Another Ryzen Discussion

I’ve been reading other threads about the Ryzen 5000 series. Right now I have a 2700x and I want to upgrade to the new generation. I just want other people’s opinions. I want to make the jump in the next year or so to 4k

Build List:
Asus Prime X470
Ryzen 2700x under h110i @4.0 ghz
Corsair Vengeance 32 gb @3200mhz
EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra
EVGA G3 1000w PSU
Acer XB271HU 2560x1440p

Games I play: Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed, FF14, Battlefront 2, Wolfenstein, Doom, Total War, Civilization sometimes, and other visually appealing games.
I also like to have YouTube or Netflix going on if I’m playing FF14, or Battlefront
Part of me feels like this isn’t the right time, to wait for the next generation so price can come down. Wait to see what intel releases, but this is my hobby soooooo, ya know?

Well once you move to 4k you will only be straining the GPU more alleviating the CPU. So really don’t have to if you don’t want to. I would get the 4k monitor you want and see how your system does and wait on the ridiculous pricing on these chips to go down. Also give Asus sometime to put out a decent BIOS to support 5000 series on that motherboard.

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That’s more GPU than CPU dependant. You may get a frame or two or you may not… I wouldn’t change the CPU if your goal is 4k.

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Parroting the other’s advice, with a little more future ideas… tl;dr you’ve got a good system for your use case, hold off on rig upgrades:

  • GPU will be the bottleneck in 4K gaming, so it’s best to hold off if you already have the 3080. That’s where you’ll get the most gains when running in 4K, as the GPU takes more of the proportional load when resolution scales up.
  • (when you upgrade your CPU) AM5 socket is just around the corner. This means that the 5000 series CPUs are the last chip in this chipset, which comes with a tradeoff. On one hand, it’ll probably end up being the most stable for the chipset (just based off how long they’ve been developing on this set), but it also leaves you with no upgrade path past 5000 series CPU/Mobos. This may limit other future things as well, like future advances in PCIE, bus interfaces, USB, etc.
  • If you are REALLY keen for an upgrade, wait I’d say about 4-6 months. Chip prices in general seem inflated, so even a 3000 series CPU is expensive right now. I’d say avoid this upgrade for now and just be patient. AM5 is coming end of this year (probably) and people will sell their AM4 stuff to be part of the AM5 gang.
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I am running my Nvidia 3080 card on an Intel 5960X. From 2015. It works great in 4K.

There are very few games that would gain enough speed from a CPU upgrade for it to matter.

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Entertaining Zen3, would also also introduce a higher freq. limit for RAM, to really exploit Infinity Fabric [meaning another component to consider in the mix]. Pricing at the moment, will be STEEP [on what is physically available, which is menial against demands]. Making the 4K push, will be more pressure, against your GPU - but a strong CPU would help in thread loads/balancing [THAT be reliant, on a per-game basis]

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This is why I come here, thanks for the insight. Any monitor suggestions?

you should probably aim for a more reasonable resolution like a 1440p. If you need more screen real estate, probably get a widescreen?

Yup this pretty much.

If topic starter is looking for slightly better performance,
at 1440p with his said gpu.
Then a cpu upgrade to a 5000 series could be worth it.
A 5800X or if he could afford a 5900X.

The extra cores of 5900X aren´t really going to do that much for gaming of course.
So if it´s only for mainly gaming, then the 5800X would be a good choice.

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