Whats the Best cpu. price doesnt matter

[Civil_3021]

Whats the Best cpu. price doesnt matter

[Plutosaurus]

Depends what you're doing

[xg32]

3950x for a desktop, unless you are purely gaming then a binned 9900ks off silcon lottery for 1200usd.

[minibois]

Epyc Rome, 3950X or 9900KS (of course all the best unit you could possibly get), depending on your use.

[rcmaehl]

Depends.

IPC: Binned Intel 9900KS
Multithreaded: AMD Eypc

[Plutosaurus]

FX-8350

[D.U.F.F.]

[sphbecker]

9 minutes ago, D.U.F.F. said:

I hope you plan to water cool that beast! 3 µm isn't for a faint of heart!

[Plutosaurus]

1 hour ago, D.U.F.F. said:

 

Just in time for race wars.

 

This will decimate all, after, you put about fifteen volts into it or more. If we have to, overnight parts from Taiwan.

 

 

[Otto_iii]

1 hour ago, rcmaehl said:

Depends.

IPC: Binned Intel 9900KS
Multithreaded: AMD Eypc

9900KS is clockspeed, not IPC

[Midnitewolf]

Just to echo everyone else, it depends.  Pure gaming as of today, Intel is still the king.  If you want to do a combo of gaming and say streaming, video editing, etc, the 3950x is pretty damn amazing.  Totally blows Intel out of the water in productivity while damn near equaling it in gaming performance.  As for the future, all I can say is it is obvious that we are headed toward a point where software is going be taking much more advantage of the multi-core and multi-thread capability of processors than has been the case in the past.  That being the case, I tend to feel that the 3950x is probably the best overall mainstream processor available right now if money isn't a concern.