Everything comes down to price, so it makes no sense to buy a much more expensive 5600x.
You will also be able to upgrade to rocket lake down the line if you so desire, so in that regard AM4 and LGA1200 has equal upgradeability, unless you wish for more than 10 cores in which case AM4 wins.
Yeah absolutely keep it. It will make a fine system that will be good for a while yet. It is perfect for what you want and as you point out you got a great deal. You have the piece in hand now, or soon but it is assured, where as you might not have the AMD parts for a while or at a good price.
I mean give it a couple years and the 5600X is going to still actually be useable, whereas the intel chip is as good as it will get, maybe a tiny firmware bump, but with so many intrusions possible on the chip… ugh, any microcode updates are going to swamp an intel chip.
I mean shit Pentium M’s used to be ok ish for laptops and mini PC’s, but then you had AMD64 on the other side at the time and you can see why intel just did a pentium 3 refresh and dumped all their bad tech as fast as possible to try and get core out.
Personally, and actually in many people’s opinions, AMD is the new standard. Just go with them.
My point in that comparison is the other “team” was ahead in tech, but intel was in more machines because market share. Just like now, as a matter of fact. And AMD took over for a while till about the phenom and it flipped.
I’m not a big fan of waiting on unreleased, or newly released but probably unavailable hardware. If there’s a specific reason for wanting specific hardware, then sure waiting for that makes sense, but otherwise just build what you need with what you can get now and you’ll probably be fine.
Keep what you saved on the CPU, and put it towards a bigger SSD for more storage, or a faster GPU. At 1080p though, I wouldn’t go bonkers on the GPU unless you plan on keeping it for a number of years.
Should basically be fine yes.
Those 5600X cpu’s won’t draw that much current.
So most B550 boards should be perfectly fine,
it’s mainly a matter of features you would need.
Of course with Ryzen 9 cpu’s it is kinda a different story, but that’s irrelevant.
But like i said if you already own that 10600K then i would probably stick with that.
Because that would be the cheapest.
Not to add to your projected costs but if you want “the best” from the 5600x and arguably the 3600 as well I would be aiming more for 3600MHz ram just to eek out the maximum performance.
The Intel one does not care so much and is more about raw clocks. Where AMD systems want a far more balanced all round system to to work together.
I suppose it doesn’t really matter too much if you got ryzen 5000 or stick with intel 1000000000000000 series since you are going to be realistically bound by GPU bottleneck anyway
The Intel platform gives me headaches. Z490 is absurdly priced, B460 does not allow running memory at rated speeds, why did I buy into Intel? I despise their practices and yet here I am. What am I doing with my life
I have set my eyes on the MSI MAG B460M MORTAR motherboard.
What do you think about it?
If I were to go with B460, which RAM would be better (16GB, 2 sticks, same price)?
2666MHz CL13
3000MHz CL15
3200MHz CL16
I should probably rephrase that. Does B460 allow for RAM latency adjustment? Will a B460 board default to 2666MHz if an i5 is installed, even an unlocked one, or will it use 2933MHz (max supported with an i7/i9)?
The manual states there is an OC menu entry in the BIOS but I do not trust it to work That is why I am asking.
All opinions are welcome and appreciated.
That is why I am asking.