CPU Price

[FreelanceNewbie]

Just needed some clarity i was looking at cpu prices and specs on pcpartspicker (planning to do a build) and i noticed that AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Intel Core i7-10700K cpu and almost the same price. given that intel is better specs of the three, should i focus an intel build now? I was looking to do amd with a Ryzen 5 5600X, but wont i get better bang for buck with intel? or are the prices high due to demand and availability right now?

 

ps: not doing the build right now, just some planning.

 

 

[svmlegacy]

8 minutes ago, FreelanceNewbie said:

Just needed some clarity i was looking at cpu prices and specs on pcpartspicker (planning to do a build) and i noticed that AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Intel Core i7-10700K cpu and almost the same price. given that intel is better specs of the three, should i focus an intel build now? I was looking to do amd with a Ryzen 5 5600X, but wont i get better bang for buck with intel? or are the prices high due to demand and availability right now?

 

ps: not doing the build right now, just some planning.

Depends on what you're doing with the machine.

 

When comparing the price of Intel CPU's to AMD CPU's, keep in mind that the motherboard price is often different for the same feature-level.

[Entropy.]

32 minutes ago, FreelanceNewbie said:

Just needed some clarity i was looking at cpu prices and specs on pcpartspicker (planning to do a build) and i noticed that AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Intel Core i7-10700K cpu and almost the same price. given that intel is better specs of the three, should i focus an intel build now? I was looking to do amd with a Ryzen 5 5600X, but wont i get better bang for buck with intel? or are the prices high due to demand and availability right now?

 

ps: not doing the build right now, just some planning.

 

 

It'll depend on what you're doing and your priorities. The 5600x has superior gaming performance, is fine with a cheaper motherboard, and has a stock cooler. The 3700x is probably the cheapest of the bunch, has 8 cores (good for heavily threaded tasks like say, video editing) but isn't all that great at tasks more dependent on a high ips and fast clocks, E.g gaming. The 10700k doesn't come with a stock cooler and will need a more expensive motherboard if you want to overclock than the rest, but It has 8 cores and middle-of-the-road gaming performance, in between the 3700x ("worst," generally) and the 5600x ("best") 

[FreelanceNewbie]

52 minutes ago, Brok3n But who cares? said:

It'll depend on what you're doing and your priorities. The 5600x has superior gaming performance, is fine with a cheaper motherboard, and has a stock cooler. The 3700x is probably the cheapest of the bunch, has 8 cores (good for heavily threaded tasks like say, video editing) but isn't all that great at tasks more dependent on a high ips and fast clocks, E.g gaming. The 10700k doesn't come with a stock cooler and will need a more expensive motherboard if you want to overclock than the rest, but It has 8 cores and middle-of-the-road gaming performance, in between the 3700x ("worst," generally) and the 5600x ("best") 

thank you, i got a better idea of what ill go about doing