Building all new > cpu choice with Coffee Lake

[DaveMacD]

Hi all. I'm building for my first time with the intention of a computer basically for browsing internet without the dreaded wait time for paged to load, but also a decent htpc.

It's not for gaming but I want a super good system nonetheless for what I do.

My internet package gives me 15 Mbps^† download speed. I'd like a cpu that uses Windows without affecting me in the very least when it wants to shove Windows Defender in my face, and do updates etc. 

It seems that an i3 8100 suits me, but I'm wondering if i spend more and am comfortable overclocking, would the extra clock speed help my pages load faster with an i3 8350K?

Seeing an i5 8400 with six cores at the same price more or less as the K version of an i3 makes me wonder if buying a better cpu will indeed help with Windows running better (or less intrusive).

It's a bit daunting trying to figure out if Windows takes advantage of six cores rather than four, and if clock speed of 4.5 overclocking with an i3 8350K is going to give better results with an i5 8400.

Having said all that, I'm also wondering if just a basic MSI GeForce GT 710 would help my system better than an i5 compared to an i3?

 

[LienusLateTips]

I'd get a Ryzen 5 2400G when it comes out on Monday. It blows the i5 8400 out of the water if you don't have a GPU.

 

The GT 710 performs slightly worse than the UHD 630 AFAIK.

[3 Lions]

1 minute ago, DaveMacD said:

browsing internet without the dreaded wait time for paged to load

This is something wrong with your internet, not the PC. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, JDE said:

I'd get a Ryzen 5 2400G when it comes out on Monday. It blows the i5 8400 out of the water if you don't have a GPU.

 

The GT 710 performs slightly worse than the UHD 630 AFAIK.

the 710 is a good amount worse. the uhd630 is better than the 730.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

This is something wrong with your internet, not the PC. 

could be IE too, or an amazing amount of other crap like barely any RAM or malware

 

OP id get the new Ryzen 3 chip if you are going for new, it will do what you want perfectly, is cheap AF and should do some light gameing if you want that too

[DocDave]

For me, I would always recommend AMD flavors as you tend to get more for the money both in motherboards and cpu's, 

 

Something like MSI A320M GRENADE AM4 would be a great entry level AM4 motherboard with some features, personally, I wouldn't bother with overclocking as you need to do a ton of research, and hit a ton of pigeon holes for something that you wouldn't see the most out of.

 

In regards of the graphics card, having one is better than not up to a point, for example, I have just sold a GTX750ti for £100 at that costing you would get a lot more out of upgrading your motherboard or CPU to the next one.

 

Thats my thinking anyway :-) 

 

 

[aezakmi]

I think you have a misconception about overclock. Increasing the CPU frequency (clock) will not make websites load faster, that depends on your internet connection speed, if you notice slow loading times you should check your network, overclock will make the cores process more instructions per second (work faster) to increase performance, simple benchmarks are a way to measure how much extra performance you gain from an oc.

 

About the CPU, the 8100 and the 8400 aren't for overclock so both come with a stock fan while the 8350k doesn't, if you're on a tight budget I wouldn't recommend getting a K CPU since you'll have to buy a cooler and that would be more expensive than getting the i5, having more cores will help your OS but these will run at 2.8GHz and the Turbo will only increase 1 core speed up to 4GHz (the rest up to 3.8GHz) but only for a limited time since the frequency is tied to the TDP which is only 65W but if you're not going to game or run intensive programs in your computer that shouldn't be a problem at all

 

The graphics card? Stick to the onboard GPU