Cpu choices

[AzrealNoctis]

Alright, sometime in May I'll have enough money to begin building (and actually completing) my first gaming battle station I have just about everything picked out and set in stone except for the procecer, I will have roughly 300-400 dollars for the procecer (prices be kind to me pls) the ideal procecer would have a healthy amount of room for overclocking, solid gaming performance and a good amount of worksation power since I'll be running some blender renders every so often. I'm using a Intel chipset but I'll swap boards if AMD ends up as the more optimal and ideal solution. A reasonable tdp would also be nice, but since I'm going straight to water cooling and eventually a custom loop, it shouldn't be the defining factor I don't think.

 

Edit:I don't have a mobo right now but the one I am looking at is the Asus z390 A base speed should be roughly 3.5  ghz

 

Edit again: the overall budget for this build is 2.2k

[minibois]

Ask again in May, Ryzen 4000 apparently will show up at that point and Intel 10th series too maybe?

At the moment, a 3700X is a really good choice. Not much overclocking room in that chip though.

[emosun]

you haven't listed what board you selected , also haven't listed what speed of cpu you're actually looking for just feature requirements

[LukeLinusFanFic]

What do you mean by "using an Intel chipset"? Do you already have a motherboard?

 

What's your overall budget? Frankly, for gaming and the occasional render, you need nothing more than the ryzen 3600.

[Mathieu9836]

Budget, what a you doing with your PC, what do you want to do.

AMD as a better offering then Intel IMO, price/performance ratio is better.

[Harry Voyager]

Ryzen 5 3600X. It's a six core chip, does 3.8Ghz base with a 4.4 Ghz boost, costs about $240, and comes with a decent cooler. Get that and pair it with either DDR 3600 or low cas DDR 3200, and you should get 95% of the gaming performance of an I9-9900K out of the box. 

 

If you've got a Microcenter near by, they'll have it for less, and have a number of motherboard bundles to cut costs further. 

[Sorenson]

If you already have a Z370/390 board I would go with a 9700k. If you swapper to AMD you would only be able to afford a 3600x+b450 mobo in your budget which wouldn’t make much sense.

[Fasauceome]

19 minutes ago, AzrealNoctis said:

I'm using a Intel chipset

what setup do you have now? If it's current gen you have some options. also you could possibly look forward to black friday deals.

[AzrealNoctis]

1 hour ago, emosun said:

you haven't listed what board you selected , also haven't listed what speed of cpu you're actually looking for just feature requirements

I edited the original post with the missing info

[Mathieu9836]

46 minutes ago, AzrealNoctis said:

I edited the original post with the missing info

2200USD???

[AzrealNoctis]

1 hour ago, Mathieu9836 said:

2200USD???

That's the overall cost of all the parts I have currently chosen

[AzrealNoctis]

But specifically the budget I have for the CPU is 200-400