I did a 3800x to 5900x upgrade given the high entry prices for AM5 platform. you won't go wrong with it and can sustain for another 2 years after which you can do a platform upgrade
Depends upon what you are doing with this system. If gaming, which GPU are you using, what resolutions you are playing on/planning to play on. Don't go by the performance numbers on review websites as those are usually using a very high end GPU at 1080p which is very unrealistic in real world.
Well in that case you might not feel much benefit in upgrading to a 5600 as you'll most likely always be GPU bottlenecked & won't be playing at high framerates anyway. I would still recommend going with the upgrade if you can get it for 3k + 3600 selling price.
I'll go for it, recently got a DNC list of 2.5M records so had to split those and create 3 excel sheets for duplicates check with new leads. with vlookup formulas running in background excel become unresponsive so I guess more compute power will help here.
yes a good decision.
works on x450 boards!
5xxx g series wont work on b450
So for me, both mobo and processor have to be upgraded
...Probably it's best for me to wait for 1 more gen to release and then upgrade.
are you asking of g series or x series processor. my friend is running 5600X on msi b450 tomahawk.So for me, both mobo and processor have to be upgraded
Initially thought of 5600G, but doesn't look like a good upgrade from 3600. Maybe I will wait for 7xxx G
No, you already have a zen2 chip. zen2 -> zen3 isn't a huge deal especially when you're not increasing core count. Since AM4 is dead better plan an upgrade path which is meaningful and not a sidegrade like 5800X or above.
Who said that?
Spending around 8k for the performance gane between 3600 to 5600 was a question for me so asked as my initial plan was to skip 7000 series and buy 8 series after 1~1.5yrs that will require all major components upgrade (motherboard+processor+RAM). I'll try to find second hand 5600x in 12~13k range then it will be a reasonable upgrade.
