Second System

[Queen Chrysalis]

I'm looking to build a second system for my other house, it will be primarily for gaming.  I will be taking the GPU in my current workstation (https://pcpartpicker.com/user/spitty84/saved/#view=MGMf8d) and swapping it with the one in this parts list:

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/spitty84/saved/#view=s6Vd6h

 

I want to know for gaming, if it is worth it to go with the 8600k and a z370 as opposed to a b350 and a 2600.  This will also be used to occasionally edit video, but I'm not too worried about that.

[Rainbow Dash]

5 minutes ago, Queen Chrysalis said:

I'm looking to build a second system for my other house, it will be primarily for gaming.  I will be taking the GPU in my current workstation (https://pcpartpicker.com/user/spitty84/saved/#view=MGMf8d) and swapping it with the one in this parts list:

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/spitty84/saved/#view=s6Vd6h

 

I want to know for gaming, if it is worth it to go with the 8600k and a z370 as opposed to a b350 and a 2600.  This will also be used to occasionally edit video, but I'm not too worried about that.

Well you would be better off with the 8600k since you are primary gaming.

[Queen Chrysalis]

3 minutes ago, Rainbow Dash said:

Well you would be better off with the 8600k since you are primary gaming.

Right, just wondering if its worth the cost of a slightly more expensive processor and a z370 board. 

[Rainbow Dash]

19 minutes ago, Queen Chrysalis said:

Right, just wondering if its worth the cost of a slightly more expensive processor and a z370 board. 

Hmmm since you put it that way, the Ryzen 5 1600 would mean you could still upgrade to the Ryzen 3000 series in the future. But with the Intel 9th gen around the corner still supporting z370 boards, that means you could still upgrade in the future on both sockets. It's quite a pickle, but how often does anyone upgrade a pc, like average of 4-5 years, so by that time you might have to get a new board anyways. If you are just planning to keep your cpu and motherboard for 4-5 years or longer, I would just get the 8600k, but if you are planning on getting something for like 10 years, the Ryzen would make a bit more sense since by that time games will be more optimised for multi-threading. For example, the FX 8350 came out in 2012, and there hasn't been a new AMD CPU for 5 years, the FX with it's pretty poor single thread performance against Intel's i5 and i7 4th gen CPUs, lasted it for like a year or so since not really anything used all 8 threads. So what I'm saying is get something with a more powerful single threading if you are planning to keep it for 5 years or longer since you won't be using all the threads for gaming. While the i7 4770k, i7 4790k and i7 2600k, are still really capable gaming CPUs in 2018 since they have a strong single thread performance.