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Intel i5 8400 or Ryzen 5 1600?

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So I was planning on getting the ryzen 5 1600 until coffee lake came out. I wouldn't be doing much video making or live streaming if any and was not going to do too much overclocking. Mostly, I'm going to be using my computer for gaming and school work and maybe a bit of photoshop So, I was wondering, should I go with ryzen (Intel Build ) or Intel (Ryzen Build). The ryzen build also has quake champions and assassins creed origins. I was thinking of getting assassins creed if it got to maybe $30 USD and I don't really care for quake. Thanks!

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Go intel if ur mostly gaming, ignore the amd fanboys amd is simply not as good as intel in gaming

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i5 will be better.

 

Also, here come the Ryzen guys with "Photoshop loves more cores!!1!!".

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4 minutes ago, Ricardo Perez said:

Go intel if ur mostly gaming, ignore the amd fanboys amd is simply not as good as intel in gaming

Do you think it's worth the almost $100 increase and doesn't have 2 games?

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1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

i5 will be better.

 

Also, here come the Ryzen guys with "Photoshop loves more cores!!1!!".

Well Photoshop loves IPC. So there's that

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Just get the i5. It's fast and games like a beast. It's pretty much 1/1 in performance with my i7 4790k at 4.5ghz. 

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Bit of an AMD fan I suppose. I don't bias my replies to anything however, I just prefer AMD and their products. Buy whatever the H*CK you want. 

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The i5 8400 build is better but I don't think there's much to justify the $100 gap ($60 without the Hyper 212 EVO).

 

Unpopular opinion, but I rather get the R5 1600 build and chuck in a SSD.

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Just now, HKZeroFive said:

The i5 8400 build is better but I don't think there's much to justify the $100 gap ($60 without the Hyper 212 EVO).

 

Unpopular opinion, but I rather get the R5 1600 build and chuck in a SSD.

Yeah, I would either get faster ram, I heard Ryzen is good for that, or get a 240 gb ssd for games and os.

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Just now, liam807 said:

Yeah, I would either get faster ram, I heard Ryzen is good for that, or get a 240 gb ssd for games and os.

Faster memory shouldn't cost that much more. If you can afford it, get a 240-250GB SSD, but a 120GB one would be fine as well.

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Zen + am ssd vs cannon without, I'll take the ssd any day of the week.

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Ive been pondering this very question for the last two days.

The real problem im having is justifying the extra cost for a z series mobo.

those really seem to be all thats available for the coffeelake cpu's right now.

I can get a decent b350 for about 2/3 of what the cheapest z370 costs.

 

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Get the i5

 

And get an SSD.

 

No compromise.

 

HDD is SLOW. the biggest difference between these 2 build is the SSD.

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I5 8400 

 

Wait for lower end motherboards as only Z370 are out

 

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