[SOLVED] Should I wait for 3rd gen ryzen?

[kindangrysliceofpie]

Hey everyone,

I saw a post on Instagram with details about ryzen’s new 3000 series, X570 chipsets, and 7nm chips coming January at computex 2019. In about late December I’ll be ordering parts for a new build, which has a ryzen 5 1600x. Should I wait until January to get the 3000 series chips? How much better performance will they have? Is it worth the wait? Is there any pricing available?

 

[Lutfij]

I would ask you to wait out until March 2018 before you pull the trigger. We don't know what they will bring to the table outside of revised lithography. We can all be hopeful but we'll need to see what's implemented. Waiting isn't a bad thing either as some prices should drop/stabilize like ram and SSD's.

 

[jschalky]

I just bought a 2600 like last week. Which is a bit annoying seeing that is basically a ryzen 3 now. Now I need to decide whether to sell it for a 3rd gen or just keep using it. I dunno too many options lol

 

[dontlistentome]

My advice is always to wait, if you can wait, buy now if you need something now.

There's no reason to be upset you bought a first gen CPU as long as you needed it, and it was your best choice at the time. The only reason to be mad at yourself is if you didn't really need to buy anything at that time.

Newer, cheaper, and better components are ALWAYS on the horizon. If you only want to buy the latest then you'll never buy anything because something newer will be coming out if you just wait awhile.

 

[punkncat]

According to what I read as leaked specs, absolutely. The 5 is going to be a 7, the 7 is well, amazeballz

 

[winks42]

According to leaks: AMD Ryzen 3 3300X, 3300 & 3300G – 6 Cores, Upto 4.3 GHz & $129.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 3600 & 3600G – 8 Cores, Upto 4.8 GHz & $229

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 3700 – 12 Cores, Upto 5.0 GHz & $329

All on the AM4 socket.

 

[kindangrysliceofpie]

According to leaks: AMD Ryzen 3 3300X, 3300 & 3300G – 6 Cores, Upto 4.3 GHz & $129.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 3600 & 3600G – 8 Cores, Upto 4.8 GHz & $229

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 3700 – 12 Cores, Upto 5.0 GHz & $329

All on the AM4 socket.

ive heard about new mobos, B550 and X570 boards. Should i wait to order that too?

 

[winks42]

Yes, the boards will have a lot of features like StoreMI, StoreMI essentially combines the speed of your SSD with the capacity of your hard disk into a single drive, allowing you to load games and applications on your HDD at SSD-like speeds. It’s a bit like RAID, in that all you’ll see in Windows is a single drive with the combined capacity of both drives, but StoreMI optimises everything at a block level, allowing it to migrate your most-used blocks to the fastest bits of storage, and you can also add 2GB of DDR4 RAM cache on top, too, if you’re that way inclined.

Also better support for higher TDP CPUs (105)
Hope this helps

 

[kindangrysliceofpie]

Yes, the boards will have a lot of features like StoreMI, StoreMI essentially combines the speed of your SSD with the capacity of your hard disk into a single drive, allowing you to load games and applications on your HDD at SSD-like speeds. It’s a bit like RAID, in that all you’ll see in Windows is a single drive with the combined capacity of both drives, but StoreMI optimises everything at a block level, allowing it to migrate your most-used blocks to the fastest bits of storage, and you can also add 2GB of DDR4 RAM cache on top, too, if you’re that way inclined.

Also better support for higher TDP CPUs (105)
Hope this helps

Thanks! I know they’ll be announced between the 11th and 19th, but when will the be available for purchase?

 

[winks42]

March ish

 

[kindangrysliceofpie]

And any knowledge of the stock cooler coming with it? The stealth for the r3 and spire for r5?