Which CPU is best for my PC upgrade?

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OliT250

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Hello!
I'm thinking of upgrading my CPU sometime near Black Friday or Christmas from an Intel Skylake i5 6500 to either a Ryzen 5 2600X or a Ryzen 7 2700X depending on the prices of these around that time of year. I am upgrading my PC as I want to play the newest games such as Battlefield 5 however my CPU does not meet the minimum specification requirements. I know that I will have to upgrade my motherboard so I have planned ahead for that. Will I also have to upgrade my RAM to a model that supports Ryzen?

Below is my proposed build:

PCPartPicker part list
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor (£188.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI - X470 GAMING PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard (£119.96 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (Purchased For £0.00)
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£66.97 @ Laptops Direct)
Storage: ADATA - Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For £0.00)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For £0.00)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING X 3G Video Card (Purchased For £0.00)
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For £0.00)
Power Supply: Corsair - CSM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For £0.00)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit (Purchased For £0.00)
Wireless Network Adapter: D-Link - DWA-582 PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter (Purchased For £0.00)

Total: £375.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-23 19:09 BST+0100

And here is my current build:

PCPartPicker part list
CPU: Intel - Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For £0.00)
Motherboard: MSI - H170 Gaming M3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (Purchased For £0.00)
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (Purchased For £0.00)
Storage: ADATA - Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For £0.00)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For £0.00)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING X 3G Video Card (Purchased For £0.00)
Case: NZXT - S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For £0.00)
Power Supply: Corsair - CSM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For £0.00)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit (Purchased For £0.00)
Wireless Network Adapter: D-Link - DWA-582 PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter (Purchased For £0.00)

Total: £0.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-23 19:11 BST+0100

Any recommendations?
Thanks! :)
 
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Roland Of Gilead
It's not a bad build, considering you are saving parts from your current build.

But a couple of points:

The new build is a little imbalanced. You have a great CPU, paired with pretty slow ram, and an average GPU for 1080p 60hz gaming.

Ditch the slow 2133 ram. Just get 2 x 8 gb 3000-3200mhz ram (in a kit). Ryzen really responds to fast ram. You have the slowest ram rated for Ryzen, and it will not help you. Also the mobo is not needed (x470), go for a B450 and save some money to put towards your faster ram. Sell your existing ram to further offset the cost.

The GPU is okay, but will start to feel it's max right now, and specially for AAA gaming. Consider that an upgrade when you can afford it.

Try something like this for the base...
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It's not a bad build, considering you are saving parts from your current build.

But a couple of points:

The new build is a little imbalanced. You have a great CPU, paired with pretty slow ram, and an average GPU for 1080p 60hz gaming.

Ditch the slow 2133 ram. Just get 2 x 8 gb 3000-3200mhz ram (in a kit). Ryzen really responds to fast ram. You have the slowest ram rated for Ryzen, and it will not help you. Also the mobo is not needed (x470), go for a B450 and save some money to put towards your faster ram. Sell your existing ram to further offset the cost.

The GPU is okay, but will start to feel it's max right now, and specially for AAA gaming. Consider that an upgrade when you can afford it.

Try something like this for the base system, and add whatever you want to save from older system:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor (£188.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI - B450 Gaming Plus ATX AM4 Motherboard (£89.97 @ Box Limited)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£133.26 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £412.22
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-23 19:34 BST+0100

I'd also consider getting a new PSU, something a bit better to power your system into the future (or 5-10 years depending on what you chose)

Something like this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £69.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-23 19:36 BST+0100

 
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Seeing the prices in the UK, the R5 2600X is the best bang for your buck
Memory frequency is really important on ryzen, so getting a DDR4-3000 kit will boost your performance quite a bit in games.
You can go the intel route though. You'll get better framerates in games, but in terms of productivity the ryzen chip is ahead.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor (£252.23 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI - B360-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£79.99 @ Box Limited)
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£66.97 @ Laptops Direct)
Total: £399.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-23 19:33 BST+0100
 
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Your talking about a 30% approx upgrade on the CPU from that change mate and the i5-6500 does meet the min requirements. TBH i think you would be better off taking all that money you are investing and putting it into a better GPU (1070ti or 1080) to improve graphical performance :)

Here are the Battlefield 5 system requirements (minimum)
CPU: Core i5 6600K / AMD FX-8350
CPU SPEED: Info
RAM: 8 GB
OS: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
VIDEO CARD: DirectX 11.0 Compatible video card with 2 GB VRAM (AMD Radeon HD 7850 / nVidia GeForce GTX 660)
PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
SOUND CARD: Yes
FREE DISK SPACE: 50 GB
DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 2048 MB

https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/battlefield-5-armageddon/13374
 
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While I don't necessarily disagree with the GPU upgrade path, the I5 6500 is just getting maxed now. 4c/4t was great 5 years ago, and is still relevant now, but games like BF1 now maxes out that CPU and it can cause stuttering in game, which just can't be resolved with a GPU upgrade.
 
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Thanks for the help!
I'll probably go down this route
 
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