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Should I get the i5-9600k or the 5 3600?

1 minute ago, redbrickwhale said:

They are both about the same price but the intel one is slightly cheaper.

Or you can wait for Ryzen 4th gen that's right around the corner. I'm sure that's what a ton of people here would say.

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Why are you considering lga1151? it's a platform that wont get updated and is more or less dead, either comet lake or zen 2, or you could wait for zen 3 and check what it has to offer. 

but to answer your question, i'd say the 3600, but workload?

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15 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Or you can wait for Ryzen 4th gen that's right around the corner. I'm sure that's what a ton of people here would say.

The 4000 series is only available on prebuilts or laptops

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15 hours ago, Zenith_X1 said:

Like with anything, we don't know your use case for this CPU so we can't make a good, well-informed recommendation

Gaming only

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15 hours ago, TofuHaroto said:

Why are you considering lga1151? it's a platform that wont get updated and is more or less dead, either comet lake or zen 2, or you could wait for zen 3 and check what it has to offer. 

but to answer your question, i'd say the 3600, but workload?

My use case is gaming 

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10 hours ago, redbrickwhale said:

The 4000 series is only available on prebuilts or laptops

those are the apu's, which are zen 2, zen 3 is not released yet. 

10 hours ago, redbrickwhale said:

My use case is gaming 

as i said. 

On 9/16/2020 at 11:03 AM, TofuHaroto said:

Why are you considering lga1151? it's a platform that wont get updated and is more or less dead, either comet lake or zen 2, or you could wait for zen 3 and check what it has to offer. 

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9600K only has 6 core 6 thread. Even mainly for gaming......I won't recommend.

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If your end-all be-all goal is gaming and nothing else, probably a 10600k or higher, depending on your budget.  Frequency is king for gaming and it's the only area where AMD isn't giving Intel the smackdown.

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