fistik
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Re: Should I upgrade my CPU to go with a 3080ti?
Tuesday, June 08, 2021 7:46 PM
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Sxaris
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You definitely bottlenecking with 3600
you can see here
This is a really good answer. Thanks for that link, didn't know it existed.  Like most said, 1080p is acceptable, but for 2k+ you will get a CPU bottleneck.
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Re: Should I upgrade my CPU to go with a 3080ti?
Tuesday, June 08, 2021 7:58 PM
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I agree. 6 cores are more than enough, if it's just gaming. Besides, the 3600 is still an outstanding CPU, despite the 5000 series being out for quite a while now. I wouldn't worry about a CPU upgrade
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Re: Should I upgrade my CPU to go with a 3080ti?
Wednesday, June 09, 2021 4:22 PM
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kram36
Well I hope you have money growing on a tree with all these recommendations.
 I totally agree, really no need to change anything if it doesn't bottleneck and this is very easy to check.
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Re: Should I upgrade my CPU to go with a 3080ti?
Wednesday, June 09, 2021 4:30 PM
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You are probably fine, but that is kinda borderline tbh. Maybe go Ryzen 5.
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Re: Should I upgrade my CPU to go with a 3080ti?
Wednesday, June 09, 2021 4:31 PM
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I went from 3950x to 5950x and gained about 40FPS in the flight Sims I play. For gaming it's quite a jump in performance. Multthreading performance went up only about 10 percent, but the gaming performance jump was massive. I did that in December last year. If I had that dilemma right now I think I'd wait for a DDR5 platform before upgrading.
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Re: Should I upgrade my CPU to go with a 3080ti?
Wednesday, June 09, 2021 4:39 PM
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Might be worth it waiting for when the next gen releases, if you're not up for waiting then the 5800 should serve you just fine
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Re: Should I upgrade my CPU to go with a 3080ti?
Wednesday, June 09, 2021 5:24 PM
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I'd say yes. In CPU intensive games the 3600 is struggling. Its' a good CPU, but a budget CPU. If you were on a budget, I'd say don't, but I presume that's not an issue given your 3080 Ti purchase. 25% performance uplift is real.
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Re: Should I upgrade my CPU to go with a 3080ti?
Wednesday, June 09, 2021 6:05 PM
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I would suggest that you see for yourself: get MSI afterburner and turn on the overlay during the most stressing games you have and see what has the highest utilization: CPU or GPU. If it's GPU, that's normal and you are not CPU-bottlenecked. If your CPU is maximally utilized, you may want to upgrade.
Hint: games are benefitting from multicore but are still single-core-performance sensitive, I'd advise getting a 5600 or ideally a 5800x rather than something like a 3800xt or 3950.
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Re: Should I upgrade my CPU to go with a 3080ti?
Wednesday, June 09, 2021 6:40 PM
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What res are you playing on? For 1080p: Definatly upgrade, for 1440p: You should be fine rn, maybe upgrade later to a 6th gen Ryzen, for 4k: Definatly GPU bound, although a new CPU most likely will give you some extra Fps
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