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That's disappointing. You must have got all the super average ones

Did you use the tips in the op? Try those if you didn't already

Yeah go for it!!!

Fans cable ties. Nb water block and cables ties. @agent_x007 you are 1st in your league on hwbot. Good effort. You should join Team MLG

Would have thought you could get much closer to 800cb on that setup tbh.

Did you steal my cpu?

You should be able to run 4-4-4 on the timing at that speed even on fb ram I would think

Sounds like a super average chip in oc terms but the price is OK.

It is a very hard choice. It is a difficult choice for sure. I think I would lean more towards the 2600+1080ti just because I don't want to upgrade for a while and I think the performance of the gpu in the games will outweigh the loss from the cpu. I think 75hz is a nice jump over 60hz and manageable for the ryzen I think if it was 120 or 144hz I would consider the 8700k more. Thanks for the advice people and thanks for not starting a fanboy war. This has been a sensible discussion compared to some other places I have posted this same topic!

you never know, 7nm 8 core ryzen might do 4.6-4.8ghz and give a massive boost in performance with navi v2 gpu

1700 should be called the 1937

games, interwebs, teamspeak/discord. no streams or videos I am thinking: 2600+1080ti -better performance now - better upgrade path for cpu so board/ram can be reused. 8700K+1080 -no cpu upgrade path but can just put a faster gpu in without upgrading cpu as well - if going to 144hz 1400p rather than 4k in future this would be better for high fps

would not upgrade the gpu for a while. would stick with the same hw for a 2-3 years until upgrading to 4k.

mainly games 1440p 75-100hz depending if 75hz monitor can oc to 100hz.