Will the 2600x be good enough for recording/streaming/rendering and gaming?

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Hey guys. I have an amd fx 9370 and a gtx 1070 and I would like to know if the 2600x would be enough for gaming and recording/rendering/streaming. If it isn't should I go with the 2700x or 8700k? I'm gaming at 1080p 60hz. Thanks in advance.
 
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Not only will it be a signficant increase in performance, it will actually work right. Which is more than can be said of the 9xxx series AMD platform at the best of times. Probably your 9370 wasn't as bad about heat and throttling as the 9590's were, but it will still a seriously high voltage leakage chip and the motherboards that practically all of the 9xxx series were being run on were not even minutely designed to be able to handle the electrical stress. VRM throttling was common, especially under high loads and you might not have even known it was happening.

You'll be miles better off with ANY CPU that has been released in the last two to three years.
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Not only will it be a signficant increase in performance, it will actually work right. Which is more than can be said of the 9xxx series AMD platform at the best of times. Probably your 9370 wasn't as bad about heat and throttling as the 9590's were, but it will still a seriously high voltage leakage chip and the motherboards that practically all of the 9xxx series were being run on were not even minutely designed to be able to handle the electrical stress. VRM throttling was common, especially under high loads and you might not have even known it was happening.

You'll be miles better off with ANY CPU that has been released in the last two to three years.
 
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There are no CPUs designed to "stream and game at the same time". They are simply designed for heavy multi-tasking, of any kind. Of course, that falls under that category so in some sense it's true but they are certainly not "designed" for streaming while gaming. It just happens that streaming while gaming is a heavy multi-tasking environment.

It will do just fine. I'd be sure not to skimp on the amount of memory (RAM) though, multitasking hits memory usage pretty hard if you have enough things running, or processes that are rather demanding.
 
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It's not the memory frequency that is important. Memory is already stupid fast as it is. It's the quantity. Less than 16GB and you may notice some lag or paging file usage if you are gaming and streaming simultaneously, especially if you're recording too, or running browser tabs along with it. 16GB is the number I'd target for memory. I'd get a 2 x8GB kit, at the least.
 
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