8700K

[Princess Luna]

7 minutes ago, S James said:

(purpose being only gaming and on ultra-high settings)

For your budget? I'd make something close to what I have, cheaper b360 board, 2666mhz memory the locked i7 8700 with a silent but cheap aftermarket cooler and a GTX 1070 Ti because it's basically a 1080 at gaming once overclocked but usually cheaper specially on these "third world" markets.... no offense meant

 

Any decent PSU, a cheap 240~gb SSD for boot and core applications and a nice 2TB HDD so you can keep installing games without worrying which one to delete to make room

 

I'd make a PCPP list but what's the point if where you from don't support it, I really hope you end up managing a nice gaming rig, cheers!

[Biggerboot]

10 minutes ago, S James said:

If you guys had to pick one CPU  and a GPU for 1080p gaming keeping in mind the fact you might not be able to upgrade it  for atleast 5 years what would they be? (purpose being only gaming and on ultra-high settings)

i5 8600k / GTX 1070 used

If the hypothetical scenario was- I'm gonna build a gaming rig to last 5 years, I'd opt for overkilling on GPU and getting the highest end fps I can today at reasonable price.

That may be totally unpopular but if it's just a gaming focused PC I think that's best.

[DarkSmith2]

13 minutes ago, S James said:

If you guys had to pick one CPU  and a GPU for 1080p gaming keeping in mind the fact you might not be able to upgrade it  for atleast 5 years what would they be? (purpose being only gaming and on ultra-high settings)

i would do everything like ive done too. We all want our rigs to last the next 5+years

[S James]

15 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

 

Why not 2700 over 1700? I mean, it's new gen launched this year, it's for sure to have better performance.

I have nothing against AMD or Intel. But do you think this is worth it? I mean, for the same cost as 1700 or 2700 I could get an 8600K with better performance in gaming, why you didn't recommend that? Is it not good in the long run?
If I buy an 8 core now, would that help in the future?

I also wanted to ask that, what is the main difference between 2700X and 2700 non-X. They have different coolers but I will add an aftermarket anyway. 2700X seems  to have better performance out of the box. But here is the main question I'd like to ask you;
Is it possible for a 2700 to out overclock the 2700X's maximum overclock? (with an aftermarket cooler ofcourse)

For eg, an overclocked 2700X gives cinebench scores in 1913. Can 2700 (overclocked) give more than that?

[S James]

3 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

 

The locked 8700, yes, now I had another doubt in this. If you check out the 8600K, it performs nearly the same as 8700K at 5 GHz all the while costing less than the 8700 (non K). So, why would one go for a locked 8700 when they can get more FPS at less price?

 

11 minutes ago, Biggerboot said:

 

How difficult is it to overclock an 8600K? And yea I think 1080Ti for 5 years is worth it even though it might seem like an overkill right now. Why you didn't recommend a 8700 or a Ryzen cpu though?

[Streetguru]

6 minutes ago, S James said:

 

Ryzen just gives you good gaming performance at a decently lower price generally speaking. Unless you get into streaming/recording having 8 cores isn't going to be too big of a deal.

would never recommend the 8600K though, I'd always stick to getting SMT/Hyperthreading over a pure 6 core as it may become useful in the future. Plus an 8700K non K with a B360 board usually costs the same as the full 8600K package.

The 2700X is the better buy usually, it brings the chip to it's limit of like 4.2-4.3 ghz out of the box with no extra effort needed.

If you care a lot about visuals I'd suggest a 4k monitor over a 144hz one though. 144hz is more useful for like esports titles.

[Princess Luna]

8 minutes ago, S James said:

The locked 8700, yes, now I had another doubt in this. If you check out the 8600K, it performs nearly the same as 8700K at 5 GHz all the while costing less than the 8700 (non K). So, why would one go for a locked 8700 when they can get more FPS at less price?

Well here are the differences you have to weight in this, a b360 motherboard is a lot cheaper than a z370, you do need a Good z370 to achieve 5ghz on the i5, not just about any will suffice for the full stable overclock.

 

That being the case you can check the turbo boost table below, on the locked motherboard the i5 8600K can do 4.1ghz all cores, that is only 300mhz apart from the much cheaper i5 8400 which is enough for a GTX 1070 by every mean.

 

If you want to step up staying cheap, no fancy expensive aftermarket cooler, no expensive 3000mhz+ memory, expensive z370 motherboard and so on... the i7 8700 is a clear choice doing 4.3ghz all cores with hyper-threading it's more than enough beast for 5 years.

 

About my experience I did in the past opt for the i7 6700 on a h110, it was super cheap even used stock cooler and in the end because games started to choke with only 4 threads making the more expensive overclocked i5 6600K perform equal or worse to my cheaper i7....

 

Since I really favour having that extra headroom multi-threading wise, it certainly has its value for multi-tasking as well, browsing while gaming and many other stuff at the same time, I also use my PC for drawing and video editing which serves me perfectly fine.