CPU FOR GAMING?!

[Merds]

Hi guys I have now found what gpu I am going to buy now; but I am stuck for when it come so to cpu's. AMD or Intel doesn't bother me at all, as long as there is no bottle neck with the RX 470 8GB, and will be fine for gaming for the next few years! 

 

P.S. Up to £200 UK Sterling 

[Merds]

Just now, Merds said:

Hi guys I have now found what gpu I am going to buy now; but I am stuck for when it come so to cpu's. AMD or Intel doesn't bother me at all, as long as there is no bottle neck with the RX 470 8GB, and will be fine for gaming for the next few years! 

 

P.S. Up to £200 UK Sterling 

The cheaper the better btw, £200 is max budget but I would like to spend a lot less then that! ?

[Princess Luna]

You posted on the wrong section,

Either go Skylake if you don't want to wait or wait for Ryzen/Kaby Lake releases and buy what performs better on benchmarks.

 

Just now, Blackhole890 said:

wait for amd zen because after their release, cpu prices will go down

Prices will not go down with their releases, Intel manufactures an extremely controlled amount of CPUs so the tech shops never have stocks of them, it is almost a on demand system, they cost what they cost thus why they have never drop in price on any previous big/small releases.

Unless he is going for an used Skylake from some enthusiast that couldn't wait to get its hand on Kaby Lake or Ryzen he will won't be saving any $ at all.

[Blackhole890]

1 hour ago, Merds said:

Hi guys I have now found what gpu I am going to buy now; but I am stuck for when it come so to cpu's. AMD or Intel doesn't bother me at all, as long as there is no bottle neck with the RX 470 8GB, and will be fine for gaming for the next few years! 

 

P.S. Up to £200 UK Sterling 

wait for amd zen because after their release, cpu prices maybe* go down

[Merds]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

You posted on the wrong section,

Either go Skylake if you don't want to wait or wait for Ryzen/Kaby Lake releases and buy what performs better on benchmarks.

? thank you! Btw I'm a rookie only been on this forum since last night 

[mapegl]

Just now, Blackhole890 said:

wait for amd zen because after their release, cpu prices will go down

Good idea to wait just a little bit. If the ipc on and CPUs is similar between Intel and AMD, then there could be some price drops indeed. Or you may be able to pick up something with a higher core count from amd. 

[Merds]

2 minutes ago, Blackhole890 said:

wait for amd zen because after their release, cpu prices will go down

Good point bro! Will definitely do that, also isn't Ryzen being released during early next year?

[Princess Luna]

5 minutes ago, Merds said:

Good point bro! Will definitely do that, also isn't Ryzen being released during early next year?

Prices will not go down with their releases, Intel manufactures an extremely controlled amount of CPUs so the tech shops never have stocks of them, it is almost a on demand system, they cost what they cost thus why they have never drop in price on any previous big/small releases.

Unless you're going for an used Skylake from some enthusiast that couldn't wait to get its hand on Kaby Lake or Ryzen you will won't be saving any $ at all.

 

We've also seen that there will be at best a 5%~10% increase of performance between Skylake and Kaby Lake which isn't going to change much in real world and both will be good till late 2020, early 2021 when you'll have to buy a new one either ways to stay upgraded.

 

Ryzen will struggle competing with Skylake, it has a lot of hype but all  its "numbers" were from AMD propaganda in a very hiding way which can easily lead us to think its performance won't be anything new, on my personal note Skylakes might still end up in front of them.

[hconverse02]

18 minutes ago, Merds said:

Hi guys I have now found what gpu I am going to buy now; but I am stuck for when it come so to cpu's. AMD or Intel doesn't bother me at all, as long as there is no bottle neck with the RX 470 8GB, and will be fine for gaming for the next few years! 

 

P.S. Up to £200 UK Sterling 

Yeah wait for (ry)zen then both intel and and prices will change

[Whitecrystall]

20 minutes ago, Merds said:

Hi guys I have now found what gpu I am going to buy now; but I am stuck for when it come so to cpu's. AMD or Intel doesn't bother me at all, as long as there is no bottle neck with the RX 470 8GB, and will be fine for gaming for the next few years! 

 

P.S. Up to £200 UK Sterling 

Waiting for ryzen as mentioned is a good idea however if you want one now i would go i3 6100

[Droidbot]

20 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Prices will not go down with their releases, Intel manufactures an extremely controlled amount of CPUs so the tech shops never have stocks of them, it is almost a on demand system, they cost what they cost thus why they have never drop in price on any previous big/small releases.

Unless you're going for an used Skylake from some enthusiast that couldn't wait to get its hand on Kaby Lake or Ryzen you will won't be saving any $ at all.

 

We've also seen that there will be at best a 5%~10% increase of performance between Skylake and Kaby Lake which isn't going to change much in real world and both will be good till late 2020, early 2021 when you'll have to buy a new one either ways to stay upgraded.

 

Ryzen will struggle competing with Skylake, it has a lot of hype but all  its "numbers" were from AMD propaganda in a very hiding way which can easily lead us to think its performance won't be anything new, on my personal note Skylakes might still end up in front of them.

Stop spewing garbage. AMD showed off what is definitely a good architecture. They released how they got their numbers and lots of details. Kaby Lake is such a minor upgrade from Skylake as shown with ES KLake CPUs. (Keep in mind not final, but near final stepping one would imagine) There was a very small (3% or so) clock-for-clock performance gain over Skylake and that IMO isn't worth the upgrade. The i3-k was put in to tide over this release, and that was it. Intel has nothing to bring to the table and I honestly expect Ryzen to really hit them where it hurts. Ryzen will decrease CPU prices as leaked documents have shown very competitive price points - finally someone can challenge Intel's monopoly on the mid-high end CPU market in recent years. 

 

You also posted the same identical information twice. Nice. 

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Stop spewing garbage. AMD showed off what is definitely a good architecture. They released how they got their numbers and lots of details. Kaby Lake is such a minor upgrade from Skylake as shown with ES KLake CPUs. (Keep in mind not final, but near final stepping one would imagine) There was a very small (3% or so) clock-for-clock performance gain over Skylake and that IMO isn't worth the upgrade. The i3-k was put in to tide over this release, and that was it. Intel has nothing to bring to the table and I honestly expect Ryzen to really hit them where it hurts. Ryzen will decrease CPU prices as leaked documents have shown very competitive price points - finally someone can challenge Intel's monopoly on the mid-high end CPU market in recent years. 

 

You also posted the same identical information twice. Nice. 

Just because our opinions do not meet an agreement calling what I said garbage will hardly earn you points, do attempt to stay polite when addressing others, that counts more unless your sole reason is to start an argue in which I'm not taking place.

 

Do not get me wrong, I am all up for a nice competition between AMD and Intel since the one who'll win most is the end consumer however to think AMD will simply beat Intel due to Ryzen and have such hope in price decreases is at best a childish hope, this market is quite rigid even with this "competition", AMD as much as it  would be nice to see won't "destroy" Intel only with it's propaganda and when their products hit the shells we will see that in reality the changes will always be minimal, there is only so much a companie can do in improvements and profit is still their end game.

 

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[Princess Luna]

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