I7 8700k for 330 or 2600x for 220

[remo]

Looking to building my neighbor a pc, which would y'all recommend

[LienusLateTips]

Depends on the use case. 

[Skiiwee29]

if for gaming and only gaming for its primary use, the 8700K is the king. If you want to do more productive stuff and streaming etc.. then the waters are muddied a bit, but the 2600x would probably be better. 

[Canada EH]

4 minutes ago, remo said:

Looking to building my neighbor a pc, which would y'all recommend

obviously the newest cpu because its so cheap, way better speeds, ipc, ram etc etc etc

[Dankk]

3 minutes ago, remo said:

Looking to building my neighbor a pc, which would y'all recommend

you might want to ask them what they intend on doing with the PC. 8700k is my recommendation.

[remo]

Just now, Dankk said:

you might want to ask them what they intend on doing with the PC. 8700k is my recommendation.

2700x vs the 8700k?!?!?!

[Dankk]

2 minutes ago, remo said:

2700x vs the 8700k?!?!?!

8700k like I said

[dizmo]

For Minesweeper? G4560.

6 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

obviously the newest cpu because its so cheap, way better speeds, ipc, ram etc etc etc

Except the newer one here has worse IPC and arguably worse RAM support

[remo]

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, Dankk said:

you might want to ask them what they intend on doing with the PC. 8700k is my recommendation.

2700x vs the 8700k?!?!?!

[remo]

Anyone here overclock the 2600x to 5 ghz

[Cookybiscuit]

Just now, remo said:

Anyone here overclock the 2600x to 5 ghz

No.

[Canada EH]

1 minute ago, remo said:

Anyone here overclock the 2600x to 5 ghz

Anything is possible with enough cooling. But its highly unlikely. If you are basing purchase on that, just buy the 8700K as its uber cheap.

[Kamjam21xx]

I would go the step up to the 8core ryzen cpu for 15$ more than the 8700k.

 

If its a family pc atleast.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

If you can spend the money, go for the 8700k. It absolutely DESTROYS the 2600X in gaming and beats in productivity (same c/t count, higher clocks and IPC)

[gbergeron]

1 hour ago, remo said:

Looking to building my neighbor a pc, which would y'all recommend

8700k

[remo]

Can't decide between a 8600k and a 2600x, knowing I can over clock the 8600k well to 5.0ghz, is very nice but the more threads in the 2600x has me wanting it......SOMEONE HELP!!

 

[GoldenLag]

5 minutes ago, remo said:

Can't decide between a 8600k and a 2600x, knowing I can over clock the 8600k well to 5.0ghz, is very nice but the more threads in the 2600x has me wanting it......SOMEONE HELP!!

 

with X470 mobo the 2600x comes pre-overclocked pretty much. the 2600x only needs a basic towercooler to reach its potential and still be silent. Dont allways expect to reach 5 ghz on the coffeelake, there is some silicon lottery involved. However you are more or less guaranteed 4.9 ghz. You would need som better cooling for it though. 

 

you can drop down to a 2600 and overclock to get the same performance as the 2600x. though you would need a towercooler. you save a buck you can use for doritos. 

 

Edit: Roll a dice to choose as both are good options. personally i would go AMD but i am not exactly unbiased. i just like having a higher threadcount

[Jurrunio]

depends on what you do with it. Games, or other stuff.

[Neftex]

if you consider streaming, take the amd

[epsilon84]

Gaming only - 8600K

Mixed use - could go either way, I would personally go with the 2600X for the extra threads

Productivity / content creation - 2600X, unless you specifically use software that uses AVX or isn't heavily multi-threaded like Photoshop

 

[Princess Luna]

SMT threads are in no way the same as cores, realistically speaking both are 6 cores CPUs and that's it additional threads from SMT and HT do not have the same performance or weight.

 

The i5 8600K at 5ghz will be better than the Ryzen 5 2600X across every thing, regardless what you do, workstation or not... it is simply a better product, it's just pretty expensive in comparison.

 

If you want more threads consider a locked i7 8700 if you can afford to OC the i5 you also can afford this one as you're given the chance to save up in CPU, cooling and motherboard with it while keeping the latest IPC available CPU with full 6 cores / 12 threads doing 4.3ghz ~ 4.4ghz on full core boosting.

[epsilon84]

17 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

SMT threads are in no way the same as cores, realistically speaking both are 6 cores CPUs and that's it additional threads from SMT and HT do not have the same performance or weight.

 

The i5 8600K at 5ghz will be better than the Ryzen 5 2600X across every thing, regardless what you do, workstation or not... it is simply a better product, it's just pretty expensive in comparison.

 

If you want more threads consider a locked i7 8700 if you can afford to OC the i5 you also can afford this one as you're given the chance to save up in CPU, cooling and motherboard with it while keeping the latest IPC available CPU with full 6 cores / 12 threads doing 4.3ghz ~ 4.4ghz on full core boosting.

Of course an SMT/HT thread is not the same as a thread from an actual CPU, but multi-threaded throughput can be improved by up to 30% with SMT, so it's definitely good to have. 

 

Though I agree with you that for roughly the same price, the 8700 is the better option than a 8600K, especially for a mixed workload. It does cost more than a 2600X though.

[SupremeGOAT]

7 hours ago, epsilon84 said:

Of course an SMT/HT thread is not the same as a thread from an actual CPU, but multi-threaded throughput can be improved by up to 30% with SMT, so it's definitely good to have. 

 

Though I agree with you that for roughly the same price, the 8700 is the better option than a 8600K, especially for a mixed workload. It does cost more than a 2600X though.

and you have to buy coolers too...

[App4that]

42 minutes ago, SupremeGOAT said:

and you have to buy coolers too...

Remember when people bought CPU coolers because it was a way to individualize their PCs?

 

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