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Now that the hype is gone what CPU is best for $600 or less?

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3D rendering, gaming at 4k in ultra, video editing, Photoshop, all that fun stuff.

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1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

R7 1800X.

The 1700 is just as good, unless something has changed recently regarding overclockability. 

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1 minute ago, Noah Vega said:

3D rendering, gaming at 4k in ultra, video editing, Photoshop, all that fun stuff.

Any Ryzen R7 depending on how much you want to spend money. Check their reviews,i think best deal would be 1700x. 

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now I like to game so I'm wondering if its will really impact the frame rates much?

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3D rendering, gaming at 4k in ultra, video editing, Photoshop, all that fun stuff.

3D rendering in any real scenario is done by the GPU. Renders on a CPU are purely useful for benchmarks, so a non-issue. For 4K ultra gaming, the i7 7700K has the performance crown right now, but if games start using 8 threads or more (Watch Dogs 2 does, I think), the R7 1700X IMO would be a good buy. 1700 doesn't seem to overclock as high (-100 MHz, usually, but still, the best) from what I've heard, and the 1800X overclocks pretty much the same, just costs $100 more for higher stock clocks. Video editing and Photoshop, hands down the 1700X too.

 

1 minute ago, Noah Vega said:

now I like to game so I'm wondering if its will really impact the frame rates much?

At 4K? Nah. A Ryzen 7 1700 or pretty much anything current that sells for that much or higher will perform the same, because the bottleneck is on the GPU at this point.

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13 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

R7 1800X.

The 1700X is just as good.

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1 minute ago, arnavvr said:

The 1700X is just as good.

 

13 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

The 1700 is just as good, unless something has changed recently regarding overclockability. 

He was asking for the absolute best for the price, and that's why I say 1800X. Also, keep in mind that it's a binned chip.

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1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

 

He was asking for the absolute best for the price, and that's why I say 1800X. Also, keep in mind that it's a binned chip.

Absolute best for the price would still be the 1700 if it overclocks identically to an 1800x, which from everything I've seen is the case. I haven't seen any evidence that an 1800x overclocks higher more consistently than a 1700. 

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5 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

 

He was asking for the absolute best for the price, and that's why I say 1800X. Also, keep in mind that it's a binned chip.

 

In most reviews they overclock the same, with the 1700 being 100Mhz down.

@TheRandomness The 1700X and 1800X are like the old Intel Extreme Editions, they were not any faster (e.x 3930K and 3960X)

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I would say the 1700 or the 1700X by leaps and bounds.  They are really the best overall CPUs to buy period atm (except for gaming primarily then the 7700K is best).  Even Intel's 6900K and up look silly when you consider price.

 

According to Kyle from [H], the 1700X and 1800X are only binned for voltage...not speed.  So keep that in mind as well.

 

The guys at Crit TV got their 1700X to 4ghz with 1.33v

 

 

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21 minutes ago, Noah Vega said:

now I like to game so I'm wondering if its will really impact the frame rates much?

you will be playing over 80fps. wont be able to notice 80 from 100. and it also depends on your GPU. if you have the GTX 1070 like me, you wont notice frame drops really.

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19 minutes ago, ZeusXI said:

you will be playing over 80fps. wont be able to notice 80 from 100. and it also depends on your GPU. if you have the GTX 1070 like me, you wont notice frame drops really.

I'm getting a 1080 Ti

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I'm getting a 1080 Ti

wont really matter then. if you play 10fps under the 7700k (not fanning here just saying what people have been fanning about in benchmarks) you wont see the fps drop unless you are running a 144hz monitor

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8 minutes ago, ZeusXI said:

wont really matter then. if you play 10fps under the 7700k (not fanning here just saying what people have been fanning about in benchmarks) you wont see the fps drop unless you are running a 144hz monitor

Ok

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