What CPU to take

[xven]

I am building a PC on a x299 platform and i would need help to choose what CPU to get. I mainly game and stream while having a few other thing's open on my other monitor and in the back. The budget is not mainly a issue but if i can manage to save money and be happy with something under a 7980xe i would be happy. 

 

The PC with be fully water cooled and it will be my first very high end rig with a custom loop.

 

So help would be appreciated 

[Vegetable]

Sounds like you could use the 7820x or 7900x if you wanted to be extra. 

[CapitalistVN]

With streaming and gaming, an i7 7820x should be adequate for anything you throw at it.

[xven]

Just now, Vegetable said:

Sounds like you could use the 7820x or 7900x if you wanted to be extra. 

So anything over a 7900k is useless? 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

To be honest, an i7 8700k has 2 fewer cores than i7 7820x but has better single core performance. They are almost equal in multithreaded tasks but the i7 8700k beats the i7 7820x in gaming. If I were to go into the x299 platform, I would go for an i9 7900x. Not to mention the i7 8700k is a significantly cheaper platform

[xven]

Just now, WhyAlwaysMe said:

To be honest, an i7 8700k has 2 fewer cores than i7 7820x but has better single core performance. They are almost equal in multithreaded tasks but the i7 8700k beats the i7 7820x in gaming. If I were to go into the x299 platform, I would go for an i9 7900x. Not to mention the i7 8700k is a significantly cheaper platform

A friend who owns me money gave me a Asus rog rampage board that's why i am going x299 or i would of just use a 8700k. He offered two 1080ti or a Volta, i haven't researched if a Volta gpu was worth it. Since i am getting a motherboard and gpu as exchange for payment i am just asking the community on what will serve me better in the next 3-4years.

 

I am considering delided kits aswell

[TahoeDust]

My overclocked 7820X can game, stream, and have backgrounf stuff (Discorf, chrome, etc.) running in the background not problem.

 

It is a monster for the money,

[CapitalistVN]

24 minutes ago, xven said:

A friend who owns me money gave me a Asus rog rampage board that's why i am going x299 or i would of just use a 8700k. He offered two 1080ti or a Volta, i haven't researched if a Volta gpu was worth it. Since i am getting a motherboard and gpu as exchange for payment i am just asking the community on what will serve me better in the next 3-4years.

 

I am considering delided kits aswell

Nope, a Volta GPU (you mean Titan V??????) is not worth it at all considering its price. A 1080Ti is still extremely powerful. As for the CPU, the i7 7820x has the best single core performance in the whole x299 lineup, so it's very powerful in gaming, and productivity as well with 6 cores.