Help with upgrade dilemma

amittalkin

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Hi, recently I posted a thread to suggest upgrade from my i7-6700k which died while delidding. Well, I still haven't upgraded yet. So the problem is that....

I am on now spare Pentium G4400 + 16GB RAM and 1080TI and 4k monitor. So obviously G4400 is very slow at playing games at 4k. However I play Dota 2 now mostly, which runs fine at 4k with my spec. But it renders multitasking very slow and sometimes even mouse cursor starts lagging. Now I want to upgrade, but I am confused, either wait for Black Friday and Grab Ryzen 3600x OR waste some money and get temp. i7 6700 ES sample CPU from ali or ebay. While It will be hard to sell 6700 ES + motherboard combo in future because people will not bother buying ES version and probably I will lose money on it. I might save that money for 3600X. Other option is that I have i7-950 system on my office PC, which I am thinking to use temporarily until BlackFriday but I am not sure it is any better than G4400.

I am looking for some opinions on this matter.
 
Yes I can I think. Already using this setup for over a month now. Its just sometimes I get frustrated because of the speed. Just trying to find a temp. solution.
 
Just for the record, I pulled trigger and bought Ryzen 3600 + Gigabyte AORUS B450 Pro WiFi motherboard :).
 
I'm curious to know your thoughts on the upgrade you made?
hmm....Well I was going to buy x570 motherboard first, then I decided to go with B450 as I dont need PCIE 4.0 . Also for 3600, x570 is overkill and for less than enter level x570 motherboard I could buy decent B450 motherboard, so I went with this build.
Upgrade went well, my MB bios came flashed to F40, which supports 3rd gen Ryzen CPU. I upgraded it to latest F42C. This motherboard OC options are bit confusing. There is M.I.T. menu for OC ( which all Gigabyte boards has ) and there is again "AMD Overclocking" menu where most of MIT options get repeated. So I was confused where settings value overrides from one over other.
About CPU, it runs HOT!! I don't have CPU mounting for AM4 for my CPU waterblock ( EK Supreme HF Full Nickel ), so I made a temp.acrylic mounting for it and now trying to find new water block as this one has aged. Temp. soars up to 80c in linpack test ( because of poor mounting may be ) and while gaming it reaches up to 76c. Other issue is voltage, which reaches up to 1.5v!! I set vcore to normal in bios. I tried to lower it to -0.1v offset but then system fails to boot.
I am running 2400 Mhz Vengeance memory at 3000 Mhz CAS16. I have ordered 4000 Mhz RIPJAWS and awaiting delivery.

Overall, its a cheap and worth upgrading from my i7-6700k. Only issue is heat and overclocking.
 
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