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Hi guys! I am building a new gaming PC, I am going for the 5700XT since it gives the best performance in its price range. I was wounder what CPU you would recommend? Right now I am thinking about the i5 9600K. I will be playing 1440p. Is it worth the money going to i7 for gaming? Wilm i5 bottleneck?

 

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2 minutes ago, Trumerik said:

Hi guys! I am building a new gaming PC, I am going for the 5700XT since it gives the best performance in its price range. I was wounder what CPU you would recommend? Right now I am thinking about the i5 9600K. I will be playing 1440p. Is it worth the money going to i7 for gaming? Wilm i5 bottleneck?

 

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i believe the general consensus would be to go with a ryzen 5 3600 and a b450 board

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at 1440p you wont see any difference between an R5 or i5 or i7 without some really good GPU, say the 2070 Super with a 144Hz monitor.

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Ok, so will a B450 board be enough. Or should one aim for a X570? And ryzen 3600 or 3600X? The 3600X seems better, but a bit more expensive

 

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2 minutes ago, Trumerik said:

Ok, so will a B450 board be enough. Or should one aim for a X570?

Good B450 boards like the MSI ATX ones will do, if not others like the Asus TUF Pro is also fine unless you want PCIe 4.0 and do more than just gaming heavily. 3rd gen draws as much power as 1st gen parts of the same core count.

 

4 minutes ago, Trumerik said:

nd ryzen 3600 or 3600X? The 3600X seems better, but a bit more expensive

Unless you aim to buy 3600MHz CL16/17 kit and overclock them further, the benefits of the better binned and at stock, faster 3600x isn't worth the price increase.

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2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Good B450 boards like the MSI ATX ones will do, if not others like the Asus TUF Pro is also fine unless you want PCIe 4.0 and do more than just gaming heavily. 3rd gen draws as much power as 1st gen parts of the same core count.

 

Unless you aim to buy 3600MHz CL16/17 kit and overclock them further, the benefits of the better binned and at stock, faster 3600x isn't worth the price increase.

Ok. But as far as choosing the 9600K or 3600 the price is no difference. Is Ryzen still better in gaming, or is it supposed to be cheapers than i5?

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1 hour ago, Trumerik said:

Ok. But as far as choosing the 9600K or 3600 the price is no difference. Is Ryzen still better in gaming, or is it supposed to be cheapers than i5?

which is better will depend on the game. Think of the 3600 as the alternative of Intel's i7-8700, lower clock speed than the 9600k but SMT lets it pull ahead in multithread performance.

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1 hour ago, Trumerik said:

Ok. But as far as choosing the 9600K or 3600 the price is no difference. Is Ryzen still better in gaming, or is it supposed to be cheapers than i5?

The 3600 is a better all around CPU than the 9600k. You will be essentially the same gaming performance out of both cpus especially because you will most definitely be gpu bottlenecked which isn't a bad thing. As for anything else the 3600 will win 99% of the time. Also if you are not interested in overclocking the 3600 is a much better cpu as it comes out of the box with amazing performance while the 8600k really needs to be overclocked in order for it to be worth its cost. It should also be noted that the motherboards required for overclocking any 9th gen intel cpu are quite a bit more expensive than a b450 motherboard capable of overclocking the 3600. 

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Ok, but if I would to i7, would i be better to go i7 or R7? I am not too good at cpus so thanks for help

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1 hour ago, Trumerik said:

Ok, but if I would to i7, would i be better to go i7 or R7? I am not too good at cpus so thanks for help

Personally I wouldn't buy anything less than a 9900k from intel. The 9700k makes me nervous that it will have some of the same issues the current i5 cpus have in the future with its lack of hyperthreading. As for AMD the 3700x is a good CPU and probably what I would get between the i7 and r7. 

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5 hours ago, Trumerik said:

Ok, but if I would to i7, would i be better to go i7 or R7? I am not too good at cpus so thanks for help

Unless you do streaming or other multithread work, you'll need much stronger GPUs than the 5700XT to see a difference between i7 and R7 to R5

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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Dude the i7 or i5 are useless nowadays because they lack any multithreading but AMD has SMT in their whole lineup. If you need an i5 equivalent then the 3600/X will be the best choice as it makes up in everything else that it loses in that little bit of gaming performance. The i7 equivalent is of course the 3700X/3800X where the same is true. Not to mention the Intel security issues and the SMT advantage so there you have my take on it. 3600/3700X however your budget allows it. 

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