General Upgrade and overclocking help

[Poulsen]

Heya peeps,

 

I'm planning a semi big rebuild of my current rig and had a couple of questions. I have been reading a lot to figure out whether I should buy the I5-8600K or I7-8700K as I will likely only be gaming. From what I understand very few games benefit from hyperthreading, so would the slighly higher clock speeds of the I7 be enough of a cost benefit in your opinion. Secoundly I'm planning on buying the "Be Quiet! Shadow rock LP cooler" and i was wondering if this would be enough to run the I7 at fx 4.8GHz - 5GHz? I hear the performance is good but I don't have enough overclocking experience to figure out the thermal output of the CPU at those speeds.

 

I thought I might aswell rattle of my future rig, in case anyone has some advice

ASUS Prime Z370-P 

I5-8600K or I7-8700K

Shadow rock LP

Samsung 960 EVO SSD M.2 250GB (mainly as boot drive)

 

transfer from current rig

GTX 1070 Dual OC thingy

32 GB DDR3 kingston RAM (don't quite remember exactly which)

 

Thanks a lot for any answers  

 

 

[Jurrunio]

That cooler for 8700k? 4.5GHz probably for sub 80C, 4.8GHz for nearly thermal throttling point. It's too thin.

 

tbh might as well use an 8700 with B360 motherboard and that cooler. Better for your pocket and the CPU temperature while only losing a tiny bit of performance

 

8th gen use DDR4 only, so you need to buy some. Maybe sell the DDR3?

[brob]

If you plan to stick with an unlock cpu and overclock, I would suggest a motherboard with more robust power delivery. A  higher performance cpu cooler would also be a good idea. 

 

Both the i7-8700K and i5-8600K have locked versions that are a little less expensive and come with stock coolers. 

 

The benefits of an NVMe drive in a general purpose and gaming system is debatable. Consider getting a regular SATA III ssd instead.

[Poulsen]

4 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

8th gen use DDR4 only, so you need to buy some. Maybe sell the DDR3?

I hadn't noticed that the board wasn't compatible with ddr3 ram, this changes quite a bit considering the currently ludicrous ram prices

 

3 hours ago, brob said:

If you plan to stick with an unlock cpu and overclock, I would suggest a motherboard with more robust power delivery. A  higher performance cpu cooler would also be a good idea.

More robust power delivery? I honestly didn't think that would be an issue. From what I have read the overall difference between any of the Z370 boards are quite small, so I went with Asus because they apperantly have good QA. Did you have any board in mind perhaps?

 

And thanks for the answers

 

[brob]

Performance differences are relatively minor. Features and power delivery do differentiate models. The Asus z370-P is the lowest priced z370 motherboard offered by Asus. As such, it has a less costly (read robust) VRM solution. If you are going to overclock, power delivery durability and capability become quite important.