Question I currently have a Ryzen 1600 msi b350 carbon GTX strix 1070 would it be worth to stck in a ryzen 3500 n just upgrade the bios?

[mchiani123]

My ryzen 5 1600 is working fine with my gtx 1070 16gb 3200 ram, i was just wondering if taking advantage of the holiday sales that i could get me a brand new cpu andn just plug it into my current mobo msi b350 carbon I kno i gotta upgrade the bios no biggie im just curious if it would work and if its worth doing naturally if there are problems then ill just save for couple months and get atleast a b450 board and suggestions?

 

[mitch074]

The biggest problem I see with this is that the B350 chipset lacks Precision Boost Overdrive 2 - as such, the 3600X won't perform as well as it should. Not by much, but the performance delta won't be as high as one would expect as it will lack a hundred MHz on single core boosting. The reduced latency, higher IPC and frequency will still make it quite a bit faster in games.
One upgrade path might be to get the CPU right now anyway, and when affordable B550 boards come out, change it and get some extra performance, stability and some more USB ports and PCI-E 4.0.

 

[Darkbreeze]

The biggest problem I see with this is that the B350 chipset lacks Precision Boost Overdrive 2 - as such, the 3600X won't perform as well as it should. Not by much, but the performance delta won't be as high as one would expect as it will lack a hundred MHz on single core boosting. The reduced latency, higher IPC and frequency will still make it quite a bit faster in games.
One upgrade path might be to get the CPU right now anyway, and when affordable B550 boards come out, change it and get some extra performance, stability and some more USB ports and PCI-E 4.0.

This.

 

[rounakr94]

Ryzen 3500 is ONLY available in prebuilt OEM machines. It is not available to the general public. The lowest current Ryzen 5 3000 series is the R5 3600. That, would definitely be a major upgrade from your R5 1600.

To the tune of about a 54% increase in single core performance and about a 61% increase in multithreaded performance. Should work fine with your B350 Gaming Pro carbon but you WILL need to have the latest BIOS version or at least one new enough to support the 3000 series SKUs.

Not really, 3500 is being sold in all Major retailers in India including Amazon.in .
I myself am looking to buy one but the bios has support for 3500x and not 3500, so waiting for a official update from Gigabyte HQ.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yes, really. If somebody is selling them via the retail channels, then they are doing it illegally. Which wouldn't really be too surprising in those regions since they are not particularly well known for following or adhering to international laws.

https://www.techspot.com/news/82802-amd-confirms-oem-only-ryzen-5-3500.html


So either you're mistaken, or what's being sold is being sold illegally.