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PaPanes
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There are 2 deals on Newegg currently that I'm considering. The first deal is a i5 7600k and a Asus Maximus Viii hero for $250. The second one I found was a i5 8600k and a Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 7 motherboard for $350. Note that I do have a tight budget but am willing to pay a bit more. Just wondering if it's worth the $100 increase. 

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If you're willing to spend the extra money you might as well. The two extra cores will probably come in handy seeing as games are progressing towards using more than 4 cores. And of course, the extra power will come in handy if you multitask or plan on doing any photo/video work.

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8600k all the way, better chip, worthy to say it's equal to the 7700k, it's a newer (going to be but not quite yet) not dead platform and I'd say the i5 7600k is of equal shittiness to the i3 7350k.

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4 minutes ago, PaPanes said:

There are 2 deals on Newegg currently that I'm considering. The first deal is a i5 7600k and a Asus Maximus Viii hero for $250. The second one I found was a i5 8600k and a Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 7 motherboard for $350. Note that I do have a tight budget but am willing to pay a bit more. Just wondering if it's worth the $100 increase. 

meh i would just do an 8400 and a mobo for middle price or so...

 

but i get T H E D E A L S

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30 minutes ago, PaPanes said:

There are 2 deals on Newegg currently that I'm considering. The first deal is a i5 7600k and a Asus Maximus Viii hero for $250. The second one I found was a i5 8600k and a Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 7 motherboard for $350. Note that I do have a tight budget but am willing to pay a bit more. Just wondering if it's worth the $100 increase. 

Well the 8600k is actually better than an i7 7700k in quite literally everything, and the i5 7600k is dying as it is with 4 cores and no HT. I'd get the 8600k and not worry about it for 5 years

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Bit of an AMD fan I suppose. I don't bias my replies to anything however, I just prefer AMD and their products. Buy whatever the H*CK you want. 

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