Need help as new builder

[jontyfc]

Hey

I'm going to be building a new pc in a week or so for my brother's birthday, and I was wondering what would be better, AMD or Intel.

He loves fortnite, and is getting a 144hz monitor, so would need to be able to play at high standards.

In terms of performance for £ value, is AMD simply better?

I made this for an AMD build as it's about the right budget, but could the performance be beaten with an Intel build?https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/jontyfc/saved/gyxGGX

 

 

Any help greatly appreciated

[Miller_6780]

AMD Processor if you want a gaming pc

GTX 1080 Ti

32Gb of DDR4 Ram

 

 

[VinZie]

2 minutes ago, Miller_6780 said:

AMD Processor if you want a gaming pc

GTX 1080 Ti

32Gb of DDR4 Ram

 

 

For most people Intel is currently better than AMD. The general performance of a 3.6GHz AMD Ryzen 1800X CPU compared to a 7th Generation 4.2GHz Intel Kaby Lake Core i7 7700K CPU is slightly weaker, and yet the AMD processor costs hundreds of dollars more than the Intel equivalent.

[Miller_6780]

also 
Barracuda  2Tb Mechanical drive

[Miller_6780]

@VinZie Since that kids gonna be playing Fortnite it dont need to be too great so i was throwing things out there

[VinZie]

Generally speaking, Intel’s 7th Generation Kaby Lake processors are faster than AMD’s Ryzen processors but there are exceptions. In general usage Intel wins but when an application or game that takes full advantage of all the available cores is used, Ryzen can be much faster.

Our AMD Ryzen test rig arrived with some unusual tweaks (AMD is adamant it shouldn’t have but it did) and when we reset the (rev. 3f) BIOS (and set up the RAM with XMP timings) it scored 3,944 in PC Mark.

Gigabyte provided us with the latest rev. 5b version and the score increased to 4,010. That’s still behind the Kaby Lake 7700K’s 4,448 and also behind Intel’s older 6th generation 4GHz Skylake Core i7 6600K score of 4,040.

When overclocked the Ryzen score only increased to 4,147 but the Intel 6700K pushed on to 4,355 and the 7700K pushed on to 4,477.

 

[Sernefarian]

This is an intel variant that will likely push a few more frames in gaming at roughly the same cost. In either case I suggest switching the power supply away ffrom the G3 as they are somewhat problem prone with some of the protections just not working on at least some of the models according to reports.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8600 3.1GHz 6-Core Processor  (£176.40 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£89.96 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£167.41 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Kingston - A400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£41.49 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£32.39 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: MSI - Radeon RX 580 8GB ARMOR OC Video Card  (£258.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Case: NZXT - S340 Elite (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£69.59 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£79.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  (£83.16 @ CCL Computers) 
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link - TL-WDN4800 PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter  (£31.19 @ Aria PC) 
Monitor: ViewSonic - XG2401 23.6" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor  (£182.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Keyboard: Corsair - STRAFE RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard  (£99.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Mouse: Logitech - G502 Proteus Spectrum Wired Optical Mouse  (£54.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1368.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-31 01:28 BST+0100

[powerplayer75]

17 minutes ago, jontyfc said:

Hey

I'm going to be building a new pc in a week or so for my brother's birthday, and I was wondering what would be better, AMD or Intel.

He loves fortnite, and is getting a 144hz monitor, so would need to be able to play at high standards.

In terms of performance for £ value, is AMD simply better?

I made this for an AMD build as it's about the right budget, but could the performance be beaten with an Intel build?https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/jontyfc/saved/gyxGGX

 

 

Any help greatly appreciated

In the end it only really matters the best processor you can get for the best deal you can find. dont exactly worry about brand. Currently coffee lake should be a little better but I wouldnt worry about it so much. as long as it doesnt bottleneck your GPU it should be fine