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Hey guys, please review my upgrade considerations.

Goal: good bang for the buck upgrade. No need for high end. Just a cheap but good step forward. Does my choice make sense or do you think this little step is not worth it? I am a little flexible on the budget. Is there something more valuable in that range?

Duties:

  • mostly workstation / office / many browser tabs / hobby programming (small projects) / a couple apps incl. electron apps running at the same time
  • little gaming (grand strategy). So far the GPU and RAM are ...fine, i guess. I will upgrade them some time in the future, to play KCD2
  • no video editing, almost no 3d modeling, little virtualization, no Image processing

Current system:

  • i5-7600K CPU
  • MS-7A71 mainboard
  • 16 GiB of RAM (slow 2133 MT/s)
  • Radeon RX 480 Graphics

Low cost upgrade idea:

  • AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6x 3.50GHz So.AM4 90€
    • there is a 5600X for 100€ but just 1% faster in benchmarks
  • Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2 AMD B550 So.AM4 Dual Channel DDR4 ATX Retail € 106
    • There are B550s for 10€ cheaper but this one supports my old DDR4-2133 RAMs and up to DDR4-3200

196€ for a good upgrade doesn't sound too bad. I probably need a new cooler too because of the new socket. I could get faster RAMs but figured that i would probably not feel the difference. These give me upgrade options in the future but don't cost much right now, since i hope to keep all other parts (PSU, midi tower, etc.). Is it correct, that i don't need a new PSU since the power consumption does not increase (for now)? And does the old PSU cable fit the new mainboard?

What else do i need to consider?

Thank you :-)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

If you want to play kcd2 on that system in the future without upgrading cpu then I would look for a 5700x3d or 5800x3d rather than a 5600.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The minimum requirements for kcd2 are a 2600. There's no need to go for a 5800x3d.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ah, I guess they've improved since kcd1 then. Towns could be a cpu killer in the first one.

edit: I see people mentioning kcd2 running better for them than kcd1 does, f.e.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kingdomcome/comments/1ij448t/im_shocked_how_well_the_game_runs_on_my_10_year/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

that is very good news, thank you. I was actually ok with the kcd1 performance, had decent fps at least outside of towns. If kcd2 is even better, than i should do just fine. Thanks guys!

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