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Barkley on 16 November 2020
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Cyran said:
Barkley said:

My new build:

Motherboard - ASRock B550M Pro 4
CPU - Ryzen 5 3600
Cooler - Hyper 212 Evo Black
Ram - 16gb (2x8gb) 3600mhz
GPU - GTX 1660 Ti
Case - CoolerMaster Silencio S400
Storage - Samsung 860 Evo 500gb + Intel 730 480gb

My i5-4670k was overclocked to 4.5ghz, so while the new Ryzen will destroy it in anything using more than 4 threads I'm not entirely sure about single-thread performance which was still a beast... hopefully a bit better mainly for emulation sake.

Once games on PC start taking better advantage of higher than SATA speeds I'll shove a gen 4 NVME ssd in there. Probably sometime next year with DirectStorage coming out then.

Even in 2020 though, the only game I ever played that the i5-4670k (OC'd) couldn't manage 60fps in was the latest Assassin's Creed games (origins onwards) which dipped to 45. Amazing how long it lasted.

Nice build and you got nothing to worry about in single thread performance.  The 3600 going to be way ahead of the 4670k.  I think you vastly underestimating how much IPC gain there was in the 6 years between the Haswell architecture and the Zen 2.

One recommendation with Zen 2 unless you just really into tweaking the CPU manually there really not much gain from OC Zen 2 manually vs using the auto OC of precision boost so for overclocking I would just turn on precision boost and call it a day.  Precision boost adapt to temperature but my guess for single core you see around 4.5ghz with it on.  A bit lower when taxing all cores. 

I wanted to look into that Ryzen Clock Tuner program someone made, see if that squeezes anything out of it or at least lowers temps, but I'll try just the precision boost too.

My single thread performance concerns comes from userbenchmark.

Single Thread

i5-4670k (average) = 108 points
i5-4670k (my 4.5ghz) = 132 points
R5 3600 (average) = 130 points

So at stock it seems likely single-thread performance will be about the same as my OC'd i5, but I'm sure I'll be able to get it up a a bit which will be fine.