Help me choose a Geforce Card (and things to go with it)

[Pemalite]

FallingTitan said:

Pemalite said:

At that clock rate, you have years of life left in it for gaming.

For someone with a CPU like yours, Ryzen's main appeal is the extra cores for multi-tasking, but is it worth spending hundreds of dollars if your current rig handles everything? That's up to you as an individual to decide.

I personally believe Ryzen is a good starting point for AMD, but Zen+/Ryzen 2 is when the chips should start to come into their own in my opinion.

yeah exactly wat i was thinkin. But i've always been a AMD guy...this i5 was my first intel chip.  Because well amd was failing.  Now they seem back to the good old days so my next rig will go back to amd my fav. <3

 

but im so impressed with my i5 4690k. 

 

If i needed a comp today i'd get the R5 1600x and oc.

The R5 1600X is a great chip, but I would go for the cheaper R5 1600 and overclock or jump up to the Ryzen 7 1700.
Sadly though, Ryzen doesn't clock well, chips seem to top out at around 4ghz.
So Intel will have a performance edge in gaming for a long time to come yet, untill games start being built with 6+ threads in mind of course.

That could be years away though.

I tend to prefer Intel for my CPU's/Motherboard due to the generally higher warranty length on some boards, overclockability and (And up untill recently...) performance.

AMD is my go-to for GPU's, mostly because of multi-monitor support.