Help with CPU choice (x299 vs. Coffee Lake)

[Sheiddy]

So my old PC decided to die a little too soon, can't figure out if it's the motherboard(R5E) or the CPU(i7-5820k) that's not working anymore and decided to no try and repair/replace what's broken and instead upgrade to a newer generation. I will keep everything I had except for the CPU and mottherboard. It had a 1080ti, 1000w Corsairs PSU, 16 GBs of RAM and some SSDs+HDDs.

What I need is an advice on the CPU-MoBo. Should I go with the intel x299 and 7th gen i7-7820x or i9-7900x or should I go with z370 and the i7-8700k.

I usually use the computer for gaming on a 1440p@160Hz monitor. I also stream sometime and do some video editing for YouTube(Sony Vegas/After Effects) and also use it for programming.

Budget: £1000.

I will post below a list of parts that I considered buying and their pricing where I am, maybe it helps.

 

• CPU:
  •  i9-7900x -  £679
  •  i7-8700x  - £327
  •  i7-7820x  -  £420
• Motherboard:
  • Asus TUF X299 MK1 -  £225
  • Asus Strix Z370          -  £153
  • Asus Strix X299-XE    -  £274

Feel free to give any kind of advice and/or other parts.

Thank you.

 

EDIT: words

Edited February 15, 2018 by Sheiddy

[porina]

How did you find the 5820k in your usage? The basic question is, is the 8700k enough, or do you need to throw more money at it? Or, if you got the extra money anyway, why not go higher up regardless? For gaming the 8700k will be more than fine, but I'm not familiar with the other tasks and how they might possibly benefit, if at all. Also, what CP cooling do you have? Do you intend to overclock? Especially for the higher end CPUs, they can get rather toasty.

 

If you don't mind, very roughly where are you? Just wondering on the off chance you're not far and if so there might be more possibilities.

[Sheiddy]

9 minutes ago, porina said:

How did you find the 5820k in your usage? The basic question is, is the 8700k enough, or do you need to throw more money at it? Or, if you got the extra money anyway, why not go higher up regardless? For gaming the 8700k will be more than fine, but I'm not familiar with the other tasks and how they might possibly benefit, if at all. Also, what CP cooling do you have? Do you intend to overclock? Especially for the higher end CPUs, they can get rather toasty.

 

If you don't mind, very roughly where are you? Just wondering on the off chance you're not far and if so there might be more possibilities.

 

I used the 5820k OC'd to 4.5 since I bought it 3 years ago (that's probably why it died too) and it worked like a charm. It was very rarely slow when using tons of demanding apps (like photoshop, after effects, vegas etc.) and streaming. I do intend to overclock just a bit, maybe 10%. Current cooler is NZXT Kraken X62. And for your last question, I am from Romania .

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, Sheiddy said:

 

I used the 5820k OC'd to 4.5 since I bought it 3 years ago (that's probably why it died too) and it worked like a charm. It was very rarely slow when using tons of demanding apps (like photoshop, after effects, vegas etc.) and streaming. I do intend to overclock just a bit, maybe 10%. Current cooler is NZXT Kraken X62. And for your last question, I am from Romania .

Idgo 8700k then. Its cheaper, Best single threaded performance, and more than enough cpu power for editing 4k. You can get a bit faster with editing, but from your use it wouldn't seem to be worth it.