If you have an Asus motherboard, there is something called multicore enhancement which extends the turbo boost from one core and applies it to all cores. I am pretty sure that other board partners have something similar.
You create an usb drive with memtest86, boot from the drive and run the test.
Pretty much. Over here also about 50 euros lower price at least when I bought mine. Also future upgradability to Zen 3 next year.
Something like a Ryzen 3600/i5 9600k, 1660Ti/Super (maybe 2060 Super if you want to keep it for a few years), 16Gb RAM.
No. games don't require a bunch of threads or hyperthreading.
Either brand is fine. Intel is going to give you better performance in gaming and Ryzen will improve your performance in productivity. Either brand can be used for the other task as well.
Look it up on reputable youtube channels like Gamers Nexus or Hardware Unboxed. The tl;dr is that the difference in gaming is negligible with Zen 2 (or null since you'll most likely be gpu bound well before that point) and, yes, SMT/hyperthreading is recommended since games do use those threads and will be taking advantage of them even more in the coming years. The 3700X is a really good gaming/productivity cpu, but in terms of value the 3600 is unbeatable.
You should get either a Ryzen 3700X or an Intel 9700K. Those are the two recommended modern gaming CPUs. The 9700K is currently the best gaming processor you can get for your money at $300+. But it has 8 cores/8 threads and some people prefer 8C/16T found inside the 3700X in case games make more use of multithreading in the future.
New builds are mostly deciding between the 3600/9600K and the 3700X/9700K tiers. If your goal is to keep costs low than you should get either a Ryzen 3600 or an Intel 9600K. If you are mostly gaming on your computer than the 9600K would be the recommend purchase. Some people downgrade to a i5-9400F to make their build even cheaper.
If you're looking to make it cheaper, the AIO water cooling is completely unnecessary for an AMD Ryzen - they include a perfectly adequate air cooler.
thanks for the input. does the air cooler get 'loud' by any chance? if not, would make sense to just use the stock cooler.
The 3600X does, but the 3600 comes with one smaller, so I think at least for people who get a 3600 to OC it and match the 3600X it would be better getting something at least as good as the cooler that comes with 3600X or a bit better like say a $36 Cooler Master and whatnot.
Looking at next gen consoles, I wouldn't buy a cpu with less than 8c&16t.
Yes, the 9700k is a bit faster in gaming, but in the long run it will be better to have those 2 Xtra cores.
73C is not hot enough to throttle so it was working normally at that temperature as far as the CPU is concerned.
You can go cheaper that the cheapest build in the OP by switching the 2400G for an Athlon 200GE.
Literally a 10 year old system with an AMD Phenom and a Radeon GPU. Thanks you two btw but I think I will still go with a 2400G in this case.
Yeah, Ive made a mistake. The 9700k has 8c8t, thought it was a 6c. My bad
No we don't. Plus the same people who say that 8 threads in the 9700K isn't enough will recommend the 3600 as a value purchase in their next breath even though it only has 6 cores. That's how you know that it's nothing but personal bias.
There is also a 2200G and various options of first gen Ryzen like the R3 1300X, but those would require a dedicated gpu, since they don't have an integrated one like the G models.
I think we're going to see that evolution accelerate as the next gen consoles come out. Both will be AMD-based, and the rumor mill is that both will be 8 cores/16 threads. If that bears out, you're going to see a lot more games on PC start to use as many threads as they can.
And the 9600K is significantly better than it for gaming performance, at the same price.
