[SOLVED] CPU upgrade

[KarolisLTS]

Hello, I'm currently using i5 6600 (non K) with GTX 1080, that I've bought almost a year ago. I've been pretty happy with this build, but in some big AAA games like AC Odyssey, GTA V, BF5, there was slight bottleneck. It wasn't groundbreaking or something like that, but at some CPU intensive moments it was pretty irritating. And with new generation of games coming, I've been thinking about upgrading CPU. There were few choices, but the most eye-catching was AMD Ryzen 5 3600X which in my opinion is pretty good in performance and price (about 200 dollars). But the problem is, that my motherboard is ASUS B250M-PLUS, which is pretty old and doesn't support the newer CPUs, so the only way to properly upgrade CPU is to upgrade MBD too. So I've started checking for those and most popular that popped up were MSI B450 Tomahawk Max and Asus ROG Strix B450-F. My questions would be, if it's worth upgrading CPU to 3600X, and which MBD would be better? And overall is it worth to upgrade those thing at all at the moment?

 

[Lutfij]

Since you can't overclock on your platform anyway, jumping onboard to a Z series 10th gen platform or the current Ryzen platform will do you wonders.

Just for the sake of reference and to understand what can and cannot be done, we'll need to know your specs for the current build.

Please include/list your specs like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
OS:

Include the age of the PSU since I;m assuming you're going to recycle that for the new parts.

 

[KarolisLTS]

Since you can't overclock on your platform anyway, jumping onboard to a Z series 10th gen platform or the current Ryzen platform will do you wonders.

Just for the sake of reference and to understand what can and cannot be done, we'll need to know your specs for the current build.

Please include/list your specs like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
OS:

Include the age of the PSU since I;m assuming you're going to recycle that for the new parts.

CPU - i5 6600
Motherboard - ASUS B250M-PLUS
Ram - Hyperx Fury 4x4GB 2400MHz DDR4 CL15
SSD - Kingstom V300 120GB and Adata XPG SX8200 PRO 256GB M.2
HDD - Seagate Barracuda 3TB
GPU - GTX 1080 AORUS Xtreme Edition 8G
PSU - EVGA BQ 650W, 80 PLUS Bronze, age about 3 years
OS - Windows 10

 

[dorsai]

Definitely worth the upgrade IMO.

Both the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max and Asus ROG Strix B450-F have relatively weak VRM on them though they can handle 6 and 8 core chips ok. If I was buying today, and was thinking about future upgrades, I would go for a B550 board since most have much more robust VRM implementations and can take pretty much any chip thrown at them without issues. HardwareUnboxed does some very good VRM testing on their Youtube channel...I would highly recommend watching their videos on B450 and B550 before deciding on a purchase. This one is their review on budget B550 boards

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuPH9pCCK-E