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Hello people, as you saw on the title i am looking to build my next pc. Lets start by saying that i will Not use the pc for gaming !

All i need is a stable and fast system for Photoshop, corel , 50 tabs on firefox with video, big forums , social media , news etc.

i know that 8400 is a beast but what is making me looking for an amd setup with 2400G or even 2200G to save some money, is the fact that new ryzen onboard graphics are 4 times better that 8400 igpu. so my question is: will it be better to have 2 extra real cores in lower speed with 8400 or having 4 cores with turbo charged igpu as 2400g/2200g ? will the extra horse power on the igpu be a wise choise for my daily use as i described ?

thanks in advance

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6 minutes ago, AskTJ said:

Get the 8400 and buy a GPU for it. 

Why? The 2400G can drive 1080p content very well and is much cheaper compared to an 8400 + GPU combo

Plus you can overclock the 2400G to get more out of it compared to the locked 8400

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8400 with some cheap GPU, like a gtx 750 if you dont mind used. Photo editing software like photoshop does use GPU acceleration and the Vega 8 even can do it but not the Intel iGPU (as you said), however unlike CPU cores some operations just do not benefit from GPU acceleration at all.In that case, CPU power rules and the 8400 is a much ahead of the APUs.

 

Ultimately it's still spend some more for some more speed. Not saying APUs are a bad choice, but the 8400 is also good value.

 

alternative option will be the 6 core Ryzen 5s, those are even faster (thx SMT), but you must use a graphics card of some sort to even get it working.

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hi , thanks for your answers , sorry i wasnt clear from the beginning, I do NOT want an extra graphic card, so all we need to focus is the performance of both igpus at least for the needs i mentioned. Photoshop , Corel, Web Browsing with 40-50 tabs heavy tabs.. the standard is that i will have 16GB RAM and a M.2 ssd so will be totally up to the CPU and the graphic performance of the igpu..

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Then 2400g wins in performance, 2200g wins in value because 2400g prices is just silly.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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The i5 8400 makes a lot more sense since Adobe supports Intel a lot better, Also requires more single thread performance, you get 6 cores instead of 4 cores and since you're not gaming the iGPU is perfectly enough... even if you upgrade to a dedicated GPU in the future this iGPU can now hardware accelerate the CPU on Adobe making it perform even better... like seriously Ryzen 2400G here makes no sense.

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