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If the games they play most favor single core performance then Intel, otherwise AMD. Ryzen generally gives better performance per dollar most of the time and usually it won't make a huge difference unless you really care about the extra couple FPS in some games.

 

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For that budget I'd probably say an 8600k

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Amd for everything 

 

No just grab the new 8700K in my opinion getting anything else is just dumb for gaming grab a 2600X or 8700K. 

 

For gaming within 10% of intel but having more overall power grab a 2700X if you don't plan on overclocking then the advantages of the 8700K start to diminish a bit as well since its such a nice overclocker compared to the 2700X which runs out of the box at the highest speeds. 

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With a budget like that, I would just say to get an i7 8700k since it will overall be a better CPU than the AMD options.

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8 minutes ago, Cyro14 said:

With a budget like that, I would just say to get an i7 8700k since it will overall be a better CPU than the AMD options.

Doesn't really make sense with that budget, and for gaming. You might as well get a basic 1080 Ti system. 

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor  (£145.19 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: MSI - Z370 TOMAHAWK ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£104.99 @ Novatech) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£154.79 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£59.99 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: *Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£47.20 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Mini Video Card  (£668.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox 5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£54.99 @ Box Limited) 
Power Supply: BitFenix - Formula Gold 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£59.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Total: £1296.13
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
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2 minutes ago, seon123 said:

Doesn't really make sense with that budget, and for gaming. You might as well get a basic 1080 Ti system. 

Just a rough thing made without much thought:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor  (£145.19 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: MSI - Z370 TOMAHAWK ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£104.99 @ Novatech) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£154.79 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£59.99 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: *Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£47.20 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Mini Video Card  (£668.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox 5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£54.99 @ Box Limited) 
Power Supply: BitFenix - Formula Gold 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£59.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Total: £1296.13
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-03 19:08 BST+0100

Yeah, I agree, this would be the best, i5-8400 will definitely get the gaming job done, and everything else will be perfect.

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4 minutes ago, seon123 said:

Doesn't really make sense with that budget, and for gaming. You might as well get a basic 1080 Ti system. 

Just a rough thing made without much thought:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor  (£145.19 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: MSI - Z370 TOMAHAWK ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£104.99 @ Novatech) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£154.79 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£59.99 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: *Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£47.20 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Mini Video Card  (£668.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox 5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£54.99 @ Box Limited) 
Power Supply: BitFenix - Formula Gold 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£59.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Total: £1296.13
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-03 19:08 BST+0100

na i wouldn't for the life of me get a 8400 over something like a 2600X its either a 8700X or 2600X nothing else makes since and yeah the 8400 will bottleneck a 1080Ti in games that are CPU bound who wants that?

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2 minutes ago, SMBGUY said:

na i wouldn't for the life of me get a 8400 over something like a 2600X its either a 8700X or 2600X nothing else makes since and yeah the 8400 will bottleneck a 1080Ti in games that are CPU bound who wants that?

For gaming, the 8400 generally performs better than Ryzen.

The 8700 makes more sense than the unlocked version in a lot of cases. The frequency difference isn't big, and you don't need to spend ~£30 more for the K + ~£50 for a decent cooler + ~£50 more for a decent motherboard. And delidding stuff. 

You can make the 8700K be the bottleneck in a game, if you want that. The overall performance matters more than "bottlenecking"

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2 minutes ago, seon123 said:

For gaming, the 8400 generally performs better than Ryzen.

The 8700 makes more sense than the unlocked version in a lot of cases. The frequency difference isn't big, and you don't need to spend ~£30 more for the K + ~£50 for a decent cooler + ~£50 more for a decent motherboard. And delidding stuff. 

You can make the 8700K be the bottleneck in a game, if you want that. The overall performance matters more than "bottlenecking"

If he goes that way he needs to get a aftermarket cooler for it even a 30$ cooler will work but the stock cooler will limit what the CPU can do during turbo

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3 minutes ago, SpiralTTGL said:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Wp8h3b

I feel something like this would be more suitable

I agree with this user, getting a better CPU will be better for higher frame rates and games like overwatch will easily run at 144fps with a 1080 i know i own one

 

 

You could always grab the 8700 as seon123 said but for sure don't use the stock cooler for that haha i read so many users trying to do that and almost always hitting thermal limits 

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1 minute ago, SMBGUY said:

If he goes that way he needs to get a aftermarket cooler for it even a 30$ cooler will work but the stock cooler will limit what the CPU can do during turbo

Something like the Pure Rock Slim or M9i is plenty, £20 coolers. He'll generally run out of GPU performance first, and adding a cooler later is really simple. 

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