Jenu-All I Want For Christmas wrote:Looking at doing a fresh build in the new year, what are the current recommended bang for buck CPUs? I know the i5 9600k and Ryzen 5 3600x seem to be pretty popular options.
Very tempted to bite the bullet and push for something a bit higher this time round, maybe the i7 9700k or Ryzen 7 3700x. I went with the i5 4690k in my last build back in 2014 and whilst it has served me very well overall I was a bit frustrated when the CPU became something of a bottleneck for achieving a consistent 60fps in several have after only a couple of years.
I went from a 4670k to 3900x as I was lucky with my preorder (I know
) not being price-gouged but the constant delays due to no stock was terrible. Still, I got some decent components at okay prices thanks to Black Friday.
Hard to beat Zen 2 as a bang-for-buck CPU right now. It must be stated that despite being compatible with previous generation AM4 motherboards there are still a lot of BIOS issues about which have prevented many builds from even booting. The flagship X570 boards seem to fare better but they're more expensive than previous generation flagships were at which point the savings on CPU may have been negated. B550 boards should be coming soon though so hopefully they'll be a good option.
I suppose the thing with PC hardware is there's always something better on the horizon. We should have new RTX3000 series cards by summer which I'll be interested in as I'm still using my 1070 and AMD and Intel should have new desktop CPUs out towards the end of next year.