[SOLVED] AMD Ryzen 7 3700x and GTX 1070 Ti?

[Natan_Friedman]

Hello,

I currently have a GTX 1070 Ti with a Ryzen 5 2600x and 16 RAM. I am looking to upgrade my CPU and was considering the Ryzen 7 3700x. Is this a good combination? And would I have to overclock anything if I upgraded? I pretty much only play Rust.

 

[Cem Goker]

If you are satisfied with your current hardware, why not wait for the Ryzen 4000 series to launch around September? Hopefully by that time, you will be able to save some money and get the 4700X. My friend has a Ryzen 5 2600 with a GTX 1070 Ti and it still games perfectly fine for him so you should be fine. Who knows, you could save up some cash and even get to upgrade your GPU once Nvidia's Ampere GPU are out as well.

 

[Natan_Friedman]

If you are satisfied with your current hardware, why not wait for the Ryzen 4000 series to launch around September? Hopefully by that time, you will be able to save some money and get the 4700X. My friend has a Ryzen 5 2600 with a GTX 1070 Ti and it still games perfectly fine for him so you should be fine. Who knows, you could save up some cash and even get to upgrade your GPU once Nvidia's Ampere GPU are out as well.

Because I am not satisfied with my current hardware, and - not to sound impatient - but I'd rather not wait 5 months.

 

[Cem Goker]

Because I am not satisfied with my current hardware, and - not to sound impatient - but I'd rather not wait 5 months.

Then you can go ahead and get the 3700X. You don't need to overclock the 3700X as its designed to be at its limits already. Where you should really start saving some money is for Nvidia's Ampere GPU lineup and have your 1070Ti upgraded as well as it will start aging in a year or two from now.

 

[drea.drechsler]

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I currently have a GTX 1070 Ti with a Ryzen 5 2600x and 16 RAM. I am looking to upgrade my CPU and was considering the Ryzen 7 3700x. Is this a good combination? And would I have to overclock anything if I upgraded? I pretty much only play Rust.

Doing that upgrade depends more on your motherboard...which is it? You'd have to be sure you're running a Ryzen 3000 compatible BIOS, one with AGESA 1004B is recommended.

However, aside from being satisfied with your current performance you should know that upgrading to even a 3700X probably won't provide you any significant performance improvement if just for a games. For that, you'd probably benefit more from a GPU upgrade.

Overclocking a Ryzen 3000 is pretty much pointless and usually results in reducing performance at the lightly threaded, bursty workloads games present. And worse, has been difficult to do without risking processor life for that very little performance improvement.