Ryzen 3600 with 2070s or 1650s Placeholder

Lgram on 16/05/2020 - 01:33

Hello everyone I know it's not a good time to build however I am in need of a system since I am returning my HP Spectre due to coil whine, weird bugs, poor build quality and many other things. I had it plugged into the monitor 24/7 anyway so I thought might as well put that into a pc.

Mainly using for fps gaming and browsing. Would it be wise to get a $250 1650s and use it in the system below in the meantime while I wait for 3000 cards or should I just send it on the 2070? At the sale price it doesn't work out to be that much of a premium to pay which doesn't really bother me much.

Not too fussed on b450 boards being axed since 4000 series chips don't interest me that much anyway.

Here is my PCPP list at the moment - https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/9vgBHB
- Mobo is pretty expensive but works out to be around the same as a mid tier with high end wifi/bluetooth card; plus I like the looks of it.
- 2070s set to go on sale for 769 sunday https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/537776.

Thanks again for everyone's input.

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Comments

  • ozhunter on 16/05/2020 - 02:37

    Who knows how much the 3000 cards will cost and if you can get your hands on one. It's up to you if you don't mind waiting until Sept-Oct for them and I'm guessing they aren't going to be cheap.

  • p1 ama on 16/05/2020 - 04:58
    +1

    No point waiting for 3000 series really. Yes, sure, they'll be here in September-October, but it'll be months after that before the early adopter tax and teething issues wear off. Then you might as well wait for price-cuts that come after AMD launch whatever they intend to launch too. You'll just end up waiting forever in that case.

    If you need to buy now, then buy now. The 2070S is a good card. You'll probably be happy with it. If you can live without the Turing features (really RTX Voice and the NVENC encoder), then go with AMD. The 5700XT is fantastic value at around $650.

    • NotAnAudiophile on 16/05/2020 - 10:06
      +1

      Agree with this 100%. I’m using a 3600 with 5700xt all amd build, best value pc I’ve ever used.

  • idjces on 16/05/2020 - 12:37

    rtx2000 series was the generation to skip. Nvidia massively marked them up, and the performance improvement was small relative to other generation jumps (16nm>12nm). It mainly had the other new features going for it like ray tracing, but then new features are probably better adopted by the 2nd generation of said feature (aka rtx3000)

    rtx3000 should actually be a huge improvement(12nm>7nm), look what 7nm did for AMD's 5700xt. Hopefully Nvidia returns to more reasonable pricing.

    You should be able to pick up a used 1070 for the $300-350 range. fwiw i'm still rocking the 1080ti

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