Should I upgrade my CPU?

[incorporate]

Hello,

I just recently gotten back into streaming. My Current Build is

CPU - AMD FX-8350 Black Edition
CPU Cooler - Corsair H60
Graphic Card - Radeon RX580
PSU - Corsair CM750
RAM - Ballstix Sport 16GB DDR3
Motherboard - Will Update Later.
Case - NZXT S340

I was thinking about Replacing the CPU,RAM,MOBO with
Ryzen 5 1600x
MSI B350 Tomahawk Board
EVGA Super SC 16GB DDR4-3000

Would this improve the gaming Quality while streaming?

p.s Hopefully receiving a GTX 1080 for christmas but that is not set in stone.


trying to improve the performance overall for streaming and Gaming at the same time

 

[Themastererr]

It will most definitely help. You should receive a 20-40% increase in gaming performance depending on the title. When you increase your game performance, you increase the visual quality for your viewers. In my opinion that's a win win for both of you.

The extra threads from Ryzen help you run your stream in the background without capping out on CPU usage.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Hello,

I just recently gotten back into streaming. My Current Build is

CPU - AMD FX-8350 Black Edition
CPU Cooler - Corsair H60
Graphic Card - Radeon RX580
PSU - Corsair CM750
RAM - Ballstix Sport 16GB DDR3
Motherboard - Will Update Later.
Case - NZXT S340

I was thinking about Replacing the CPU,RAM,MOBO with
Ryzen 5 1600x
MSI B350 Tomahawk Board
EVGA Super SC 16GB DDR4-3000

Would this improve the gaming Quality while streaming?

p.s Hopefully receiving a GTX 1080 for christmas but that is not set in stone.


trying to improve the performance overall for streaming and Gaming at the same time

Yes all those choices are very good , will help for sure , I would get some memory from the QVL list.

 

[ARICH5]

absolutely, going from the poor single core performance of the old FX cpu to the better core performance of the ryzen is like night and day. your upgrade would be great but dont forget to do a new install of windows afterwards.

 

[Stealthman80]

I upgraded from an 8350 to a 1600 like 6 months ago. i'm running 1440p on my rx480 so the difference in gaming isnt huge but the cpu itself is over twice as fast in straight benchmarks. during gaming im only at like 25% cpu usage. My wifes pc has an R3 1200 upgraded from a fx6100 with a new rx580 at 1080P and its faster then the fx8350 alone. If your streaming the difference will be huge with the 1600x

 

[incorporate]

IF i upgrade to a 1600x, would it affect the GTX 1080? I heard they won't work together?

 

[Stealthman80]

IF i upgrade to a 1600x, would it affect the GTX 1080? I heard they won't work together?

Where did you hear that? Any video card will work with and cpu. Just look up cpu reviews on youtube most of them use a 1080 for gaming tests

 

[incorporate]

IF i upgrade to a 1600x, would it affect the GTX 1080? I heard they won't work together?

Where did you hear that? Any video card will work with and cpu. Just look up cpu reviews on youtube most of them use a 1080 for gaming tests

From a couple of friends, Me Personally i didn't think it was true... I just wanted to confirm itself. Now granted they are intel fanboys so maybe that why they made the comment,

 

[Themastererr]

Your friends are right in the sense that Ryzen doesn't have the single thread performance to keep up with the 1080 in some games.

However in the majority of games, and if you're not the type of person that absolutely needs maximum frames for competitive gaming, Ryzen will do you just fine.

 

[dudeman509]

Bah.

If you're shooting for 1440 or 4k resolution with the 1080, which I hope you would be (it's a waste of a card @ 1080p), the Ryzen is more than capable of 60+ FPS in any modern game. Ryzens are fine gamers; they don't do 144 Hz well @ 1080p, but I've never really been sure of the point of that many FPS anyway...my eyes sure can't tell a difference.