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I have an old i5-2500K with AMD R9 280X GPU. Since my games are bottle-necked by the processor I am considering to upgrade the CPU/MB/RAM. I will be leaving the GPU alone since I doubt it affect my performance much.
I have been considering AMD Ryzen 7 1700x/1800x or Intel i7-8700K/i5-8600k CPUs.
I think some of newer games can use more cores, but not sure if Ryzen's 8 core is going provide any benefits. I know Cities Skylines seems to be very well multi-threaded. Galactic Civ 3, has OK multi-threaded support but I don't think it will really benefit from more than 2 cores.
Meanwhile, my older games are single threaded. HOI3, Total War games, Sins of a Solar Empire, etc. Those seems like the would need highest max turbo performance on a single core, which makes me lean towards Intel CPUs.
Note, I don't think there any GPU bound game that I play. Anyone got any suggestions regarding these CPU bound games?
I have been considering AMD Ryzen 7 1700x/1800x or Intel i7-8700K/i5-8600k CPUs.
I think some of newer games can use more cores, but not sure if Ryzen's 8 core is going provide any benefits. I know Cities Skylines seems to be very well multi-threaded. Galactic Civ 3, has OK multi-threaded support but I don't think it will really benefit from more than 2 cores.
Meanwhile, my older games are single threaded. HOI3, Total War games, Sins of a Solar Empire, etc. Those seems like the would need highest max turbo performance on a single core, which makes me lean towards Intel CPUs.
Note, I don't think there any GPU bound game that I play. Anyone got any suggestions regarding these CPU bound games?