Posted September 15, 2017
PainOfSalvation: @fishbaits: I would go for R5 1600 and invest more money in memory & mobo but depends of your needs and budget.
Had contemplated a 1600, but I do fair bit of rendering, so extra cores of the 1700+ are more for my needs :) Checking online, seems the 1700x can get that little bit higher than the 1700 (guessing it's just a better binned chip)./
Will have to dig about for more results first, see what's what.
Quick check shows that my current cooler (hyper 212 evo) can be used on AM4 brackets. So that'd save the cost of a new cooler & I can always throw in my original cooler back into this system.
Still deciding hehe.
Post edited September 15, 2017 by fishbaits