Ended up going with the ryzen 5 2600x paired with a msi 450b tomahawk board.
I'm hoping this will be more than sufficient for my current a near future needs.
I'm stoked to get started this weekend.
I already bought replaced my GPU to an RX 580.
It was the 5 year old CPU and the lack of upgrading options on the mobo that facilitated this upgrade.
I already bought replaced my GPU to an RX 580.
It was the 5 year old CPU and the lack of upgrading options on the mobo that facilitated this upgrade.
Usually prices drop when there's a new generation out, I'd have waited until then.
In most games the bottleneck is the GPU, you could have moved it to a new system later