Which Intel Core i7 processor should I pick?

[MrDBD]

Hi there, this is my first time building a PC and my budget for my Intel processor is from £0 to around £450. There are so many choices and I cannot decide, there are no YouTube videos for this. Please help. Thanks!

[MrDBD]

And please when you do reply, please try to include the specs and price but you don't have to.

[Magicmuhaha]

Curious, why intel specifically? And what do you want to do with said build

[MrDBD]

Intel because I have always used an Intel PC and I never used an AMD one

[MrDBD]

I also want to game on this build, the only games that I will play are Forza Horizon 4 and BeamNG.Drive and ROBLOX and maybe rocket league.

[boggy77]

what will this computer be used for? did you decide on the other components? do you have a budget for the overall system?

[MrDBD]

I have decided on the RAM, fans, GPU, case and storage. I will only onlay Forza Horizon 4, BeamNG.Drive, ROBLOX and maybe rocket league and other small games I find on Steam. Oh and school as well. My budget is around 1,600 including the monitor. I will get the monitor last as I can just connect it to TV while I find my monitor.

[boggy77]

4 minutes ago, MrDBD said:

I have decided on the RAM, fans, GPU, case and storage. I will only onlay Forza Horizon 4, BeamNG.Drive, ROBLOX and maybe rocket league and other small games I find on Steam. Oh and school as well. My budget is around 1,600 including the monitor. I will get the monitor last as I can just connect it to TV while I find my monitor.

what gpu?

[MrDBD]

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super because I really wanna play Minecraft with RTX. I mean, who doesn't?

[boggy77]

10600k if you're set on intel.

also, rather than 2070 super, get the 3070.

[MrDBD]

Oh! But what is the difference between the 2070 super and the 3070? I really don't want to spend like £100 extra just for a slightly higher frame rate.

[boggy77]

1 minute ago, MrDBD said:

Oh! But what is the difference between the 2070 super and the 3070? I really don't want to spend like £100 extra just for a slightly higher frame rate.

the reviews for the 3070 are not out yet, but it's expected to perform similarly to a 2080ti

[mahyar]

2070 super is ok and if you want to go intel i suggset i5 10600k

[MrDBD]

Ok just checked this website on the frame rate difference is incredible for RTX Minecraft! Now.. let me just check the price

[MrDBD]

Wow the price is incredibly good! Thanks for the advice!

[maizenblue]

It depends on how long you plan on keeping your cpu before upgrading. 10600k is a 6 core 12 thread CPU, while the new consoles are 8 Core and 16 thread, which means upcoming games will increasingly utilize more threads and cores than the 10600k has. For this reason and because I like to multitask and run numerous aps and stream, I would go 10700k. It should last longer.

 

On the other hand if you are someone that upgrades continually to always have the latest and greatest maybe a 10600k would be better since you'll save money you can use to upgrade a couple years from now. I split the diff by going 3700x. It has the cores and threads to last a long time but I saved enough I can upgrade early if I feel like it vs if I went with intel, but I also game at 1440p so the single core speed of intel isnt as important. 

[MrDBD]

Hey there maizenblue! Thanks, I have decided to go for the 10700k since I'm probably going to be using the same CPU for at least five, six years since I play graphicly intense games that actually use the GPU much more than the CPU. I appreciate your response. Now imma try close this thread since I have reached my answer.