Best Processor & Motherboard Combo for DDR3: i5-2500S, Gigabyte, Adata XPG, R9 280, 1600MHz

Hello colleagues

My personal PC is already on the old i5-2500S with some poor Gigabyte motherboard. I wanted to change the platform and I don't know what for. I would like to save RAM - I am currently working on Adata XPG DDR3 2x4GB 1600 Mhz.

GPU: XFX R9 280 3GB
PSU: Chieftec 650W
1xHDD 1TB and additional SSD 240GB

I use the computer for practically everything - from writing @ to playing. Is "packaging" eg in the 4th generation i5 sensible? I liked the Ryzen platform, but I see that everything requires DDR4 memory.

I have a limited budget of 1100 zlotys - RAM remains, so something should be found.

The transition from the 2nd to the 4th generation is pointless. Sell your current memory, because it still can be done. Then I suggest Asrock Z370 PRO4, I3-8100 and 8GB DDR4, after selling RAM you will fit in the budget with such a configuration. There is no point in backing up by two generations due to your memory.

And Ryzen 5 1500x and AM4 platform if I had to change memory?

In some applications it will be better, in others it will be worse. You need to read some tests and decide what you prefer. For me, for general applications and games at the moment i3 is a better choice.

https://www.purepc.pl/procesory/test_intel_core_i3_8100_core_i5_7500_w_cenie_core_i3_7100

Indeed, a colleague is right. From what I read, the i3-8100 is just losing to Ryzen 1600x (except that it costs about 900 zlotys). My R9 280 should not "choke" with i3.

It's hard to say he's losing. In some applications he will win, in others he will lose. These are two different approaches to the topic of performance and it can't be simply said that the X processor is Y% faster / slower than the Z processor.

As for the R9-280, nothing should be choking, since the 4th, 6th, 7th generation I5 processors were good for this card, then this i3 will also be (because actually it does not differ much from the i5-7400 / 7500.

You can consider replacing the CPU, since the graphics card is enough for Xeon E3-1230 V2 / 1240/1260/1270 does the trick. It's still quite a powerful CPU at PLN 4xx worth considering.
The downside of the new Intel platform is the blocking of support for new eighth generation processors by Z170 chipset boards, which had a relatively decent price, with the Z370 being expensive.
IMO Xeon will be OK.

Searching on Allegro, I did not find such cheap Xeons, but maybe somewhere it can be found. On the other hand, investing in the old platform of this money will bring such benefits:

- applications that can use up to four threads will accelerate by 10-15% max.
- applications that can use more threads can be accelerated more (by 50% or more).

In my opinion, the investment in Xeon is noteworthy only if you intend to load the processor with applications that can use more than 4 threads, otherwise little is achieved relative to the mounted I5-2500S.

Plates from z170 (new) cost from 300-350 PLN up. The cheapest Z370 boards cost PLN 450. This is not such a nightmare difference. Waiting for a while (probably somewhere until spring) cheaper CDs for H110 and B360 should appear. If you wait a while, you can probably save ~ PLN 200 on the disc.

I will agree with my friend's proposal dt1 : I will probably stay with I3-8100 and Asrock Z370 PRO4. With 8GB of DDR4 memory I will close to PLN 1,170.

All in all, this topic can be considered closed. Thank you very much colleagues for help.

Generally, it is not worth exchanging this platform for a relative CPU, because this I3-8100, I do not know how it is from 2500S because it is a little more economical, but from the usual 2500 it is up to 15-20% more efficient and it does not achieve such an advantage in all applications. At least that's what the online tests say.
My son has I5-2500 at home, and what is worth mentioning here? Well, there is nothing worth it in reasonable money. Giving 1000 PLN for 20-30% in my opinion is not worth it.
Because you need to change MB, CPU and RAM.
However, to reassemble the i3-8100, that's the most.

I3-8100 is slightly more than 30% faster than i5-2500S for applications using one core, and slightly more than 50% faster for applications using 4 or more threads (so say the tests that I found).

If the processor is currently a limitation in the author's applications, it is worth replacing (the more that the z370 will still open the door to replace the processor with a six-core i5 / i7, if necessary). But here the Author would have to check if it is a problem of lack of processor performance or something else.

Exactly - it would be worth asking, what is the reason for the modernization, in what applications is the current computer too weak?

As I mentioned before - I use the computer for everything - from writing @ to playing. And unfortunately when playing it can be seen that the processor is already getting short of breath .

In addition, my motherboard has also recently started to fix (system freeze, automatic shutdown, etc., I tested everything - starting from reinstalling the whole system and drivers to translating and testing each component to a working set - it turned out that the motherboard stops "banglać").

komandor64 wrote:

when playing it can be seen that the processor is already getting short of breath

How do you know that you are not a card? Have you checked it?

komandor64 wrote:

my motherboard has also recently started to fix (system freezees, automatic shutdown, etc., I tested everything - starting from reinstalling the whole system and drivers to translating and testing each of the components into a working set - it came to me that the disc stops whirring ").

Have you replaced the power supply in your set with another one? Even a branded power supply can break down, and such random suspensions indicate, among other things, a possible failure of the power supply.

I uploaded my Radeon to the platform with i5-4690K (without OC) - a colossal difference (of course the same titles and graphic settings ).

As for the power supply, I added Zalman ZM-600LX and Vero L1 for testing - no changes .

In this arrangement, replacing the whole makes some sense.