Upgrade your Ryzen 7600X/7700X or 13600K/13700K processor for better performance.
Upgrade your Ryzen 7600X/7700X or 13600K/13700K processor for better performance.
Hey everyone, my niece is looking to upgrade her PC after her motherboard failed last weekend. She’s considering swapping her current setup—Ryzen 9 5900X on a Strix B550-F with four 8GB DDR4 3600CL modules—with my motherboard and CPU. I’m thinking about purchasing a 13700K or 7700X for myself, but she’s still on the same budget. I could buy a 32GB DDR4 3600 kit for around 160-170€, while a 32GB DDR5 6000CL 36 kit is about 200€. The price gap seems significant, especially since I’m planning to upgrade soon if needed. For gaming, she mainly plays AAA titles and multiplayer games like CS:GO, Battlefield 2042, Call of Duty, PUBG, League of Legends, and Valorant. Competitive play is mostly on LOL and CS:GO. Thermal concerns are minimal thanks to my existing cooler. What do you think about the options?
You'd wait for the new X3D CPU since it's expected to be significantly quicker. In gaming, the improvement won't be noticeable at 1440p resolution.
I felt drawn to... Comparing DDR5 and DDR4, the value I could gain would be using her old RAM and keeping my 3600 cl 16 processor.
Well if you're going to be using the B550/5900X in its own build, may as well keep the RAM with that system since you know it works well. So that means you should probably get new RAM anyway. You're untethered by any old parts. IMO you can't really go wrong either way. They both are currently really strong. I would go Intel/DDR5 if you mainly game but sometimes do production work. They are powerhouses but I wouldn't want to run them full power all day. I would go Ryzen if you only game. The 7600x and 7700x are kind of shitty relatively in production, but they game really well. I would go Ryzen 7950x if you mostly do production work. It costs a bit more than the 13900K, and isn't that much faster, but it is way more efficient. As for the games you play, all of the modern CPUs will play at such ridiculously high framerate it really does not matter. I went with Intel 13th gen since in the game I mainly play (FF14), the Intel chips vastly outperform the Ryzen counterparts.
I mainly play games, sometimes making videos occasionally. What bothers me about Intel is that the LGA 1700 might be outdated by the 14th generation, while AM5 seems to last longer. I think swapping the CPU could give better performance in the future, which is why I’m a bit confused xD
It relies on how often you plan to replace your components. If you expect yearly or bi-annual upgrades, AM5 is ideal. For those who upgrade every five years or less, the motherboard upgrade route offers little benefit.