Best cpu today for diverse workload poll

[Cameron K]

Mostly just curious what everyone is thinking is the best choice right now. No wrong answer I just wanted a poll to see where peoples heads were at, not using this to make any decision yet. Feel free to backup your response with what use case made you pick that cpu.

[ZeusXI]

4 minutes ago, Cameron K said:

Hi all

well, what would you be doing? gaming? editing? rendering? etc

[JCBiggs]

I do just about everything with a over clocked 6850k.   They are down to $350 bucks now and I have never said "My CPU feels slow" 

you can probably get a faster chip now though. its been a little over a year. I just am far enough out of the loop that I dont know how worth it it would be. 

[Princess Luna]

18 minutes ago, ZeusXI said:

well, what would you be doing? gaming? editing? rendering? etc

It doesn't matter the i7 8700k is better if we leave it that broad "what's better?"

 

It took a while but we're back to the old rule, AMD and Intel can do the same thing, Intel is better but costs significantly more, AMD is worse but is significantly cheaper.

 

There is pretty much nothing the R7 1700 on a decent B350 board can't do facing the i7 8700k on z370, for much cheaper... provided you're fine with it being over all less snappier and slower.

[Damascus]

A 7800X and mobo costs the same as an 8700k and mobo, include the HEDT please.

 

Someone may have more uses for a 1900X with its insane PCIE lanes as well

[Cameron K]

1 minute ago, Damascus said:

A 7800X and mobo costs the same as an 8700k and mobo, include the HEDT please.

 

Someone may have more uses for a 1900X with its insane PCIE lanes as well

You are right, I wanted to see the choice for high end but non HEDT, could do another poll with that in it.

[Damascus]

Just now, Cameron K said:

You are right, I wanted to see the choice for high end but non HEDT, could do another poll with that in it.

Just edit this one, the 8700K and 1800X is practically HEDT already

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Just edit this one, the 8700K and 1800X is practically HEDT already

No, a 2c/4t i3 7360x is High End Desktop, these 6 cores and 8 cores processors are peasant mainstreams.

[Damascus]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

No, a 2c/4t i3 7360x is High End Desktop, these 6 cores and 8 cores processors are peasant mainstreams.

PEASANT 

MY QUUUUUUUUUAAAAAD CORE I5 7640X THE TRUE HEDT

 

(whyyyy does this trash exist)

[MyName13]

i7 8700k performs like r7 especially when overclocked but with much better single core performance.Intel is, again, the king

 

i3 8100 >> r3

i5 8400 > entire r5 lineup and even i5 8600k for most users

i7 8700k > r7 for all workloads, although if you intend to do heavily multithreaded stuff r7 could give the same performance for a little bit lower price and no tinkering with overclocking.

[i_build_nanosuits]

2 hours ago, Cameron K said:

Mostly just curious what everyone is thinking is the best choice right now. No wrong answer I just wanted a poll to see where peoples heads were at, not using this to make any decision yet. Feel free to backup your response with what use case made you pick that cpu.

i think the best one is not in there...IMHO the i7-8700 (non K) is the CPU to get...or even the i5-8400...both have very good clockspeed, high boost clock, it has all the cores and threads, you can pair it with a Z370 board and some fast memory, lock the boost clock to all cores and be done for a reasonable amount of money.