What's the newest CPU you'd run on a x370 board?

[Shadowless]

If that's the case, why not just leave the system alone and give it away as is? Let that person buy a 5700X for the rig

Because it's either going to go to my 1 brother to use for streaming his Xbox, or it's going to my other brother's wife since it's better then the computer he'll be giving her next year when he upgrades.

Trust me, if it were going to anyone else this thread would've never been made

 

[Nagorak]

When I'm talking about productivity I'm talking like MS Office, Quickbooks, Chrome type stuff. I think we're talking about 2 different things

Also if I upgrade, I'm moving the 11700K system to Second PC status and the Ryzen system will be given away to someone with a GTX970 in place of the 1080 I'm keeping

I guess it's all semantics, but I would classify word processing, web browsing as more like office work. I could be wrong, but my understanding was productivity more often used to refer to video editing or other heavier processing tasks?

For that sort of light work load you're right a new eight core isn't warranted. But honestly, you could also consider just giving it away as is and not getting a new CPU at all, since a 1700 can handle all that stuff fine. Of course, if you sell off the 1700 off then you can probably make the move to a 5600 for not that much money, so maybe it's still worth doing.

 

[Shadowless]

But honestly, you could also consider just giving it away as is and not getting a new CPU at all, since a 1700 can handle all that stuff fine. Of course, if you sell off the 1700 off then you can probably make the move to a 5600 for not that much money, so maybe it's still worth doing.

Read my comment above yours, it addresses this.

 

[Shadowless]

Picked up a 5600X from Microcenter for $150 with a coupon I had. Pretty solid deal. Will probably install it this weekend.

 

[acroig]

Awesome deal, congrats.