Amd 3700x or intel i7 9700k

TheDankKoosh · November 27, 2019

1 hour ago, Los said:

I don’t know if I should go with the i7 9700k or the 3700x my only focus is on gaming and nothing else like editing.

If you know how to overclock ram along with tightening timings and tweaking the fabric clock on the 3700x then go with that, if you don't know a thing about overclocking then grab the 9700k, keep in mind that if you're pairing a 9700k with a super high end gpu and a 1080p monitor (no reason to do this) then you may experience some stutter in some badly coded games unless you set a manual framerate cap.

Coachdude · November 27, 2019

2 hours ago, Plutosaurus said:

Don't buy anything without HT/SMT

In my opinion

You'll regret it like every other person who comes on this forum who has an i5 and makes a thread asking for upgrade advice

This ^. The i7 9700K is what the 9th gen i5 should have been. It's a gimped part for purely product segmentation, and will age as such. 6C/6T i5s are already struggling to maintain consistent frame times in some games and I can't imagine an 8 core 8 threaded processor will last that much longer, especially considering next gen console designs are confirmed to have 8C/16T. And yes, console cpus do have specific power and tdp constraints, and will be clocked lower, but keep in mind that most console games target 30-60 fps, so if you're going to be targeting high refresh rates in next gen triple A games you can be fairly certain you're going to require a bit more horsepower than what the consoles are even going to have.

To the op, get the 3700X. The extra thread capacity will let this part age much more gracefully than the 9700K which can already be tapped out fairly easily in games like Battlefield 5 64 player high refresh. In my personal opinion, I wouldn't get ANY processor that lacks SMT or Hyperthreading. You're giving up too much for what little gain there may be in current gen games.