1700 or 7700K for Gaming?

[vshah]

So I've been looking at some of the first benchmark videos for Ryzen from Kyle, Paul, and Jay and I've seen, specifically in the two videos at the bottom, that the 7700K beats the 1700 quite considerably in gaming. Is this still the case and should I buy the 1700 or 7700K in terms of gaming only?

 

 

[Megah3rtz]

Are you ONLY gaming? 

[TheDankKoosh]

On 6/7/2017 at 8:20 PM, vshah said:

So I've been looking at some of the first benchmark videos for Ryzen from Kyle, Paul, and Jay and I've seen, specifically in the two videos at the bottom, that the 7700K beats the 1700 quite considerably in gaming. Is this still the case and should I buy the 1700 or 7700K in terms of gaming only?

I would consider the 1700 for future proofing and because it gets better minimum framerates in games.

[NicholasNicholasNicholas]

On 6/7/2017 at 8:20 PM, vshah said:

So I've been looking at some of the first benchmark videos for Ryzen from Kyle, Paul, and Jay and I've seen, specifically in the two videos at the bottom, that the 7700K beats the 1700 quite considerably in gaming. Is this still the case and should I buy the 1700 or 7700K in terms of gaming only?

while it may be better in games, ryzen is still very new and is unoptimized for games. it will get better with time, also, ryzen is better for literally EVERYTHING else. so if you like having several tabs open at once, youll want to go with ryzen. it also gives you more choices if lets say one day you decide you wanna start making youtube videos or streaming. the extra cores will also help, not to mention am4 is going to have a long, long upgrade path, while lga 1151 is on its way out.

[JJVGaming]

7700k if u r just gaming, but 1700 if u r multitasking (r7 is better deal tbh tho, becuz its still a great cpu for gaming)

[woowie]

7700k dont listen to all them ryzen boys out there. You can also find coolers easily

[CIubFoot]

Ryzen for dem cores. Intel for dem games.

[vshah]

6 minutes ago, Megah3rtz said:

Are you ONLY gaming? 

No, I usually have a lot of tabs on chrome open (I have 52 open right now). It's more or less just gaming and a lot of Chrome tabs.

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, vshah said:

No, I usually have a lot of tabs on chrome open (I have 52 open right now). It's more or less just gaming and a lot of Chrome tabs.

go for ryzen than 

[yathis]

Chrome is ram sensitive I believe.

[vshah]

7 minutes ago, Nickathom said:

while it may be better in games, ryzen is still very new and is unoptimized for games. it will get better with time, also, ryzen is better for literally EVERYTHING else. so if you like having several tabs open at once, youll want to go with ryzen. it also gives you more choices if lets say one day you decide you wanna start making youtube videos or streaming. the extra cores will also help, not to mention am4 is going to have a long, long upgrade path, while lga 1151 is on its way out.

Okay, thanks for your input!! I was already leaning towards the 1700 and I'm definitely gonna get it now.

[woowie]

1 minute ago, vshah said:

No, I usually have a lot of tabs on chrome open (I have 52 open right now). It's more or less just gaming and a lot of Chrome tabs.

what u doing boi, with 52 chrome tabs

[The Sloth]

Just now, yathis said:

Chrome is ram sensitive I believe.

chrome is ram and CPU sensitive, it will depend on what OP is doing. 

[vshah]

1 minute ago, woowie said:

what u doing boi, with 52 chrome tabs

I'm addicted to some stuff...

[NicholasNicholasNicholas]

8 minutes ago, woowie said:

7700k dont listen to all them ryzen boys out there. You can also find coolers easily

the 7700k is overrated. it has low minimums compared to ryzen

[woowie]

7700k, you can open stuff faster, ryzen 1700 is over rateeddd

[The Sloth]

Just now, edward30 said:

Nope. Chrome only consumes enough cycles to worry about when it is loading in content, or is running some really nasty JS. You could easily let 8GB of chrome tabs sit in the background and game with negligible (if any) performance impact.

you are incorrect, if you have video playing or anything other than basic websites, it will take up resources

[vshah]

Just now, edward30 said:

Nope. Chrome only consumes enough cycles to worry about when it is loading in content, or is running some really nasty JS. You could easily let 8GB of chrome tabs sit in the background and game with negligible (if any) performance impact.

I'm at 85% ram usage with 52 Chrome tabs open with 8GB of ram

[NicholasNicholasNicholas]

Just now, woowie said:

7700k, you can open stuff faster, ryzen 1700 is over rateeddd

nice way to take a serious argument and ignore it

[NicholasNicholasNicholas]

1 minute ago, edward30 said:

I should of qualified -- if you have 16GB of RAM. Those chrome tabs mean nothing to your gaming performance.

not many people have 16 gigs though

[The Sloth]

Just now, edward30 said:

I should of qualified -- if you have 16GB of RAM. Those chrome tabs mean nothing to your gaming performance.

yes it will, if OP has 1080p video and a podcast open, it will impact OPs gaming experience.  

[vshah]

On 6/7/2017 at 8:41 PM, edward30 said:

I should of qualified -- if you have 16GB of RAM. Those chrome tabs mean nothing to your gaming performance.

Yes, which is what I will have. But a lot of those are youtube tabs/some do have things updating so the CPU will still have some load on it with Chrome.

On 6/7/2017 at 8:43 PM, nerdslayer1 said:

yes it will, if OP has 1080p video and a podcast open, it will impact OPs gaming experience.  

I'm gonna have a 1080, though. So I should still be above 60 FPS

[SirFlamenco]

7700k if gaming it's way better and AMD lied for gaming

[NicholasNicholasNicholas]

Just now, SirFlamenco said:

7700k if gaming it's way better and AMD lied for gaming

no... just no.
7700k has lower minimums, which, in most peoples opinion, is worse as the screen is not smooth. 

[The Sloth]

3 minutes ago, vshah said:

I'm gonna have a 1080, though. So I should still be above 60 FPS

don't think that's what OP is aiming for, a ryzen 1600 can multitask better while keeping a solid 60 fps. unless OP wants to push 144 hz, a ryzen 1600 will be cheaper, spend the extra on a better gpu.