Should someone buy Ryzen?

[Xreldo]

Is it worth it for someone who mainly games (Multitasks). CAD sometimes to get Ryzen 1800x instead of 7700k which is best for gaming.

If games supported more cores would Ryzen be better?

Would one get more gain than the other if both were run with 2400hz 32gb corsair RAM?

[Woofly94]

Just now, Xreldo said:

Is it worth it for someone who mainly games. CAD sometimes to get Ryzen 1800x instead of 7700k which is best for gaming.

If games supported more cores would Ryzen be better?

Would one get more gain than the other if both were run with 2400hz 32gb corsair RAM?

I7 7700k is better for gaming

 

[MorganO]

1 minute ago, Xreldo said:

Is it worth it for someone who mainly games (Multitasks). CAD sometimes to get Ryzen 1800x instead of 7700k which is best for gaming.

If games supported more cores would Ryzen be better?

Would one get more gain than the other if both were run with 2400hz 32gb corsair RAM?

depends if you want to get the highest fps possible or not and depends on resolution

[rjfaber91]

7 minutes ago, Xreldo said:

Is it worth it for someone who mainly games (Multitasks). CAD sometimes to get Ryzen 1800x instead of 7700k which is best for gaming.

If games supported more cores would Ryzen be better?

Would one get more gain than the other if both were run with 2400hz 32gb corsair RAM?

Both a 7700K and an 1800X are great gaming chips, so unless you feel you need to get the absolute best framerate you can out of your graphics card (bearind in mind that pushing more frames than your display can show is pointless) for whatever reason, I wouldn't discount the 1800X because the 7700K performs better in almost all poorly multithreaded games.

 

The price difference however is far from negligible, so you have to ask yourself whether paying roughly 150% of the price of a 7700K for an 1800X is worth it to you. Do you do enough CAD work for it to be worth it? How hard on your budget would it be to pay €560 for a CPU? These are questions only you can answer...

[SpaceGhostC2C]

If you mostly game, I wouldn't consider anything more expensive than a 7700K, and I wouldn't even buy it. So, the only Ryzen alternative in your radar should be the 1700 (far from clear you can't just overclock it till it resembles its bigger brothers).

But that's only because the price of the 1700 is in the 7700K range. Otherwise, thinking about Ryzen for gaming is no different than considering the X99 i7s for gaming. If you are not considering, say, a 6800K for gaming, you should question why a 1800x could be worth it.

 

Personally, for mostly gaming I would stay at the ~$200 range CPUs, which means i5s or waiting for R5's releases. But if you want to go overboard in FPS or really want that CAD on the side to work better, or are willing to give up some performance per dollar in order to get higher performance no matter the cost, then it's the 7700K (or, as I said above, the 1700 among R7s, if any).