CPU choice question

[Youn]

So, I found I didn't burn out my wife's cpu but have replaced her machine (she needed a new gpu anyways). 

 

This leaves me for my machine a bit of a choice... my i7-9700f or her i7-8700k. My system has a custom water cooling system with two 240mm x 15 mm radiators. 

 

 

[merco]

Well do you like overclocking? Go with the 8700k! 

[Youn]

yeah, but will an overclocked 6 core out perform a regular 8core? Note: I do know that bench marking the i7-9700f previously had it running equivalent to an i7-9700k on the charts. So, silicon lottery wise, it's a very good chip. I don't know about the 8700k...

 

[YoungBlade]

The differences will be application dependent. If your use-case benefits from clock speeds, an overclocked 8700K at 5GHz all-core will be better than the 4.5GHz all-core boost of the 9700F. If your application benefits from core/thread count, then the two will trade blows in those workloads, because while the 8700K has only 6 cores, it has 12 threads.

[merco]

YoungBlade is right, but in general I don't think the difference between the 2 will be life changing in any case. To me it's just a matter of do you like to tinker with it or not? Going with the 9700f at stock speed would also be more power efficient.

[Gohardgrandpa]

8700k for sure. You'll at least get hyper threading.