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I believe the 2600 is incompatible with 3200 Mhz, which is why you're getting memory stability issues. If you get a 5000 series cpu, you should be able to max out your memory speed.
5600(x) is a pretty solid cpu. I have a 5600 non-x and it still works fine for all of my games. Not sure if you care, or if the price difference nowadays even makes a difference, but the 5600 is negligibly slower than the 5600x but it's cheaper. Either way, both should be pretty solid choices. 5700x is fine too, if you care about having more cores. IMO though most games don't really utilize that many cores to begin with so I don't care much for it
The x3d chips are more expensive but they're way stronger, so my understanding is that most people consider them to be worth the extra money.
The 580 GPU might be bottlenecking, my understanding is that CS2 is more visually demanding than CS1, though I don't know how visually demanding it is. The GPU market is a shitshow right now though. I think the best bang-for-your-buck gpu right now might be the 9060xt, but even then it's a pretty hefty 380 usd. If you do get a new gpu, make sure it has enough vram for your use case. IMO I would just go for 16 gb minimum nowadays
I didn't had any idea it was incompatible! I tought it was the fact that i had to buy two separate sticks cause i did a mistake ordering and bought 1x16gb instead of 2x8 and had to buy another 16gb one (same brand, same mhz and CL speed obv) and that they didnt go well together. Hope that is as you say and a new CPU will hold the 3200mhz!
About the CPU for what i've seen in my superficial research for now, 5600 and 5600x are about the same price with no big differencies, both around the 100€. For the 5700x i asked cause i found one for just 15€ more and didn't know if it makes sense to get it over the 5600x for this small of a difference, but i guess it can't hurt right? Sadly i cant afford the x3d, even if i read that they're much better :(
About the GPU, as i said to another comment i would prefer not to upgrade if not strictly necessary, as i don't need to squeeze every fps out of the cpu. If just the CPU gets me to that desidered fps, and not upgrading the GPU doesnt destroy my sistem or worse the performance of it, i can wait a few years :)
The only reason I know about the incompatibility is because I ran into the exact same issue when I was building a 2600x system with 3200 mhz memory.
If 5700x is only 15e more, you might as well get it. That seems like a good deal
For the gpu, it might make sense to look at gpu utilization. It won't tell you the entire story but it might give some clues as to whether your gpu is bottlenecking/how close it is to bottlenecking. Because it very well could be that your cpu is fine but it's actually the gpu that's limiting your performance. In which case you would rather get a gpu but not a cpu
About the gpu i'm pretty sure its not the problem cause im running a very low resolution and lowering even more doesnt improve the fps, also i lost some frames (20-25) when i enabled core isolation on windows security, so im 90% sure its a cpu thing, but i'll try to check the utilization during CS just to be sure.
Yeah i think i'll go for that 5700x, even though i will look meticously to find some x3d's deals, that would be amazing (thought i think i'll have to upgrade my hyper 212 cooler)
Thank you for your help :)