Intel Or AMD Help me decide

[trucker1020]

Trying to figure out a new build don't know if i should go intel or amd.

If you are wondering why a new build. Starting to have issues with mobo

So here's my system the way it sits at the moment.

 

Ghetto water cooling

cpu    i7 4930k oc'd to 4.5

ram    32gigs of G skill 2400

mobo ASUS Rampage IV black edition

vid     EVGA gtx 1080 Hydro copper

ssd     250 gig Samsung EVO 840 (c:/)

           500 gig Samsung  EVO 840 (gaming drive)

HD     1 TB WD Green (storage)

          2 TB Seagate (storage and backup)

psu   Thermaltake Toughpower Grand Gold

case  Cooler master HAF X

cooling custom water loop

 

 

[Max_Settings]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET NEW TUBING TO REPLACE THAT YELLOWED SHIT. Either than that I wouldn't upgrade unless you do some heavy rendering work, because that is still a very powerful system, Try to find a used X79 board

[The Sloth]

2 minutes ago, Max_Settings said:

used X79 board

sadly they are very expensive, it would be better for OP to just sell everything and buy new parts. 

 

ryzen 1700 looks good, what kind of work do you do? 

[PCGuy_5960]

X299 or Ryzen 7/Threadripper. It depends on your budget

[Septimus]

I agree with @nerdslayer1, if you can sell all of that for close to what you bought it for, then you should get working on a new build. I would recomend going for the Ryzen lineup rather than Intel's Core lineup. The trend these days is going towards more cores rather than fewer, faster cores. A Ryzen build will give you better performance in most things now, and surely more things down the road. 

[avimakkar]

for what purpose do you use your pc ? gaming or editing ?

for gaming go with intel 7600k or 7700k

for editing stick with ryzen 1700x

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, avimakkar said:

intel 7600k

nope, i5s are not worth it anymore, ryzen 1600 would be better, but for pure gaming 7700k is the best. 

[PCGuy_5960]

2 minutes ago, avimakkar said:

intel 7600k

7600K? lol, that's a straight up downgrade from the 4930K

[avimakkar]

3 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

nope, i5s are not worth it anymore, ryzen 1600 would be better, but for pure gaming 7700k is the best. 

yeah but if you cant afford a 7700k  7600k makes a better alternative for hi refresh 1080p Gaming

while in caseof 1440p or 4k gaming ryzen will be better alternative

[The Sloth]

Just now, avimakkar said:

yeah but if you cant afford a 7700k  7600k makes a better alternative for hir refresh 1080p Gaming

while in caseof 1440p or 4k gaming ryzen will be better alternative

no it doesn't, i5s are dead now 1600 can do a better job for a cheaper price at 1080p, 1440p and 4k, 4c/4t can only go so far.

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, avimakkar said:

 7600k makes a better alternative for hir refresh 1080p Gaming

Nope, the i7 7700 with a B250 board is a better option than a 7600K with a Z270 board for 1080p high refresh rate and the i5 also has crap 1% and 0.1% lows, so gameplay isn't very smooth (compared to an i7/Ryzen)

[trucker1020]

Basically gaming  running multiple accounts on eve and web surfing 

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, trucker1020 said:

Basically gaming  running multiple accounts on eve and web surfing 

Yeah, I would recommend an i7 7800X or 7820X if you can afford it. If you want a cheaper CPU that offers similar performance, get a Ryzen 7 1700(X)

[JoostinOnline]

15 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

nope, i5s are not worth it anymore, ryzen 1600 would be better, but for pure gaming 7700k is the best. 

But will it stay that way? I think the tide is turning towards more threads rather than higher frequency. A few years ago getting an i7 for gaming was kind of silly because games didn't use really utilize more than four threads. An i7 is much better now. 

 

Maybe I'm just excited about AMD having a CPU worthwhile for the first time in forever, but it seems to me like Ryzen is a better bet for the future. Obviously there is no way to know for sure, but it's not being used to its full potential right now. 

[manikyath]

17 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

, but for pure gaming 7700k is the best.

but for pure gaming.. we're so far past the point where the single core performance matters anymore.

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, manikyath said:

but for pure gaming.. we're so far past the point where the single core performance matters anymore.

Yeah, games can use up to 8 threads, but single core performance is still very important, this is why an X99 i7 is 5 or so % slower than a 7700K in games.

[manikyath]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

Yeah, games can use up to 8 threads, but single core performance is still very important, this is why an X99 i7 is 5 or so % slower than a 7700K in games.

but that is at a point where that 5% is above the kind of framerate you'd care about anyways.

[NumLock21]

Can't decide?

Flip a coin!

Head=AMD

Tails=Intel

[Ordinarily_Greater]

16 hours ago, avimakkar said:

yeah but if you cant afford a 7700k  7600k makes a better alternative for hi refresh 1080p Gaming

while in caseof 1440p or 4k gaming ryzen will be better alternative

Just saying that yes intel i7-7700k is better at gaming especially high refresh rates but remember not all people wants to build that kind of thing (well, except for experiencd ones or rich ones?)

 

so at the moment yes Ryzen is just perfect for almost anything

[avimakkar]

On 7/11/2017 at 6:02 PM, Ordinarily_Greater said:

Just saying that yes intel i7-7700k is better at gaming especially high refresh rates but remember not all people wants to build that kind of thing (well, except for experiencd ones or rich ones?)

 

so at the moment yes Ryzen is just perfect for almost anything

Ryzen is the Great for sure !!!