Which i5 should I get?

[Johnatron 101]

I am planning to give my gaming PC a much needed update in a few months by replacing my motherboard with a gigabyte z390 ud and my 1600mhz  16gb of corsair vengeance (quad channel)  with 16gb of 3000mhz corsair lpx (dual channel). However, I am not 100% sure on what Intel core I should go for (my old processor was a i5 4670k) that costs around about £200/$250. Let me know if anyone has any ideas .

[glenalz81]

Not sure anyone would recommend an i5 build right now.

[5x5]

None. The Ryzen 5 3600 annihilates intel i5s in almost every scenario. It's cooler, more power efficient and doesn't suffer from the security issues in intel CPUs such as spectre, meltdown, foreshadow and etc

[Epimetheus]

Yeah i triple on that, no reason to buy an i5 right now

[Oalei]

i want to quad it, dont buy i5 for now

[eemunni]

I will quintuple it. Don't buy i5 now

[Fakmykak]

Buy a new 7600k. Best deal on the market currently. Trust me.

[Senzelian]

Which GPU are you using at the moment and do you plan on upgrading that too?

[Johnatron 101]

1 minute ago, Senzelian said:

Which GPU are you using at the moment and do you plan on upgrading that too?

I am using a Gigabyte Geforce Gtx 1070 G1 Gaming and I don't have any plans on upgrading (although SLI is quite tempting...)

[5x5]

5 minutes ago, Johnatron 101 said:

I am using a Gigabyte Geforce Gtx 1070 G1 Gaming and I don't have any plans on upgrading (although SLI is quite tempting...)

SLI is dead. Support for it is minimal and most games have issues with microatuttering with it enabled.

[Senzelian]

1 minute ago, Johnatron 101 said:

I am using a Gigabyte Geforce Gtx 1070 G1 Gaming and I don't have any plans on upgrading (although SLI is quite tempting...)

Alright.
I'm not sure if it was mentioned before, but the Ryzen 5 3600 is a really good choice  

I wouldn't upgrade to an i5 or even i7 in your case.

 

SLI is something I wouldn't recommend anymore. SLI support is officially dead for over 2 years now and mGPU support with DX12 isn't exactly doing well.

[Slottr]

26 minutes ago, Fakmykak said:

Buy a new 7600k. Best deal on the market currently. Trust me.

That's incredibly untrue, the 7600k would be an absolute redundant chip to purchase with the current mid range Ryzen processors competing with intel's high end.

[Epimetheus]

15 hours ago, Fakmykak said:

Buy a new 7600k. Best deal on the market currently. Trust me.

The 7600k would be the worst i5 on the market, if It wasn't discontinued. The 100 dollars Ryzen 5 1600 beats it

[Katarn]

i5? That is a strange way to spell R5 3600.

[LeSheen]

18 hours ago, 5x5 said:

 doesn't suffer from the security issues in intel CPUs such as spectre, meltdown, foreshadow and etc

Well that's a common misconception. AMD doesn't suffer from meltdown. However, it does from some specter vulnerabilities. (not all) If I'm not mistaken you need physical access for most if not all. So it doesn't really concern the majority of users.

[5x5]

8 minutes ago, LeSheen said:

Well that's a common misconception. AMD doesn't suffer from meltdown. However, it does from some specter vulnerabilities. (not all) If I'm not mistaken you need physical access for most if not all. So it doesn't really concern the majority of users.

It actually got fixed with the later BIOS and OS updates since only part of Spectre could be applied to Ryzen via physical access. Unlike Intel, performance or features on Ryzen weren't lost

[Brent744]

Just throwing this out there... the Ryzen 7 2700 and 2700x are selling for $188 USD and $211 USD on certain online retailers at the moment, probably wont last long. Crazy deal

[Epimetheus]

46 minutes ago, Brent744 said:

Just throwing this out there... the Ryzen 7 2700 and 2700x are selling for $188 USD and $211 USD on certain online retailers at the moment, probably wont last long. Crazy deal

I know at least the 2700 goes for that now