- Jan 12, 2019
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A little bit about myself and my situation. I'm a very price conscious person (let's say the average wage in my country is six to ten times lower than in the US), I'm also very strapped for money and at the same time I want to upgrade because ... I don't really know why since my current PC still works just fine and it runs all the games and tasks I throw at it. My current build is Intel Core i5 2500K + NVIDIA 1060 6GB and I'm gaming at 1080p. I'm thinking about upgrading to Ryzen 3700X and some time in the future I'll upgrade either to the next gen Navi or NVIDIA's 7nm GPU. The current offerings don't really look exciting in terms of performance/power and I never buy GPUs with TBP above 150W. The reason why I haven't upgraded to previous Intel/AMD CPUs is because they don't offer enough increase in IPC. The Ryzen 3000 series, on the other hand, looks extremely exciting for the first time ever since 2011.
This upgrade will serve me for the next 7-10 years just like the current one has already done (8 years). I'm OK with waiting for a year or a little longer. I don't need fancy features like super-fast SSD/M.2 disks, USB 3.2 gen 2, Wi-Fi or anything for that matter. I have a single SATA 3.0 SSD disk I'm perfectly content with its performance.
So, the question is: should I upgrade right now to AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or should I wait for the next gen Intel desktop CPUs? I don't want to purchase Core i7 9700K since it's rife with vulnerabilities, the platform overall is done and dusted and Ice Lake is considerably faster (~18% IPC increase), so knowing that a much better uArch is around the corner doesn't inspire confidence in current Intel offerings.
This upgrade will serve me for the next 7-10 years just like the current one has already done (8 years). I'm OK with waiting for a year or a little longer. I don't need fancy features like super-fast SSD/M.2 disks, USB 3.2 gen 2, Wi-Fi or anything for that matter. I have a single SATA 3.0 SSD disk I'm perfectly content with its performance.
So, the question is: should I upgrade right now to AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or should I wait for the next gen Intel desktop CPUs? I don't want to purchase Core i7 9700K since it's rife with vulnerabilities, the platform overall is done and dusted and Ice Lake is considerably faster (~18% IPC increase), so knowing that a much better uArch is around the corner doesn't inspire confidence in current Intel offerings.