Computer Upgrade AMD to Intel

[slowmover]

Hello to everyone.I need some help to choose the best parts with the money i can spend to do a correct upgrade.I am flying only with VR Oculus Rift S so i need a good pc.

 

My current set up is

Ryzen 7 1700 to 3.8ghz

Rog Strix B350-F-Gaming

G.Skill TridentZ RGB 16GB DDR4-3200MHz 16CAS

Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250gb ( main drive run windows)

Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500gb ( only for DCS )

Nvidia MSI GTX 1080ti

 

I want to spend about 700-800euro.I will choose Intel CPU and not AMD.

I am between Intel Core i7-10700K or Intel Core i5-10600K with liquid cooler

New motherboard

New ram at 32gb

And i will keep same GPU and Hard drives.

 

I know that ED is going to make a new engine to take advantage more cores on DCS but now i have the time to spend the time i want to DCS so that is why i am choosing the Intel.

 

What do you suggest?

[dr_hippo]

Hi,

 

I would stick with AMD and spend my money on Memory and GPU.

I play with a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32gb ram at 3200.

My Graphic card is a RX580 witch is the bottelneck. Nevertheless I have quite good performance in VR.

I just wait for the new AMD or NVIDIA GPU en hope it is a big jump for VR.

 

No matter if you going for a new AMD or INTEL cpu with new memory you GPU is going to be the bottelneck in VR

[reece146]

Will your motherboard suppprt ~3800XT?

 

If yes then I'd just upgrade CPU and upgrade RAM to 32 GB or more.

 

Existing RAM speed/CL is fine - add more.

 

GPU is fine - revisit in 2021 after new AMD and NV GPUs have dropped/settled.

 

If your motherboard won't support newer AMD CPUs then 10600K or 10700K is fine. 10700K is faster but both can be overclocked to 10900k levels. Number of cores today is not a big deal but that might change in 2021-2022 and it doesn't hurt to spread non-DCS processes around to more cores to lighten the load on all cores. IME coming from heavily overclocked i7-3770k the 10700k doesn't need to be overclocked - not CPU limited running at 4k.

 

New CPUs are coming in 2021 but there's always new CPUs coming. If you are a heavy DCS user buy now and get the value today. If you can do an incremental upgrade via 3800XT do that otherwise new z490+CPU.

 

New Intel Tiger Lake might be less power hungry and be a good upgrade. With all the optimization Intel has done in recent history on 14nm I'm not convinced AMD will ever catch Intel on single core performance once Intel gets to 7nm (Tiger is 10nm).That's 2021 though and current AMD XT processors are plenty fast.

 

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

 

 

 

HTH

Edited August 25, 2020 by reece146

[slowmover]

Hi,

 

I would stick with AMD and spend my money on Memory and GPU.

I play with a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32gb ram at 3200.

My Graphic card is a RX580 witch is the bottelneck. Nevertheless I have quite good performance in VR.

I just wait for the new AMD or NVIDIA GPU en hope it is a big jump for VR.

 

No matter if you going for a new AMD or INTEL cpu with new memory you GPU is going to be the bottelneck in VR

 

My GPU now is great no need to upgrafe it yet.It can handle for sure 1 or even 2 years.CPU and RAM is the problem.CPU is very low at ghz only 3.8

[LucShep]

Yeah, I tend to agree with others here.

Take advantage of the good things you already have, and just change (or add, like the RAM) what is not.

 

Personally, I'd try to inspect if your motherboard can accept with a bios update a Ryzen 7 3700X or 3800X (look around for deals, ~300,00 Euros), as it'll be quite the kick up in performance compared to yours (yep, it's two generations above of hardware, and a LOT more performant). And add more 16GB of RAM memory (if you have 2 sticks, get two more of the same, about 170,00 Euros?) for a total of 32GB.

 

If such a CPU upgrade isn't possible, then yeah, Intel i5 10600K and Z490 motherboard is the next best option IMO (Asus Prime Z490-P or MSI Z490-A Pro are best options for the money), again as said with the increased RAM capacity.

Sure, i7 10700K would be really sweet (like the i9 9900K has been) but there doesn't seem to be any difference with it against an i5 10600K for gaming/simming. Even better if overclocked to 5.0Ghz (very easy), enjoy the beastly IPC.

 

Unless you have needs for something more specific, such as rendering and etc, I can't see any real need for more than these mentioned CPUs in the coming two or three years for great performance, be it for plain hardcore simulator genres, or AAA games. High IPC will still be king for a very long time, I think.

Edited August 25, 2020 by LucShep

[BitMaster]

I would hold my breath for a little bit more and wait for the new AMD CPUs.

 

If rumors are only have true it should be at least on par in single core performance and maybe even some steps ahead.

[Gladman]

Clock speed is really all that matters here. The new tech in the 10900 is not likely to give you any more than a couple FPS.

I'd go with a 9900K, OC it, and care on. It'll be less expensive now and with overclocking, as capable as the 10900 (specifically to DCS).