Ray_V

The cores of the Ryzen are what drew my attention to it in the first place, but after analyzing my situation I think that I could benefit more from the higher clock speed of the i7 or i5, however I will definitely take your opinion into consideration as I continue looking into this, many thanks!

Awesome, I'll look into the video, thanks! I think I'll check out the 8700 once again, as both of you have recommended, maybe the higher price won't be that big of a deal with being able to cheap up on the motherboard and cooler, many thanks!

I was considering an i7 8700, but I know that it cannot be overclocked, which could prove troublesome down a the line, also since I currently live in Mexico, the price is about 1.5x that of the US, so it's almost double of the i5, and seeing as to how the i5 has comparable performance in games, I thought it wouldn't be that much different in game development. Also, I must point out that as of now, I primarily use Unity and have used Unreal a lot less often, but that is only because it takes SO LONG to load on my current PC.

You're absolutely right, I hadn't thought about that, but it makes a ton of sense, I'll keep it in mind!

Hello everyone, I'm currently looking for the parts to build my very first PC, which I plan on using for game development on Unity and Unreal, as well as some light gaming on the side and maybe some programming work with Visual Studio. Right now I'm looking into what processor could be a good fit for the type of work I'm going to be doing and as of now I have two in mind, Intel's i5 8600k and AMD's Ryzen 1700X. I'm leaning more towards the i5 because I know it has a higher clock speed and usually performs better in single-threaded applications and games, however the Ryzen's cores could prove useful when compiling code and when using Unreal which does take advantage of multiple cores as opposed to Unity which I think doesn't. I'm thinking of getting a GTX 1070ti as my GPU, and I plan on gaming at 1440 with maybe 60+ FPS. So I'm asking for your opinions, which of the two could be the best fit (or any other that could work better), and if someone has any experience with those when using Unreal or unity, thanks for your time!