Worth upgrading a 2600 with a 3600?

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Opus131

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Planning to get a 5700 XT for this build. Is the 2600 good enough to run it, or should i switch to the 3600?

BTW, i have an MSI B450 board, Carbon Pro whatever the hell it's called, and i remember reading people were having issues making the 3600 run. Was that ever fixed?
 
.5 frame difference??? I see 15 fps avg on Arma 3, other games less. I guess it depends upon what games you play, how sensitive to fps you are. I would think most on a FreeSync Monitor would not be able to tell the difference. Now if you are a Arma 3 horde, then yes it would be worth it.
 
I see some good improvements on the 1% minimum. But, we are talking about buying a whole new cpu to replace one i already have.
 
Opus131 said:
Planning to get a 5700 XT for this build. Is the 2600 good enough to run it, or should i switch to the 3600?

BTW, i have an MSI B450 board, Carbon Pro whatever the hell it's called, and i remember reading people were having issues making the 3600 run. Was that ever fixed?
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I have the 3600 and the B450 Carbon Pro AC. It was a debacle when originally released, but the new BIOS works good now. I wouldn't upgrade tho from the 2600.
 
If your just gaming nope.

But everything else, man people just dont understand getting 32mb of cache for 200 bucks.

Blows my mind at that incredible oversight. Reason I went for 3900x was 70mb of cache. Gobs of compute power man. My 3600 is much more powerful at compute work than 2600x was.
 
He's gaming, so compute ads aside it's spending $175 for not much.

My 2600 can push 180+fps in 1080p, 1440p I'm above 100fps in Brs or MW ground war keeping pace with 8700k.

Problem is when I want to record with quality or stream my framerate takes a hit.

Right now my PC has a 1700x in it 3.9ghz all core and I notice the slight fps hit compared to the 2600, but recording or streaming isn't noticeable.

I'd leave it alone, maybe upgrade your monitor to a 1440p 165hz IPS panel if you haven't done it yet.

Dell 27" 1440p panel if you are still only gaming, that one felt the best but image quality is not something I want to work on for extended periods.
 
Only gaming.

Witch means i should have probably got an intel CPU but it was so cheap. I paid 130 euros for the 2600 on a sale.
 
how does your memory perform on the 2600? The memory controller on the 3000's series are generally better... that could be a "thing" for you or not .. my 2700x wouldn't run 4x8 sticks at their rated PC3200 (2 sticks were fine but with 4 I had to run at PC3000) .. but with my 3700x, all 4 of the same sticks can run their rated speeds now.
 
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how does your memory perform on the 2600? The memory controller on the 3000's series are generally better... that could be a "thing" for you or not .. my 2700x wouldn't run 4x8 sticks at their rated PC3200 (2 sticks were fine but with 4 I had to run at PC3000) .. but with my 3700x, all 4 of the same sticks can run their rated speeds now.
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Motherboard??
 
Opus131 said:
Only gaming.

Witch means i should have probably got an intel CPU but it was so cheap. I paid 130 euros for the 2600 on a sale.
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Honestly, you're good.

If anything, scoop up a used 3700x in a year-ish..
 
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Motherboard??
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ASRock X470 Master SLI/ac .. my wife couldn't run 4 sticks on her ASUS B-350 Prime and her 2200g .. I upgraded her to a 3400g (it's more of a modified 2000 series I know) and can run 4 sticks at their rated speed (PC3200) now. My 2700x just might of had a dud memory controller in it because it's now in my daughters ASRock B350 Fatal1lity Gaming ITX mobo and with her 2200g she could run the memory at PC3000 (rated speed) but with the 2700x now, she was getting random BSOD's and I had to dial the memory back to 2600 (2 x 16gb sticks that I originally ran on my 7700k setup)
 
ThreeDee said:
ASRock X470 Master SLI/ac .. my wife couldn't run 4 sticks on her ASUS B-350 Prime and her 2200g .. I upgraded her to a 3400g (it's more of a modified 2000 series I know) and can run 4 sticks at their rated speed (PC3200) now. My 2700x just might of had a dud memory controller in it because it's now in my daughters ASRock B350 Fatal1lity Gaming ITX mobo and with her 2200g she could run the memory at PC3000 (rated speed) but with the 2700x now, she was getting random BSOD's and I had to dial the memory back to 2600 (2 x 16gb sticks that I originally ran on my 7700k setup)
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So even on the B350 platform, Matisse helps running 4 sticks @ 3200....?

Awesome, considering I'm finally putting together my 3600x/Asrock B350 Pro4 setup this weekend. (knowing now that I can drop another 80 bucks at random to up myself to 32gb, instead of sweating a 150+ upgrade down the line)

Shout-out to Rvenger for the board hook-up btw!!
 
I bought a 3800X cheaper than I paid for my 2600X,3600X and will be buying 3900X if it is cheaper when 3950X is released.

@Op
Going from 2600X to 3600X in gaming is not worth the price but you do get a small performance bump in some games above 1920x1080 .The 3800X there was no noticeable difference in gaming between 3600X vs 3800X.

So with the AMD 5700XT there will be no noticeable difference in gaming and the 2600 should be fine.

For memory it is all in the CPU as mentioned above.Do not sweat not buying Intel CPU,the 2600 CPU is a good CPU for gaming.
 
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Google Mobo memory topology before assuming 4 sticks will work.

I know my 1700x and 2600 work fine on my buddy's ch6 4x16 Corsair lpx 3200 at XMP.

Gigabyte x470 master....not so much.
 
somebrains said:
Google Mobo memory topology before assuming 4 sticks will work.

I know my 1700x and 2600 work fine on my buddy's ch6 4x16 Corsair lpx 3200 at XMP.

Gigabyte x470 master....not so much.
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I have 4 sticks of Corsair 3600 running at 3800 with XMP enabled and the fabric clock locked to the memory at 1900. No issues what so ever with 4 sticks. Had 4 sticks of 3000 running XMP at 3200 with my 2600 build before switching them out after I upgraded to the 3900x, on both a B450 board and an X570 board.
 
If all you do is game then you might be better off overall by upgrading to a 2700X. That 33% increase in cores might benefit you more in the long run than a ~10% increase in speed core-for-core.
 
If the OP decided to start streaming or recording using cpu rendering, sure.
Maybe the OP decided only to play Source engine games, more cores are supposed to be better.
Otherwise sit tight with what you have.

Onboard audio really bugged me, so I picked up a ZX nib for $43 today.
Little quality of life things like positional audio that doesn’t suck is huge, maybe get a new headset.
 
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