Questions about what CPU should I get

[EddE171]

Budget (including currency): about 280$

Country: Romania (ahhh) xd

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Im running a Minecraft server for my friends and playing Minecraft of course (DUUUH) . I think the cpu should have good single threaded performance but I would like at least 6 threads

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

I play at 4k 60hz I have a 1050 Ti and an I3 6100.( no K  ) also socket LGA 1151 . The GPU is perfectly good for Minecraft and for the other games I play . I m planning on buying the Noctua nhc 14s because my case is kinda slim-ish.I was  thinking about the I5 9600k or the I7 9700k but the I7 is a bit too expensive for me.

Thanks for reading XD

[EddE171]

oooo yeah! the currency is NOT Canadian

 

[SupaKomputa]

Get a 7700k, you can't use 9600k without buying a new motherboard.

with that budget it's a no go.

[Noah0302]

With your budget you might be able to get a new motherboard + a Ryzen 3600, if you can get a good deal.

Its 100% fast enough for hosting and playing minecraft, with the addition of it having 6 cores 12 threads

[Hotseff]

12 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Get a 7700k, you can't use 9600k without buying a new motherboard.

with that budget it's a no go.

He didn't list the motherboard so I'm going to guess it's an non Z board. So I personally wouldn't go for a K model unless it's about the same price or less. So if he wasn't going to upgrade anything besides the CPU I'd say buy an i5-6400 or i5-7400.

1 hour ago, EddE171 said:

Budget (including currency): about 280$

Country: Romania (ahhh) xd

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Im running a Minecraft server for my friends and playing Minecraft of course (DUUUH) . I think the cpu should have good single threaded performance but I would like at least 6 threads

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

I play at 4k 60hz I have a 1050 Ti and an I3 6100.( no K  ) also socket LGA 1151 . The GPU is perfectly good for Minecraft and for the other games I play . I m planning on buying the Noctua nhc 14s because my case is kinda slim-ish.I was  thinking about the I5 9600k or the I7 9700k but the I7 is a bit too expensive for me.

Thanks for reading XD

If possible I'd wait till you have more money since your going to want to do a full upgrade some time soon anyways. That way you don't waste your money doing a small upgrade on your current system which wouldn't be able to be brought to the new one and you can then put that money towards a getting better parts for that new system. Other wise like I said above I'd go with an i5-6400 or i5-7400 with whichever is cheaper being what I'd buy since there isn't too much of an improvement between Skylake(6000 series) and Kabylake(7000 series).

[Boyohan]

43 minutes ago, Noah0302 said:

With your budget you might be able to get a new motherboard + a Ryzen 3600, if you can get a good deal.

Its 100% fast enough for hosting and playing minecraft, with the addition of it having 6 cores 12 threads

I don't think he has the budget for that as OP would also need to upgrade his RAM.  An i3 6100 doesn't support DDR4 RAM over 2133mhz and that would be terrible for a Ryzen CPU. 

42 minutes ago, Hotseff said:

So if he wasn't going to upgrade anything besides the CPU I'd say buy an i5-6400 or i5-7400.

Agreed.

If @EddE171 want to keep the current setup but still upgrade CPU the best option would be i5 from 6th or 7th gen Intel. 

i7 is probably much more expensive and doesn't warrant the extra cost. 

You can't upgrade to 8th or 9th gen Intel because of the different CPU pin layout of LGA 1151 v1 vs LGA 1151 v2. 

 

A new i5 from 6th or 7th gen Intel is only a small upgrade so you are most likely better of saving som extra money for a few months and upgrade CPU+Mobo+RAM.

Or maybe a completely new build... ?

 

[EddE171]

thanks for the replies. I m stupid and I didnt know that the pin layout was different on 8th or 9th gen CPU s. Noah0302 i will probably do that

 

[EddE171]

thanks for the replies. I m stupid and I didnt know that the pin layout was different on 8th or 9th gen CPU s. Noah0302 i will probably do that

 

[EddE171]

i have a gigabyte z170 hd3p cf mobo