You're a lucky guy. 8700K with the works and Volta next year should be your best option. You certainly have the budget for that. All the best for your new build.
You're a lucky guy. 8700K with the works and Volta next year should be your best option. You certainly have the budget for that. All the best for your new build.You are probably right. First, I should update my monitor, as it is now a 3440x1440 100Hz curved monitor, but regardless, I am looking to improve the number of threads I have and memory speed. So going from 4/8 to 6/12 will help in games like Ashes of the Singularity, and 32GB of memory can be helpful for games where I use ENB to help out memory utilization for some games. But for the most part, things will be exactly the same. Finally, I am looking for aesthetic upgrades as well. So instead of a lift and shift into a new case, I am looking at new CPUs and memory. I could probably convince my wife that a new video card is needed too, since she is always pushing me to get the best of the best. That said, this freedom to get whatever I want whenever I want it, enables me to wait on that until next year. Sounds crazy, but it is kinda liberating.
As much tempered glass as I can get. I like the looks of the Corsair 570X, but not thrilled with their PSU shroud not going all the way across the bottom. I am also considering the Phanteks P400 and the ThermalTake View 31 TG RGB.
You're a lucky guy. 8700K with the works and Volta next year should be your best option. You certainly have the budget for that. All the best for your new build.
Look I went with AMD Ryzen because I game and do a ton of photoshop/ lightroom works and when you export like 1000+ pictures from raw to jpg every other day, the time saved is major.
Going from a i3 3470 (4C/4T) to a R5 (6C/6T) gave me 30-35% boost in cpu framerates (since I used the same video card). Then I upgraded my video card and saw a massive improvement.
Since you have a good cpu already, your gains might be lower than mine.
So what's your point for upgrading?
1. you want 2 gaming pc's next to the other?
2. you want to pass down your current pc to your significant other/ kids?
3. money to burn?
Because it doesn't seem like spending $2500 for a 20% cpu upgrade is very worth it.
I spent the following:
CPU: $220
Memory: $205
Motherboard: $145
Power Supply: $110
Case: $90
SSD: $90
Heatsink: $40
So for $900 I got a 30-35% upgrade. I wasn't exactly overjoyed with it from a gaming point of view but with photoshop/ lightroom it was a worthwhile improvement.. easily a 200% improvement.
P.S. One of the major advantages of AMD is they don't require you to buy a new motherboard every cycle. That is 1 reason I went with them like say in 4 years I want to upgrade to a 5ghz 7nm cpu.. I can just drop one in there without worrying that I need new RAM and a new motherboard. But then again I don't have money to burn.
Well if you've got money to spend, why not wait for a core i9 8C/16T that'll be out earlier next year. And yes it will need a new chipset.. Z390.
If you don't wait, you'll be wondering what the improvements are over a 6C/12T cpu you bought last october.
P.S. I'm sorta in the same boat as you. My wife wants a new comp and I'm debating giving her mine and upgrading to a 8700k vs building her a ryzen 3. And I'm leaning towards the ryzen 3 for her.
Yes, the 8C/16T i9 is looking pretty, but with that logic, I could just keep waiting forever, lol.
Also, this video really nails it when showing how the 8700K is the new king of gaming. He does an excellent job comparing many processors including a 1700X toward the last 1/3rd of the video:
https://youtu.be/CZIVaGcax70
He does an excellent job showing that overclocking the 8700K does nothing if you don't increase memory bandwith:
https://youtu.be/CZIVaGcax70?t=10m31s
and here:
https://youtu.be/CZIVaGcax70?t=11m
He even throws in my 4790K processor:
https://youtu.be/CZIVaGcax70?t=12m30s
Maybe I should just go with the 8700 then?
8700K all the way. Don't settle for poor ST performance of Ryzen. Nearly every task you will do on your pc will use 1-2 cores. Why settle for 2012ish performance when you can get a six-core 5ghz beast,
While I agree with the recommendation, the way you try to frame Ryzen's performance is comical at best.
The 8700k is the best gaming chip available. Or at least it would be available, if anyone weren't on backorder. Try to avoid the temptation of buying over MSPR, OP.
You will probably have to wait until November.
If you must have AMD, I would wait for Pinnacle Ridge at this point, though AMD is cutting prices on their CPUs which is nice. Either way you will do quite well. It's hard to go wrong buying anything released after March 2017.
You guy can squabble about CPU's and while you're conversating get killed by a player with a Phenom 2. Happens all day every day. lol
I agree the wording was inflammatory
You guy can squabble about CPU's and while you're conversating get killed by a player with a Phenom 2. Happens all day every day. lol
I have pre-ordered an 8700K for $379. Could have had it for $370 but I took too long. But yes, everything I see says the 8700K is *THE* gaming processor.
the way you try to frame Ryzen's performance is comical at best.
Not sure what you mean. Clock for Clock Ryzen is behind nearly every I7 chip since 2012. .
While I agree with the recommendation, the way you try to frame Ryzen's performance is comical at best.
Well and 1080p gaming is misnomer as well. CPU bottlenecked gaming. Which is what people don't do except in edge cases of super high frame rate ultra competitive shooters like CSgo (again not CSgo in particular just the actual Pro-gamer portion of it). That's the framing everyone is missing when referring to gaming. It matters if you are building a new machine now for whatever reason to keep an eye out for gaming CPU's but there is almost no difference in any Sandybridge or later IPC CPU when played how people actually play their games which is GPU bottlenecked.Ahh the IPC argument rears its ugly head again. Do you guys seriously have nothing better to argue about?
This was already settled in another thread:
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=thread...arks-reviews-input-everything.2519949/page-13
Ryzen IPC is lower than Haswell, and about 12% lower than Kaby Lake (and by extension, Coffee Lake)
In CPU bound gaming, it often exceeds this 12% figure. This, plus Ryzens clockspeed deficit, is the main reason Ryzen falls behind in 1080P gaming.