Hey, I’ve been weighing the pro’s and cons of replacing my current laptop which works like a desktop. I definitely would appreciate the improved performance, and the performance could be improved a lot in basically every metric by upgrading to fairly recent desktop hardware.
I did some browsing on a local market and found a (supposedly factory sealed) R5 2600 for ~$100 USD. I can say with confidence this CPU would be a tremendous upgrade to my laptop’s CPU, which is probably my biggest limitation at the moment.
My thought was that I could buy the 2600 and an older entry/midrange GPU at a deal (580, 1060, or slightly better) at a deal and later upgrade those parts when the prices of reasonable upgrades drop.
I have a few questions regarding this:
Is there any indication that X570 (etc.) boards will support the next generation of Ryzen CPUs? (after 5000) Is that too hopeful?
What GPU would you recommend for a 4K 60hz TV? I’ve been driving it with a laptop 1060 (6GB) for a while now, and it definitely leaves a lot to be desired but honestly isn’t as bad as I would expect.
How “stable” are 580’s these days? I haven’t used an AMD GPU in a long time, so I don’t really know if there are any instances of the cards not “just working” in random/indie software like emulators.
Where would you suggest I look for “value” parts? What’s your idea of value when buying second hand?
What and stated was AM4 support till 2020. It is 2020. They already complained it was difficult to fit their current designs in the existing AM4 socket and that’s why there are issues running the new CPUs on the old 300 series boards.
Well, literally today there will be a review tsunami of Radeon 6000 series. At this point you will be able to compare it to the Nvidia 3000 series and 2000 series.
The thing is, 580 isn’t really much of an upgrade from what you currently have, if any. There is a huge gap between 4K worthy GPUs and 580, but I would say 5700 or whenever 3060 or 6600 come out they may fit your needs and not eat up your savings.
Well, it entirely depends. I am absolutely fine with buying second hand parts. My last system was made out of mostly used parts. I still have a few used parts in my current setup. But there are a lot of scammers out there and if you are worried, all reviewers offer value per dollar graphs. Basically what gives you the most performance for least amount of money spent.
For example, I would not describe X570 as value oriented. See B550 is much better when it comes to value. Especially considering they don’t have those screaming small chipset fans.
