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Ryanwake
By Ryanwake
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Help me pick a cpu  

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  1. 1. Help me pick a cpu

    • R5 1600 $99
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    • R5 2600 $120
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    • R7 2700 $170
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    • R5 3600 $194
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I just spent an hour looking at benchmarks and I'm even more confused, hopefully you guys can help.

 

Feel free and try and convince me to consider an Intel PC but I was hoping to upgrade my CPU in the future.

 

And I think I would have to spend like $30 more on the motherboard if I got 2700 X, plus I haven't seen very many benchmarks that take advantage of the extra 2 cores to match it but it's always close.

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Also what does The X Mean, I think it means 95 Watts vs 65 Watts, but I assume they're pretty similar after you overclock it right?

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3600. 2700 or 2700x is great for budget productivity. In gaming, 3600 beats 2700x, but in productivity software that favorite in multi core, 2700x beats 3600.

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12 minutes ago, Ryanwake said:

And I think I would have to spend like $30 more on the motherboard if I got 2700 X, plus I haven't seen very many benchmarks that take advantage of the extra 2 cores to match it but it's always close.

you are picking from 100~200 range, meaning your gpu wont be anything crazy, gaming performance will be very similar on all of your choices.

2600/2700 will be good enough for most use case for a long time

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26 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

you are picking from 100~200 range, meaning your gpu wont be anything crazy, gaming performance will be very similar on all of your choices.

2600/2700 will be good enough for most use case for a long time

You think the 3600 will go down at least a little bit, I'm probably not going to get anything at least until November / December, if I get anything first if we the board or the ram.

 

Or should I just deal hunt

Or bite the bullet and spend 50-60, and by everything at the same time?

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4 minutes ago, Ryanwake said:

You think the 3600 will go down at least a little bit,

sure, it should follow price trend as 2600 last yr

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8 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

sure, it should follow price trend as 2600 last yr

If you're right then we might even see it at $150 this year, what's that a price alert hopefully Black Friday or something

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