What motherboard

[ErwinRommel]

I am planning to buy a nzxt kraken cooler and a i3 7350K I don't play a lot of cpu intensive games and the overclocking was quite appealing but now I have to switch from lga1150 to lga1151 any tips ?

[xitywampas]

What form factor?

[rn8686]

You already own an 1150 motherboard? Why switch at all then? Just buy a used 4790k and keep the rest, will perform much better than the i3. 

[ErwinRommel]

2 minutes ago, xitywampas said:

What form factor?

Standard I have a full tower so size isn't a real problem

[Princess Luna]

Wait, you do not buy an i3 7350k that processor makes as little sense as the i5 7640x, you'll have to spend a lot of money on Z chipset and aftermarket cooling for the performance of a locked i5 7400.... ??

[ErwinRommel]

Just now, rn8686 said:

You already own an 1150 motherboard? Why switch at all then? Just buy a used 4790k and keep the rest, will perform much better than the i3. 

What about the overclocking pottential ?

[ErwinRommel]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

Wait, you do not buy an i3 7350k that processor makes as little sense as the i5 7640x, you'll have to spend a lot of money on Z chipset and aftermarket cooling for the performance of a locked i5 7400.... ??

I know this is why I asked you because it has been a while for me because I had to study so I wanted to make sure I didn't made a stupid mistake

[Princess Luna]

Just now, ErwinRommel said:

I know this is why I asked you because it has been a while for me because I had to study so I wanted to make sure I didn't made a stupid mistake

Okay so let's go step by step, what is your country, your budget and your purpose for the PC? I can give you better balanced ideas through pcpartpicker

[ErwinRommel]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Okay so let's go step by step, what is your country, your budget and your purpose for the PC? I can give you better balanced ideas through pcpartpicker

Thank you , I live in the Netherlands so we have 21% tax the budget doesn't really matter but around 200-300 euro and i will use it mainly for gaming.

[Princess Luna]

5 minutes ago, ErwinRommel said:

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300 euros is very tight budget, do you already have any component such as hard drives or power supply? Trying to fit in something here

[apaydinabdul]

6 minutes ago, ErwinRommel said:

Thank you , I live in the Netherlands so we have 21% tax the budget doesn't really matter but around 200-300 euro and i will use it mainly for gaming.

Ga naar tweakers.net > moederborden > kruis aan Z270 en pak de goedkoopste.

Of ga naar amazon.de (BELANGRIJK: .de) en zoek op Z270 motherboard, vaak zijn hier kortingen aan de gang. Kijk wel of je moederbord naar Nederland bezorgd (staat in het groen bij de prijs).

 

Though you made a big mistake by buying the i3-7350K without asking anybody on the forums. Litteraly everybody would've said "don't buy it".

[ErwinRommel]

1 minute ago, apaydinabdul said:

Ga naar tweakers.net > moederborden > kruis aan Z270 en pak de goedkoopste.

Of ga naar amazon.de (BELANGRIJK: .de) en zoek op Z270 motherboard, vaak zijn hier kortingen aan de gang. Kijk wel of je moederbord naar Nederland bezorgd (staat in het groen bij de prijs).

Weet ik maar wat ik bedoel is zou je dat aanraden met de i3 of zal ik me moederbord erin houden voor een i5 gaan aangezien ik geen clu intensieve spellen speel.

[ErwinRommel]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

300 euros is very tight budget, do you already have any component such as hard drives or power supply? Trying to fit in something here

I have all of those but i'm just looking for a cpu upgrade.

[Princess Luna]

Just now, ErwinRommel said:

I have all of those but i'm just looking for a cpu upgrade.

So 300$ for just motherboard + CPU? Memory too?

 

You already have a graphics card? Which one is it?

[ErwinRommel]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

So 300$ for just motherboard + CPU? Memory too?

 

You already have a graphics card? Which one is it?

It is an gtx 960 i haven't experienced any moments of problem but i'm planning to buy a 1070 in the future and memory too thr only thing i jeed is advice for my next cpu.

[RadiatingLight]

get a 4790, keep your RAM and motherboard.

it is undeniably better than the i3

[Princess Luna]

Intel build:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€193.65 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: MSI - B250M PRO-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€68.11 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (€64.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €326.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-21 01:28 CEST+0200

 

AMD build:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1400 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€159.85 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€76.70 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Kingston - Savage 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (€83.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €320.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-21 01:31 CEST+0200

 

For both builds you should not pair any thing higher than this possible future GTX 1070/GTX 980ti since the CPU will bottleneck any thing higher tier.

 

If you can add more funds the only change would be for Intel is get the i7 7700 and for AMD get the R5 1600 to give you more powerful CPU that can be matched with a GTX 1080ti even.

 

Observations: The memory is different because AMD will see a lot of performance boost getting 3000mhz while Intel is much less sensible to memory frequencies meaning 2133mhz are good enough for your user case.

 

Cheers!

[rn8686]

34 minutes ago, ErwinRommel said:

What about the overclocking pottential ?

Overclocking can be fun, but not great value. You would be giving up more performance and money by buying into Kabylake. 

[RadiatingLight]

15 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Intel build:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€193.65 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: MSI - B250M PRO-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€68.11 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (€64.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €326.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-21 01:28 CEST+0200

 

AMD build:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1400 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€159.85 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€76.70 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Kingston - Savage 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (€83.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €320.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-21 01:31 CEST+0200

 

For both builds you should not pair any thing higher than this possible future GTX 1070/GTX 980ti since the CPU will bottleneck any thing higher tier.

 

If you can add more funds the only change would be for Intel is get the i7 7700 and for AMD get the R5 1600 to give you more powerful CPU that can be matched with a GTX 1080ti even.

 

Observations: The memory is different because AMD will see a lot of performance boost getting 3000mhz while Intel is much less sensible to memory frequencies meaning 2133mhz are good enough for your user case.

 

Cheers!

keep in mind that OP already has an LGA 1150 board, so he should just get a 4790