I’m getting ready to put together a new PC build within the next few weeks probably, and I’m most likely going ahead with one of the above noted CPU’s for the build. Just wondering if anyone has either of these CPU’s, and had recently upgraded to them, that could give me some insight into how good they each are respectively in Farthest Frontier, and of course other simulation type games (ANNO 1800, cities skylines, Civ 6 etc.). The other main genre of game I primarily play is MMO’s (basically just World of Warcraft and ESO). I know these types of games are way less dependant on the GPU than newer AAA titles are, and in fact benefit a lot from a good CPU, so that’s my main focus of the upgrade.
I’ve been trying to research both of the CPU’s as best I can in regards to what I would primarily be using them for (pretty much just a pure gaming computer build, as I don’t do much other productivity tasks etc on this PC). It looks like the 7800X3D would be quite a bit better than the i7 for a primarily gaming PC? I’ve read that a lot of people are seeing pretty nice FPS increases in older MMO’s like WoW too, and that the extra V-cache on the 7800X3D is really good for simulation type games too, but I’m really wondering if it would be quite noticeable or not in Farthest Frontier in particular?
My current CPU is an i5-9600K - so wondering if anyone has upgraded from that chip to either of the above mentioned, and then how noticeable of an increase has it been for you? I’ll be continuing to use my existing GPU (RTX 2070 Super), until I upgrade that maybe next year when the 5000 series comes along.