Total confusion

[Anand K N]

i am going to build a new pc in the upcomin 2 months.Should i go with i5 7500 or ryzen 5 1500x.I want this pc for playing AAA title games .Which one would be future proof for atleast a year or 2.and which graphics card should i choose if my total budget for the rig is 600$.My current pc is i3 4130,4gb ram and hd 6570.I want to play almost all current and upcoming games after my upgrade

[Wander Away]

An i5 is probably going to be better if you're just going to be gaming. If you want to do any amount of streaming or multitasking then you can go for the ryzen. 

To be entirely honest, "Future proofing" is  really just a myth. You can't fully prepare for the future, as you never really know what you might want to do with your pc in a couple years. But currently, the single core performance of intel chips are generally better for gaming. 

 

[WereCat]

Locked i5 make no sense now when Ryzen is around, get the Ryzen + B350 motherboard.

AM4 platform is just on the begining of its life cycle and we already know that AMD is going to support multiple generations of CPUs on the AM4.

 

Intel is already making B/H/Z270 obsolete.

[minibois]

I would personally go for the Ryzen CPU, the extra threads already help in quite a few of the newer games and the amount of games it will be useful in will surely only rise.

For a budget like that I would probably go for an RX 560 or GTX 1050, or maybe you can look at the used market. Not sure how the market is at the moment, but in the past you were able to get R9 280 cards for the price of the aforementioned video cards.

 

Otherwise 8GB of memory is Nice (some faster memory is preferred on Ryzen) and getting a good SSD would be great. Combining this with maybe your current HDD (with a format of course) is also an option.

[Anand K N]

1 minute ago, Wander Away said:

An i5 is probably going to be better if you're just going to be gaming. If you want to do any amount of streaming or multitasking then you can go for the ryzen. 

To be entirely honest, "Future proofing" is  really just a myth. You can't fully prepare for the future, as you never really know what you might want to do with your pc in a couple years. But currently, the single core performance of intel chips are generally better for gaming. 

so i should go with i5 7400 than ryxen 5 1400

 

[WereCat]

2 minutes ago, Anand K N said:

so i should go with i5 7400 than ryxen 5 1400

 

No, Ryzen 1400 or 1500X performs better than i5 7400 or 7500. Not to mention that you can go and OC it to get even more performance (also supports way faster RAM).

Ryzen 1400 and 1500X are sitting closer to locked i7 performance.

[Wander Away]

3 minutes ago, Anand K N said:

so i should go with i5 7400 than ryxen 5 1400

 

They're both quality choices imo, i5 with faster single core performance, while ryzen gives you more threads at slightly slower speeds. 

edit: but if you want something that just works, and would work for quite a while, ryzen can fit you well. 

[PETRGangKing]

In 2 months coffee lake will be out. I would go ryzen, or 8400k

[Guest]

I would recommend going with the ryzen CPU, has SMT enabled which means more threads which will benefit in newer games and it is also an unlocked processor which means overclocking is supported. The AM4 platform provides more upgradability, if you want to upgrade the i5 in the future, you would have to spend extra on a Z170/Z270 motherboard which supports this function.

[Anand K N]

Just now, PETRGangKing said:

In 2 months coffee lake will be out. I would go ryzen, or 8400k

i dont think there is i5 8400k its only 8400

[PETRGangKing]

Just now, Anand K N said:

i dont think there is i5 8400k its only 8400

There is a 8400k.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Anand K N said:

so i should go with i5 7400 than ryxen 5 1400

 

Both the R5 1400/1500X CPUs will perform better than the i5 and not to mention, overclocking is supported on these CPUs which means more performance. Ryzen also supports faster ram in which it benefits from.

[TahoeDust]

3 minutes ago, PETRGangKing said:

In 2 months coffee lake will be out. I would go ryzen, or 8400k

2 Days my man.

[sazrocks]

Wait for coffee lake.

 

I seriously need to make a macro for this.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, PETRGangKing said:

In 2 months coffee lake will be out. I would go ryzen, or 8400k

There is no 8400k, there is only the core i5-8400.

Here is a list of all coffelake processors from intel: https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/97787/Coffee-Lake

[PETRGangKing]

1 minute ago, TahoeDust said:

2 Days my man.

Yes, I know. I said 2 months because he said that he was building this in 2 months.

[Anand K N]

1 minute ago, sazrocks said:

Wait for coffee lake.

 

I seriously need to make a macro for this.

coffee lake will release tommorrow in my country

[TahoeDust]

8600k will be the unlocked i5.

 

Here you go OP....

 

 

[TahoeDust]

Just now, PETRGangKing said:

Yes, I know. I said 2 months because he said that he was building this in 2 months.

Sorry...missed that.

[PETRGangKing]

There are bench results in sisoft Sandra for an i5-8400k.

[sazrocks]

2 minutes ago, Anand K N said:

coffee lake will release tommorrow in my country

Exactly... So you should wait for coffee lake.

[Anand K N]

1 minute ago, sazrocks said:

Exactly... So you should wait for coffee lake.

ok

 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, PETRGangKing said:

There are bench results in sisoft Sandra for an i5-8400k.

?? There is no 8400k

There is only the i5-8600k and i5-8400

[PETRGangKing]

ah. google 8400k, nearly every single tech publication misreported it as the 8400k.

[Janner558]

Why don’t you save the money and upgrade your current pc to a 4690k or 4790k and then spend the rest on a gpu.

instead of having to get a new mb, new ram. Clock for clock intel’s IPC gains have been none existent so a long as you can OCs to a decent level 4.8ish you can get similar performance to a Kaby lake

 

p.s

maybe a little bit more ram 8gb is a decent low level, 16gb will sort you out for a long time

Edited October 4, 2017 by Janner558