For Video editing and casual gaming i5 9600K or i7 8700?

[JoshHT]

Hi everyone, Im upgrading from a 4th gen i5. Im wondering wich cpu is better for video editing and some gaming (mostly PES 2019, Wii emulator (cemu)).

I have:

AMD Vega 56

32gb DDR4 Ram

Gigabyte Z370 DS3H

750W 80+ modular PSU

256gb SSD

 

I will work with:

After Effects

Premiere Pro

FinalCut Pro X

 

I would like to know wich cpu would be better for me between i5 9600K and i7 8700. 

Thank you already!

[Electronics Wizardy]

id get the 8700, or look at a 2700x

[Streetguru]

20 minutes ago, JoshHT said:

 

The R7 1700 is $160 right now and should be fine for the most part

 

What kind of footage?

[Princess Luna]

i7 8700 is your best pick, by the way you can even BCLK overclock it to 4.45ghz (102.98mhz base).

 

It will allow V56 to achieve its full potential at gaming while the extra threads and cache will assist greatly on your content creation.

[JoshHT]

5 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

The R7 1700 is $160 right now and should be fine for the most part

 

What kind of footage?

Im hoping to possibly get 4k editing. Im not that good in computers but Im looking forward to make a dual boot windows and mac (hacintosh)

[JoshHT]

4 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

i7 8700 is your best pick, by the way you can even BCLK overclock it to 4.45ghz (102.98mhz base).

 

It will allow V56 to achieve its full potential at gaming while the extra threads and cache will assist greatly on your content creation.

Thank you! That’s helping me highly. But how do I do what you mentioned (BCLK overclock). 

[Princess Luna]

Just now, JoshHT said:

Thank you! That’s helping me highly. But how do I do what you mentioned (BCLK overclock). 

If you do get the i7 8700 with a Z370 chipset board you should do all steps on the regarding of power on this guide:

 

https://overclocking.guide/gigabyte-z370-overclocking-coffee-lake/

 

The main difference is that since you got a locked chip instead of chancing multipliers what you do is leave Turbo Boost on and just change the base clock from the standard 100mhz to 102.98mhz.

 

This will effect your memory setting too though so you might need to fine tune the timings.

[Streetguru]

11 minutes ago, JoshHT said:

Im hoping to possibly get 4k editing. Im not that good in computers but Im looking forward to make a dual boot windows and mac (hacintosh)

I'd just buy a 9900K then so you aren't worrying about missing performance ever.

 

Still a pain to make a hackintosh though in general.

[JoshHT]

12 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

If you do get the i7 8700 with a Z370 chipset board you should do all steps on the regarding of power on this guide:

 

https://overclocking.guide/gigabyte-z370-overclocking-coffee-lake/

 

The main difference is that since you got a locked chip instead of chancing multipliers what you do is leave Turbo Boost on and just change the base clock from the standard 100mhz to 102.98mhz.

 

This will effect your memory setting too though so you might need to fine tune the timings.

Okay thank you. Ill give it a try and let you know!

[JoshHT]

21 hours ago, Streetguru said:

I'd just buy a 9900K then so you aren't worrying about missing performance ever.

 

Still a pain to make a hackintosh though in general.

I’d like to, but I’m on a budget! 

 

9 hours ago, JoshHT said:

Okay thank you. Ill give it a try and let you know!

Okay guys thanks for everything. Im considering an i7 8700k instead. Do you think I’ll be able to overclock it to 5-5.2ghz with the motherboard I currently have? Or should I spend another 150-200 to get a z780 aorus ultra or gaming 7?

[Streetguru]

On 4/24/2019 at 12:40 PM, JoshHT said:

I’d like to, but I’m on a budget! 

 

Okay guys thanks for everything. Im considering an i7 8700k instead. Do you think I’ll be able to overclock it to 5-5.2ghz with the motherboard I currently have? Or should I spend another 150-200 to get a z780 aorus ultra or gaming 7?

You can potentially sell 16GBs of RAM to get the money for the 9900K

[ImAyaanKhan]

22 hours ago, Streetguru said:

You can potentially sell 16GBs of RAM to get the money for the 9900K

That wouldn't be ideal for him, as it appears that he will be working with heavy workloads and losing RAM would limit how much he can do, and his rig is both a workstation and gaming rig. Workstation rigs typically have 32gb, and for good reason. Stop recommending the most expensive consumer-level processor he can't afford. If he wanted to buy a 9900k, you would probably try to make him get a 7980XE. Listen to what he wants and learn to back down on your suggestions when needed.

[Streetguru]

On 4/29/2019 at 11:07 AM, ImAyaanKhan said:

That wouldn't be ideal for him, as it appears that he will be working with heavy workloads and losing RAM would limit how much he can do, and his rig is both a workstation and gaming rig. Workstation rigs typically have 32gb, and for good reason. Stop recommending the most expensive consumer-level processor he can't afford. If he wanted to buy a 9900k, you would probably try to make him get a 7980XE. Listen to what he wants and learn to back down on your suggestions when needed.

You can easily add back 16GBs later, you can't easily upgrade the CPU later. It's unlikely he ends up using 32GBs of RAM in any event, I don't go over that editing 4k footage, though I'm not applying many effects to it.