Ram over CPU

[Marcus Rose]

I'm building my first pc for gaming and editing and I'm having an issue with deciding if I should get a 16gb ddr4 with an i5 7600k or 16gb ddr4 with an AMD FX8350 or 8gb ddr4 with an i7 7700k

[LHJKO]

if you gonna be editing go with a 1700/1600

 

i5 are useless  now when you can get ryzen 

[WereCat]

Don't even look at the FX8350, that CPU is a really really really old turd.

Besides, that CPU does not even work with DDR4 RAM...

 

i5 7600k also makes no sense because of AMD Ryzen 5 and 7 so the only options you have are either:

 

Ryzen 5 1600

Ryzen 7 1700

Intel i7 7700k

 

If you plan on gaming on 120Hz+ monitor go with i7 7700k, otherwise go with the Ryzen CPU. The R5 1600 is as good in games as the R7 1700 except that the R7 1700 has 2 more cores and 4 more threads so it is better in multi threaded workloads which I don't know if you will need.

For games, just pick the R5 1600 as it is significantly cheaper than the R7 1700.

[Narnash]

No AMD FX CPU please, they are crap. (and take DDR3 RAM instead of DDR4, but really dont pick the outdated FX series)

Look at the Ryzen 5 or Ryzen 7 CPUs instead.

 

A rough suggestion on your displayed information ....

For the most likely best performance per $ configuration I would suggest a Ryzen 5 1600 with an AM4 B350 motherboard of your choice, together with DDR4 RAM either 8GB or 16 GB but keep in mind that faster RAM can make a difference on Ryzen, so pick better less but faster RAM first and add some more if you need more.

 

But please give us some more informations, which programms and games, budget and region, which formfactor if you want a smaller PC and so on!

 

 

 

PS: @WereCat

4 minutes ago, WereCat said:

 

If you plan on gaming on 120Hz+ monitor go with i7 7700k, otherwise go with the Ryzen CPU. The R5 1600 is as good in games as the R7 1700 except that the R7 1700 has 2 more cores and 4 more threads so it is better in multi threaded workloads which I don't know if you will need.

For games, just pick the R5 1600 as it is significantly cheaper than the R7 1700.

 

it's not like a Ryzen CPU can't hit above 120hz ... titles which favor clockspeed and struggle to run more than 120hz Ryzen are rather limited, it highly depends which games he play and if he is fine to sacrifice graphics settings just to push the frames to the limit

 

[Shimejii]

Not going to lie i read this post as Ran over CPU rofl....

 

Back to subject, i would go with a 7700k with 16 GB of ram if your doing mostly gaming with some editing, most people render their videos out over night so core count wont matter. If your actually doing a ton of editing and such for business use or a channel, go with the 1700 with 16 gb of ram, where you need to render and upload asap.

[WereCat]

10 minutes ago, Narnash said:

 

 

 

 

PS: @WereCat

 

it's not like a Ryzen CPU can't hit above 120hz ... titles which favor clockspeed and struggle to run more than 120hz Ryzen are rather limited, it highly depends which games he play and if he is fine to sacrifice graphics settings just to push the frames to the limit

 

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Of course. But 7700k is better for running games at high refresh rate so if he wants to take advantage of many Hz the 7700k is a better option right now. I am not saying that Ryzen cannot do it, just that he will have a better experience doing it with i7 as it has greater clock speed and IPC which is essential for pushing and maintaining high FPS to take advantage of 120Hz+ monitors.