Get the i7 6700k or the Ryzen 7 1700?

[k9commander]

 

First of all let me start to what i will be using my pc for.

 

Mostly gaming,hosting server, and working with virtual machine (1 or 2 maybe 3).

if i buy a used i7 6700k they go for around £230-240 ish where as a new ryzen 7 1700 go for £340 ish and below.

budget i have is £550 and already have a corsair h80i v2 (yes i will order an am4 bracket if i go for 1700).

 

Yes I will be overclocking the CPU I get

 

 

Also if you could suggest a good budget B350 motherboard (looking for white one) would be great.

 

 

[WereCat]

In your case, the Ryzen will make way more sense.

I won't suggest you a motherboard since I don't know AM4 motherboards well atm. I will let that to someone else.

[Droidbot]

Ryzen isn't as good for gaming but the multi-threaded performance is insane for the money

AsRock B250M Pro4 isn't that bad, and it's a good board with 9 phase power delivery and dual m.2

[Bananasplit_00]

get Ryzen but make sure you get one of the motherboards with an external clock generator or you wont be able to change the BCLK

[porina]

I run a 6700k as my main system and have been testing out a 1700 recently. So far I don't see a massive reason to switch to Ryzen as main, but my use cases generally don't involve heavily threaded tasks. The extra cores would probably help running a server and VMs, but you may want more ram also.

 

I've got the Asus B350M-A and X370-Pro, and neither really seem as good value as Intel mobos currently. They just lack something. I'm neutral on them, not good, not bad.

[k9commander]

5 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Ryzen isn't as good for gaming but the multi-threaded performance is insane for the money

AsRock B250M Pro4 isn't that bad, and it's a good board with 9 phase power delivery and dual m.2

sorry i should have probably mention for the ryzen =/. 

 

 

[Guest]

Ryzen can be used for gaming just fine, although it currently isn't the best thing out there. But the hardware is capable... Just need software/firmware updates. Considering you want to run VM's, it's a no-brainer. Ryzen.

[Rohime]

If you are going to go Ryzen just make sure you check your virtualisation software is updated to support that CPU.

I'm not aware of any Hypervisors (other than HyperV) that are ready for Ryzen yet.

 

Will probably take a few months for software updates.

[Caaarrrlll-Sama]

The gaming difference is not really notable with most games running withing like a 5 FPS difference between them if the rest of the setup is kept very similar. You should thus be looking at the other factors, will the servers you will be running benefit from more cores/threads ? (Most gaming servers will and also a nice bonus if you plan on streaming without a dedicated streaming pc) and then VMs will almost always benefit from it because you can assign MORE POWER ;p. The last thing to consider would be expansion cards because AFAIK (and I stand under correction) but 6th gen intel only has 20 pci-e lanes and Ryzen has 24 not that it would make a difference if you are planning on having one beast card with maybe like a pci-e ssd or something in that line. 

 

36 minutes ago, WereCat said:

In your case, the Ryzen will make way more sense.

I won't suggest you a motherboard since I don't know AM4 motherboards well atm. I will let that to someone else.

I am agreeing here as well though and can't really tell you about a motherboard because it is still a new platform and not a lot has been done yet but AsRock, ASUS and Gigabyte are always good brands to look at when starting your search. 

[SaladFingers]

Between the two, I'd say go with the Ryzen. Yeah, you will probably get a little lower fps in games compared to the Intel, but you get a stronger CPU overall; More cores and threads, more lanes (so you can actually *use* your PCI slots without sacrificing your GPU's x16 speed).

 

Edit: I missed an important part too: VMing and hosting, definitely get the Ryzen buddy.

[AlexCo]

2 hours ago, Rohime said:

If you are going to go Ryzen just make sure you check your virtualisation software is updated to support that CPU.

I'm not aware of any Hypervisors (other than HyperV) that are ready for Ryzen yet.

 

Will probably take a few months for software updates.

I have KVM, VMware Workstation and ESXI working in my lab on Ryzen.

 

Seems to work fine.

[k9commander]

I have managed to get myself a ryzen 7 1700 for £250, thanks to Ebay Voucher 15% off got it just the right time