Building a new rig

[hyperj123]

Been doing some searching on the forum and I'm seeing that the i5-7600k is basically an i3-8350k. I like to overclock. Simply put I'm literally caught between my cpu choice. I will be rocking a ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6GB as my GPU. What should I go with for my cpu? I only need to do 1080p gaming. I will be buying a 144hz monitor as well and my new rig will have 16GB of ram and a 650 watt psu. How far can I push the 8350k vs the 7600k? I will be using a hyper 212 evo. Thanks for your advice

[SquintyG33Rs]

yeah they are almost identical.. and you don'e need more than 500W PSU for all this (it's still way overkill and you save yourself the money)

[davyre89]

24 minutes ago, hyperj123 said:

Been doing some searching on the forum and I'm seeing that the i5-7600k is basically an i3-8350k. I like to overclock. Simply put I'm literally caught between my cpu choice. I will be rocking a ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6GB as my GPU. What should I go with for my cpu? I only need to do 1080p gaming. I will be buying a 144hz monitor as well and my new rig will have 16GB of ram and a 650 watt psu. How far can I push the 8350k vs the 7600k? I will be using a hyper 212 evo. Thanks for your advice

7600K and 8350K are similar in terms of OC, but I would say go for the 8350K with Z370 chipset for future upgradability to i5 8600K or i7 8700K.

[hyperj123]

3 minutes ago, davyre89 said:

7600K and 8350K are similar in terms of OC, but I would say go for the 8350K with Z370 chipset for future upgradability to i5 8600K or i7 8700K.

How far can I push it? I'm coming from a 2500k that is pushed to 4.8GHZ

[hyperj123]

12 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

yeah they are almost identical.. and you don'e need more than 500W PSU for all this (it's still way overkill and you save yourself the money)

I got the PSU on discount. It was only $40. Half off.

[davyre89]

2 minutes ago, hyperj123 said:

How far can I push it? I'm coming from a 2500k that is pushed to 4.8GHZ

How far you can push depends on your luck a.k.a. silicon lottery, no one can tell. You won the lottery for your 2500K though.

[Trulop]

Just now, hyperj123 said:

How far can I push it? I'm coming from a 2500k that is pushed to 4.8GHZ

it can overclock to roughly the same, maybe a bit more. Ive seen alot of OC's on the coffee lake chips hit the 5.0GHz so if you get a good one you might be able to achieve that, where as if you lose silicon lottery a bit and not get an oustanding chip, you wont be able to hit that high but could still be within the 4.7-5.0GHz range. Both the 8350k and 7600k are pretty much the same, so for future upgradability go with Z370 platform and years down the road pick up a used 8700k to toss in it as an upgrade.