tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
I wanted to stop pc gaming and buy a XSX, but I can't buy an XSX so now I'm back to upgrading my nearly 10 year old i7 4770. Unfortunately basically everything is expensive these days and I just don't want to spend a 1000+ just to play games from time to time.
My goal is to have a cpu capable of easily doing 60fps in almost all games (I don't do sims or rts) until the start of the next console generation. I already have a 2070 super so that will probably last me another 1 ~ 2 years.
So I was looking at what is available and reasonably priced. 5800x? pretty expensive. 12600k? even more expensive. 5600x or 12400? not that expensive but with only 6 cores those cpu's just don't feel like that good value for money. Ryzen 7000 and Intel 13th gen are basically stupidly expensive. A 7700x is like 50% more expensive than a 5800x.
But browsing a local seller I spotted the 5700x. It's 3/4 of the price of a 5800x, only 40 buck more than a 5600x and as far as I can tell its basically a 5800x but with a slightly lower base clock. The few reviews I read basically but the performance within 2~3% of a 5800x.
It's 30.000 yen which is cheap in USD but the yen isn't worth shit at the moment...
I was thinking about getting something like this
5700x
Asus TUF B550 (or maybe save ~30 bucks and get an asrock or gigabyte with the same b550 chip?)
16gb 3600mhz CL18 (would it be worth it spending double for 32gb cl16?)
Scythe mugen5 or fuma2 because they are cheap. Haven't really done any research on them but they look fine.
Samsung 980 pro 1tb (or can I get a gen3 nvme and still be good when direct storage etc hit?)
Ignoring the ssd, because I don't absolutely need that at the moment, those parts will be about 50 bucks more than a XSX. Is there a good chance such a system will have no problems hitting 60fps on the cpu side for the next 4 years or so?
My goal is to have a cpu capable of easily doing 60fps in almost all games (I don't do sims or rts) until the start of the next console generation. I already have a 2070 super so that will probably last me another 1 ~ 2 years.
So I was looking at what is available and reasonably priced. 5800x? pretty expensive. 12600k? even more expensive. 5600x or 12400? not that expensive but with only 6 cores those cpu's just don't feel like that good value for money. Ryzen 7000 and Intel 13th gen are basically stupidly expensive. A 7700x is like 50% more expensive than a 5800x.
But browsing a local seller I spotted the 5700x. It's 3/4 of the price of a 5800x, only 40 buck more than a 5600x and as far as I can tell its basically a 5800x but with a slightly lower base clock. The few reviews I read basically but the performance within 2~3% of a 5800x.
It's 30.000 yen which is cheap in USD but the yen isn't worth shit at the moment...
I was thinking about getting something like this
5700x
Asus TUF B550 (or maybe save ~30 bucks and get an asrock or gigabyte with the same b550 chip?)
16gb 3600mhz CL18 (would it be worth it spending double for 32gb cl16?)
Scythe mugen5 or fuma2 because they are cheap. Haven't really done any research on them but they look fine.
Samsung 980 pro 1tb (or can I get a gen3 nvme and still be good when direct storage etc hit?)
Ignoring the ssd, because I don't absolutely need that at the moment, those parts will be about 50 bucks more than a XSX. Is there a good chance such a system will have no problems hitting 60fps on the cpu side for the next 4 years or so?