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Im looking for an Upgrade for my PC at the moment and can't decide between ryzen 5 2600(x) and 7 2700(x).

Now if i know that AMD is Planning to release the zen2 in May(?) I think I have to buy the 5 2600 because of the price fall at release.

I also need any Tips for a good Mainboard :)

[tormeh]

Gaming: 2600X

Workstation: 2700

Only a select few games are able to use more than 6 cores, and then only in some situations. For compilation and other workstation tasks the 8-cores (and more) are king, but they're expensive, so unless you have money to blow, go for the 2700.

[shmerl]

> Only a select few games are able to use more than 6 cores

Poorly designed older games. Modern games should be able to use all cores, because Vulkan is available. Something like dxvk for example is using as many cores as reasonable for compiling Vulkan pipelines.

See its config Wiki (dxvk.numCompilerThreads parameter) : https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki/Configuration

So more cores can help for gaming, no doubt. Just depends on the use case.

[vardump]

> Only a select few games are able to use more than 6 cores...

Funny, its not many years ago people said games can use just 1 core, then 2 cores, 4... and now 6. Isn't it likely this progression will continue?

Work-stealing queue design in games can use as many cores as you can throw at it (at least until memory bottleneck).

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Yeah it will be for gaming ;)

And what is with the diff between 2600 and non x? I think I need an aftermarket cooler for both variants .. and the 2600 (non x) are cheaper in Power consumption and the clock losses are acceptable, or not?

And a b450 Mainboard will also be good enough? Im using a Nvidia 1060 6gb graphic Card.

[Narishma]

I don't think you need an aftermaker cooler unless you plan to overclock the CPU.

[noir_lord]

I have the 2700X and love it unless AMD release a 16/32 zen 2 at a decent price I’ll be keeping this until post AM4 so at least 2021.

It’s an excellent machine as is the 1700X I have at work.

Honestly day to day for dev I can’t tell the difference between the 1700X and the 2700X.