Is It Worth the Upgrade? Ryzen 3 vs. Core i5-2500K vs. FX-8370

[paul s2]

The best time to upgrade is when your system no longer meets its use demand. ie it wont do what you want anymore that being said I dont replace processor/motherboard unless I can get 3x the performance at the same dollar. I currently have a 4770k at teh time it was 330usd. its single core and multi core performance cant be tripled for 330usd yet so im not upgrading. single core perf = 2254 multi core is 10k.
so when I can get a single core perf at about 6k and multi core perf at 30k ill get a upgrade in the 330usd range.
we are close at 30k multi perf rating at 999usd. but single core ratings at anyprice are still below 2600 "I7-7700k"
at stock clocks. I know 6k single core perf is a ways off. now in a few years 30k multicore perf will be at 330usd and I might consider it. Moore's law is dead. btw the 2500k has a single core rating at 1899 and multi core rating at 6400 si I do understand why its still not time to upgrade these aging chips.

 

[Alpha Gamer]

Can someone help me figure something out? I have an i5 2500k @ 4.2ghz, 16gb ram 1866mhz and a gtx 980. So I thought I'd get similar (slightly less) performance than what the gtx 1060 did. But truth is my my numbers are nowhere near Steve's. My average is higher (129) but my min is 37, whereas Steve's is 93. I'm talking about "rainbow six siege". I don't own the other games. In fact, I don't even own this one either, I got the free weekend version steam is offering right now. So, besides gpu drivers(which is not the case) , what else could be missing in my setup?

 

[Arris]

Mine has 4 USB 3.0 but only 2 SATA 3.0

You must have shopped around for that specifically.

Nah, I just managed to talked myself out of buying the Deluxe model and down to the Pro one which has less features that I wouldn't use and since I've ended up keeping the build for so long I've ended up using all the SATA ports and usb 3.0 ports.

 

[ET3D]

Thanks, that was quite interesting. That i5-2500K was a great choice. Wish I made it.

My poor old desktop has a Phenom II X6 1090T, and is largely unused these days. Even when it was in use, I never felt that the construction cores were worth the price of the upgrade.

 

[Sam Marano]

Ok wait a second... I have a 2500k and the same board. Is it true that the PCIe is only running at 8x and not 16x? I could've sworn it says that in the manual... with an i5 you only get 8x, 16x with the i7.

 

[HardReset]

Ok wait a second... I have a 2500k and the same board. Is it true that the PCIe is only running at 8x and not 16x? I could've sworn it says that in the manual... with an i5 you only get 8x, 16x with the i7.

No, i5 and i7 have same number of PCI Express lanes for GPU.