[SOLVED] Stick with Ryzen 7 1700 or go for Ryzen 7 2700?

[gqtuazon13]

apologize if this is the wrong place to ask, please feel free to move it if that is the case. I'm planning on building a productivity desktop, designed mostly to create 3D animations. In practical terms for the best bang for the buck, I intend to use a Ryzen 7 1700, Asus B450 F, 16gb DDR4 3200, RTX 2060 and 1tb m.2. My question is, is it worth spending the extra $$ to get the Ryzen 7 2700? Thanks in advance.

 

[CountMike]

Only if you go to 2700X.

 

[1LiquidPC]

I would given the choice. Did this myself in a way. Sold 1700/X370 combo family member for their business PC. Later, bought 2700X/X470 combo for my daily driver/HTPC setup. Performance and overall stability with DDR4 3200 were greatly improved. Runs all 8 cores at around 4 Ghz out of the box when fully loaded, with lighter loads using fewer cores around 4.35ish.

If you don't plan to overclock, I'd try for the 2700X if possible for a bit more over 2700.

 

[gqtuazon13]

Only if you go to 2700X.

Thanks Mike.

 

[gqtuazon13]

I would given the choice. Did this myself in a way. Sold 1700/X370 combo family member for their business PC. Later, bought 2700X/X470 combo for my daily driver/HTPC setup. Performance and overall stability with DDR4 3200 were greatly improved. Runs all 8 cores at around 4 Ghz out of the box when fully loaded, with lighter loads using fewer cores around 4.35ish.

If you don't plan to overclock, I'd try for the 2700X if possible for a bit more over 2700.

I see. I guess for future proofing, the consensus is 2700x plus X470 and not the older motherboards. Thank you.

 

[1LiquidPC]

I should clarify that the older boards should work fine with 2700X, as long as they have an updated UEFI to support 2000 series before install. It's just the CPUs themselves got a nice boost in clockspeed as well as better memory support and speeds that were achievable with the 2000 series. The 300 series and 400 series boards are quite similar, with only a few differences. StoreMI and official faster memory support are a few.

 

[gqtuazon13]

I should clarify that the older boards should work fine with 2700X, as long as they have an updated UEFI to support 2000 series before install. It's just the CPUs themselves got a nice boost in clockspeed as well as better memory support and speeds that were achievable with the 2000 series. The 300 series and 400 series boards are quite similar, with only a few differences. StoreMI and official faster memory support are a few.

Thank you for the clarification. My current one is a Ryzen 5 with Asus X370 prime. My RAM can only reach 29k instead of 3200 stable with the updated UEFI. I'm sure the newer boards have addressed that issue.

 

[CountMike]

Another clarification. It's not so much due to chipset itself but more because of better optimized RAM paths with MBs with newer chipset. In part, it's also because of better IMC (Internal Memory Controller) in 2nd gen Ryzen chips. "Natural" IMC frequency for 1st gen was 2666MHz and 2933MHz for for 2nd gen Ryzen. That makes better synchronization with existing XMP profiles and better chance for OC: