WYP
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Zen 3 is coming to the B450 platform.
Read more about ASRock's Ryzen 5000 compatible BIOS files of B450.
Read more about ASRock's Ryzen 5000 compatible BIOS files of B450.
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ASRock announced Ryzen 5000 series BIOS support for B450 motherboards
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Tripp
too many shrooms
Right there with you buddy
I'm rocking a 1600AF (Rebadged 2600 apparently), 4GHz all-core without straining much thermally, couple more cores and a big IPC and clock boost will serve me well but atm the £150 effective premium for Zen3 parts in the UK and low availability of the 8-core makes it hard to me to justify jumping on straight away.
Dawelio
Active member
For me, it’s not. I game at 1440p and at most it’s around MAX 30 fps, which is a fare scenario. Most common it’s around 10 fps more for either the 5600X or 5900X.
Not worth it, unless you do heavy multithreaded workloads, which I personally don’t. So I’ll just keep my 3700X.
KingNosser
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no real point in upgrading unless your on a far older CPU I'm on a Ryzen 1700 won't be upgrading until maybe 2025 CPU's generally have good legs on them 
Your 3700x has plenty of life left in it yet
Your 3700x has plenty of life left in it yet
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
No point in upgrading to a dead platform. Mine as well wait for DDR5. You'll need a new CPU, memory, and board after Zen 3 anyway. Sticking with what you got now is more than enough more than likely.
I probably wouldn't if I had a 3000 part, but TechSpot* got an average of like ~65% and 55% increase in FPS avg. and mins across games for a 5600X vs 1600X and 2600X at 1080p max settings, seems like a decent enough jump from Zen1/+ even if you didn't want more cores
*from the graph at the end https://www.techspot.com/review/2135-amd-ryzen-5600x/
*from the graph at the end https://www.techspot.com/review/2135-amd-ryzen-5600x/
AlienALX
Well-known member
Yup same story here. I certainly don't need the threaded performance and for gaming my rig is brilliant. Given my new hobby is PUBG pretty much every night I would say I am very happy with how all of my rigs perform.
A 3700x is still a very meaty CPU. Especially when threading and multi tasking. I would say that I would only really want a 5000 series if I were gaming at 1080p super competitively and was still young enough to have the reactions needed for 200+ FPS games. I don't though, as I have found out over the past two months in PUBG.
Even my 1920x TR chips at 4.1ghz and 1440p are more than enough to batter out anything.
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