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So I recently built a Ryzen 5 2600 and I liked it ok...I ended up selling it for mostly what I had into it so it was a wash....  But as I looked at benchmarks the 9400f seemingly does just as well as the 2600 in most games....  Is there really anything massively negative about the 9400f?  I could probably get away without spending an arm and a leg on a motherboard for handling what is probably going to be a marginal increase in overclocking assuming I can dial it in and want to spend the time messing with it.  I kinda like the set it and forget it idea with the intel chip and price is fairly decent.  Has anyone built a system around this chip and if so how do you like it?

 

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the motherboard cost is generally speaking higher

the upgrade path is more limited

it can't be overclocked

the stock cooler is horrible

 

i would just stick with the 2600

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1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

the motherboard cost is generally speaking higher

the upgrade path is more limited

it can't be overclocked

the stock cooler is horrible

 

i would just stick with the 2600

What motherboards woes one use anywa? Z390. B360?

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2 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

the motherboard cost is generally speaking higher

the upgrade path is more limited

it can't be overclocked

the stock cooler is horrible

 

i would just stick with the 2600

I kept my hyper 212 LED cooler out of the old system too

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1 minute ago, Beer_Nontitju said:

What motherboards woes one use anywa? Z390. B360?

natively only b365 and z390 support it

 

but any 300 series does with a bios update

 

tho h310 isn't as good as hx10 series used to be

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What if a guy doesn't really care about overclocking or spending the time to dial in an overclock... The i5 part will turbo to 4.1 without messing with it at all and I wasn't able to get a very stable overclock on my R5 over 4ghz anyway 

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2 minutes ago, Djinnux said:

What if a guy doesn't really care about overclocking or spending the time to dial in an overclock... The i5 part will turbo to 4.1 without messing with it at all and I wasn't able to get a very stable overclock on my R5 over 4ghz anyway 

then i'd still say that upgrade path kills its value personally

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1 minute ago, Djinnux said:

What if a guy doesn't really care about overclocking or spending the time to dial in an overclock... The i5 part will turbo to 4.1 without messing with it at all and I wasn't able to get a very stable overclock on my R5 over 4ghz anyway 

ignoring the overclocking, intel motherboards cost more and the upgrade path is garbage as of now so I would just wait a month and pick up a zen 2 CPU if you're so eager

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Upgradability is the only flaw pretty much. Out of the box gaming performance is better on the 9400F, Windows works better with it (blame MS for that), and board quality is less of a concern/

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

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5 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

then i'd still say that upgrade path kills its value personally

that and lack of hyprtthreading. 

 

 

there is also allways the 3600 comming out in a month. 

 

edit: also slower memmory on lower end board lead to a lot worse performance in very specific games, such as the Division 2. something that can be very annoying

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Just now, Jurrunio said:

board quality is less of a concern

so you don't see them picking the cheapest h310?

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Why not I3 9100F which is the best value for gaming and gpu combo, IMO

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2 minutes ago, Oalei said:

there is none on PCPartPickerList but the performance is pretty much the same so yeah why not.
 

same price as the 1600. so id pick that over it any day. 

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8 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

so you don't see them picking the cheapest h310?

less of a concern doesn't mean you can go as terrible as you can find

 

7 minutes ago, Oalei said:

Why not I3 9100F which is the best value for gaming and gpu combo, IMO

because you can buy 6600k/7600k systems for cheap used and they beat the shit out of the 9100F. Cheap boards paired with the i3 wont be good for upgrading anyway

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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1 minute ago, GoldenLag said:

same price as the 1600. so id pick that over it any day. 

not here at least, well if it is the case i would too. more like 80usd here

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Just now, Oalei said:

not here at least, well if it is the case i would too. more like 80usd here

where is "here". i checked Newegg. 

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1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

because you can buy 6600k/7600k systems for cheap used and they beat the shit out of the 9100F. Cheap boards paired with the i3 wont be good for upgrading anyway

well can i get 1 for the price of an I3 here? no

everythign depends i geuss who cares.

upgradebility sucks 4c no hyperthreading also sucks but for gaming not really.

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16 minutes ago, Oalei said:

there is none on PCPartPickerList but the performance is pretty much the same so yeah why not.
 

the quad cores are already bottlenecking cards like the 1660ti, the 1600 on the other hand stays pretty smooth due to the extra cores.

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1 minute ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

 

the quad cores are already bottlenecking cards like the 1660ti, the 1600 on the other hand stays pretty smooth due to the extra cores.

i wouldnt argue with this but you know stuff do matter at my country Indonesia.

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On 7/9/2019 at 11:55 PM, NeRLeY said:

isn't the i5-9400f 6 cores?

Yes it is. 

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