR4 without having to change the platform in the foreseeable future, at a minimal performance loss compared to the -4670K.
 
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Sell the Q9650 to begin with. They go for around 60-80€ on ebay.
Good 775 boards go for around half that price.
If you got 2GB sticks of DDR2-800 CL5 or better in there they go for around 15-30€ each.

That would bring in a good start and up your budget by around 120 to 200€ for a total of somewhere inbetween 300-500€, not bad to build a decent rig that'll last for some time.

Ofcourse you need to sell first to have the funds for an upgrade, meanwhile there will be lack in a usable system at all.
 
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