I was thinking of upgrading my Ryzen 3 1300x to an Ryzen 7 1700 or an 1700x.
Should i do the upgrade and is it worth the price?
Should i do the upgrade and is it worth the price?
CPU for running Stellaris
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Generally for games it's almost only single core performance that matters, as long as you don't run it together with other heavy application. So go for that.
^^That.
Multitasking is something that works wonderfully for Server Applications.
But game are just not a Pleasingly Multithreadable application. The bottleneck will always be the main thread that advances the game tick.
For Paradox games? No. That's going to have practically zero effect on performance, they're all bound by single core performance.
Get an i5 9600k, it smashes Ryzen on single core performance, and six cores is the most you'll need for multi-threaded games. Eight core CPUs are still a ways off from being worth it for gaming.
Get an i5 9600k, it smashes Ryzen on single core performance, and six cores is the most you'll need for multi-threaded games. Eight core CPUs are still a ways off from being worth it for gaming.
the upgrade to intel means a new motherboard as well, where with Ryzen you just drop the chip in place as its the same socket. As for the game running better, probably not as the clock speeds per thread are so close. But the question becomes what else are you doing with your machine. If its just gaming then at the moment that specific upgrade in the op will not matter as its only a 100 MHz uplift on your CPU. If you do any other things like streaming, editing, Photoshop the R7 is a cool upgrade.
IMO though, if you can wait, look at the new Ryzen 3000 chips coming in a few months if you really want to upgrade. Even if its just to the newer Ryzen 3 chip (or Ryzen 5) as they will be faster than your 1300x and you will probably get a core uplift as well. Just make sure your motherboard Bios can be updated for the newer generation chip before buying and then just drop it in as its still the AM4 socket.
IMO though, if you can wait, look at the new Ryzen 3000 chips coming in a few months if you really want to upgrade. Even if its just to the newer Ryzen 3 chip (or Ryzen 5) as they will be faster than your 1300x and you will probably get a core uplift as well. Just make sure your motherboard Bios can be updated for the newer generation chip before buying and then just drop it in as its still the AM4 socket.
This is correct, if you have an AM4 motherboard already I would strongly advise waiting for the 3000 series. Single-threaded performance is apparently on par with Intel's latest stuff minimum. But if money is no object, I guarantee a 9900k will absolutely kill it compared to the 1300x.