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New build advice

Rembrandt

So I am planning a new build and I need some advice here in terms of choice.

I mainly plan to use it for gaming (mostly modded Arma III, but also other games like Gta V, Cities Skylines, Transport Fever etc). I also plan to do some coding.

I am also planning to stream from the same pc.

 

I put together 3 very similar configurations:
 

Intel Core™ i7-7700K, 4.20Ghz, Kaby Lake, 8MB, Socket 1151, BOX (293.79 €)
ASUS PRIME Z270-K, Z270, LGA1151, ATX, 4x4DDR4 (123.90 €)
or
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X, 3600 MHz, 16MB, Socket AM4 (252.00 €)
Asus PRIME B350-PLUS, Socket AM4 (98.70 €)
or
Intel® Core™ i5-8600K Coffee Lake, 3.60GHz, 9MB, Socket 1151 - 300 Series, BOX  (251.79 €)
Gigabyte Z370 HD3, Socket LGA1151, Intel® Coffee Lake 8th Generation CPU, DDR4 (130.62 €)

CPU Corsair Hydro Series H110i, Liquid cooling, 280mm
ADATA XPG Gammix D10 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4, 2800MHz, CL16
ASUS GeForce® GTX 1060 STRIX OC, 6GB GDDR5, 192-bit
Corsair VS Series CP-9020098-EU, 650 W, PFC Active, ATX 2.31, 12 cm fan, black
nJoy Zion, no PSU, Middle Tower, ATX Case
Arctic Silver 5 

 

P.S. I already have storage, so i won't include it. The important part here is the cpu + motherboard.

The total price for all is about 1250 EUR.

Any advice on what would you pick and why ?

 

Thanks.

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The Coffee Lake build all the way

 

The 8600K is genuinely faster than the 7700K, and you also have a future upgrade path if you want.  The 7700K is topping out that platform, and the Ryzen is the budget option.

 

 

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25 minutes ago, Rembrandt said:

 

The i7 8700 non K is a better buy than the 8600K, hyperthreading is likely more useful than a 700mhz advantage OCing the i5 to 5ghz. 

If an RX 580 is the same price go for it instead for free-sync savings.

Ryzen is also pretty alright, but you'd want the R5 1600 if it's at all cheaper, you want either the ASrock Pro4 (assuming it's much cheaper) or ASUS X370 PRIME PRO

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

Spoiler

 

What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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