I5-2500K to a Ryzen 5 1600 -- Thoughts

[hjordan836]

Hi all.

Thoughts on upgrading from an I5-2500K overclocked to 3.9ghz to a new Ryzen 5 1600 and OC it to 3.8-4.0 as well.

I have been hanging on to this sandybridge for years say when I have a reason I will upgrade. While I will likely only see moderate increases in gaming with Ryzen 5. I really like the idea of 6 core/12 thread and 16MB of L3 cache. In my mind that justifies the upgrade.

Has anyone made the jump? Thoughts on this upgrade?
Thanks for the input.

 

[dudeman509]

Like you said, you probably will not see huge increases in gaming, BUT you'll have a lot more power at your disposal for whatever you want to do with it (streaming, video editing, multitasking between 2348923472 things, whatever you like). If that's worth it to you, I really don't think you can go wrong with one.

 

[chemmajorp53]

I'd do it. You'll get a bit more gaming performance, but you'll also get PCIe 3.0, USB 3.0+, DDR4 support, lower power consumption, extra cores/threads for when you need them, M.2 support, SATA 3 support, etc. I mean the processor upgrade is fine but you'll get a lot of new features with the platform as well. I have a 4670k and am still considering buying either a 1600 or a 1700X (Microcenter deals) just in case I decide to start streaming for fun. Probably won't do it but we'll see. I haven't seen anyone say anything bad about the 1600 and, if you can get the RAM to 2933 or 3200MHz and the CPU to 3.9GHz or more, you will have a solid gaming/streaming/workstation computer.

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

I think it's a worthy upgrade.

 

[Trenchcoat]

Hi all.

Thoughts on upgrading from an I5-2500K overclocked to 3.9ghz to a new Ryzen 5 1600 and OC it to 3.8-4.0 as well.

I have been hanging on to this sandybridge for years say when I have a reason I will upgrade. While I will likely only see moderate increases in gaming with Ryzen 5. I really like the idea of 6 core/12 thread and 16MB of L3 cache. In my mind that justifies the upgrade.

Has anyone made the jump? Thoughts on this upgrade?
Thanks for the input.

Hiya! I'm also running the same processor but at a significantly higher frequency. For gaming you are better off going for a more agressive overclock but if you like to stream your gaming or are into video editing it might be worth replacing.

The trouble is that benchmarks show that higher frequency is usually better for games.

I am also waiting for a worthy cpu upgrade.

 

[Chugalug_]

I reckon unless you're doing heavy rendering and editing the i5 will hold on for another generation in terms of gaming.
Wait until Coffee Lake if not doing any video work.

 

[hdgaming]

There are a few things you can do here.

-You can OC the i5 to 4.4ghz, that should be easy to get to on Sandy bridge and see how that works for you.
-You can try to get an i7 3770k? They can be found second hand for a decent price and will perform good in gaming.
-Or you can get the R5 1600 which will ofcourse be a nice upgrade since the processor is much stronger than your i5.

What gpu do you have? Maybe that's the problem here and a simple gpu upgrade will do wonders for you?

 

[synphul]

If you have a need to upgrade for streaming or rendering tasks then sure. If not, it could be a pile of money for an upgrade that won't do much for you personally. chemmajorp53 is right, there are newer features with a newer setup. Again though, newer features are only a perk if they help you. Are you interested in using an m.2 drive? Do you have anything that will benefit from sata3? If not then they will offer 0 performance, if you do then they will be an upgrade.

If you are interested in rendering or video encoding, 6c and 12t (cache means little) will benefit you and you'll see a noticeable improvement. If you continue to game and read emails, 6c/12t may not do much for you. Even with an endless budget and a 10c/20t i7, same applies. If the things you do generally don't push your cpu to 100% or can't make use of the additional cores then 6 cores will be sitting there twiddling their thumbs (or running at 5% occasionally).

Are you running win10? If you're still using win7 or 8.1 it would be time to upgrade if considering kaby lake or ryzen as both are only officially supported on win10. It would be a good idea to weigh out what you currently use the pc for, what you may use it for in the future and whether or not the updated features and additional cores will do for you. Nothing worse than spending significant money on an upgrade, booting up a fresh install of windows and then looking at your email or playing a game you're familiar with and saying to yourself 'well, that was anticlimactic'.