I bought a Ryzen 5 1600 (OC'd to 3.8) and a 1080 from ASUS. Should I switch to Intel?

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After recently buying a Ryzen 5 1600, I found out that it might've not been the smartest thing to follow someones opinion without doing research. So is the switch to the 8600k or 8700k and a new STRIX mobo worth it? Using C14 DDR4 Trident Z RGB clocked at 3200MHZ 2x8
Main use is gaming. May stream in the future.
 
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for gaming, yes the 8700k is quite a step up, utterly superior if you OC to 5ghz


the 1600 is 10 - 20 fps slower than a i5 8400


if you also want to stream the i7 is the way to go:




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144HZ screen. I've heard the 2700x is pretty good. Worth the upgrade instead of I7? (makes my life 10x easier) Weird frame drops happening a lot.
 
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As I said above I'm running C14 DDR4 Ram. 2x8 16GB sorry for the confusion. Clocked at 3200mhz.
Edit: It's kind of understandable. I'm running at 1080P. Currently planning on buying a 2700X and OC'ing to 4.3GHZ on stock.
Change my mind.
Edit2: Running on a ASUS ROG X370F
 
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2700x can't be oc'd on stock cooler just so you know.
The 8700k is the best gaming cpu out there and the 2700x still falls behind. The ryzen is far superior for streaming tho.
 
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Not far then but still better due to having more cores/threads to go (which is quite nice if you are doing 60fps streaming).

However since OP is doing 144hz gaming even the 2700x might not be enough to keep all the games at that refreshrate.
 
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Ryzen is more of a workstation oriented cpu line where gaming comes second. They are good value and have a place in the market. However intel is superior if the focus is mainly gaming and definatly high refresh rate gaming.

Also before the comment was editied the answer to your question.
The new ryzen chips run hotter and therefor ocing on the stock cooler is not really possible anymore.
 
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It's just frustrating, I bought this motherboard and chip and I already have to get rid of them for intel?
 
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They do have more cores/threads but they also need more cores/threads just to keep up with today's games.
Not much left there for streaming...
Assassin's Creed Origins Benchmark youtube link
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I'm thinking of doing streaming and audio editing (for singing and stuffs) but that's kind of a dream. I've heard the 2700 is good... I really don't feel like switching to intel tbh. It's a lot of work. So if the difference between the 2700 and the 8700k is 10/20 frames it's not a big deal to me.
 
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I think you need to look into your frame drops issue now in all honesty because its certainly not normal.

What kind of extent are we talking about ??

Latest mb bios ??, latest chipset drivers ? , using ryzen power plan ? , ram running full speed dual channel ??

All worth checking.

The 2700x is a sizeable upgrade over your 1600 for gamjng+streaming imo.

For gaming alone not so much.

Reports of the 2700x maintaining 4.2GHz all core boost speeds on the stock prism cooler on x470 boards at this point in time.

Essentially rendering overclocking not really worthwhile.

You have a quality motherboard ,whether it will maintain those results is entirely down to whether asus have offered proper suport with theirbupdated bios - the boards power delivery is 100% capable though.

 
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I don't really know about the frame drops. I realized that its more that i used an intel before and haven't got used to missing a few frames i guess
 
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