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Hi everyone,

I came here to ask you for advice. I'm building my PC and can't decide, what processor and motherboard to choose. The PC will be my work machine (programming) and sometimes gaming new games (but not hours and hours every day). I was thinking about i7-8700 or i5-8600K (8700K is overkill and don't need it for my needs). The second one can be overclocked and I think, I will never do that, so maybe 8700 will be the right choice What do you think?. Here comes the question, if buy motherboard with Z370 chipset or H370? I think, Z370 can offer more features, even if I will never overclock CPU. I'll plan to buy 16GB DDR4 and M.2 ssd. In the future, when graphic cards will be cheaper, I'll take one (decided for gtx 1070).

 

Many thanks for your answers.

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If you get the i7-8700 you could go for the H370 boards. If you get the i5-8600K then you should get the Z370 if you want to overclock.

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If you don't want to OC I'd say get an 8700 + H370 board. If you don't want to OC Z370 doesn't have many advantages: The biggest two I can think of are it allows memory above 2666 MHz and SLI.

 

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I know, that intel should release new CPU, but I'm not sure, if it brings more significant differences in performance. I found H370 MB (my candidate is Gigabyte H370 AORUS Gaming 3 WIFI) only with one fully m2 slot. Or would you suggest another one?

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7 minutes ago, JurajP89 said:

Why these MB? And what do you think about AMD? Should I consider it?

H370 offers less expensive but decent quality motherboards.

 

Sure you can look at AMD.  For the most part programming does better with higher performance cores rather than more cores. But I doubt the performance difference would be that noticeable. In the end though, cost is going to be fairly close and Ryzen still has issues with higher capacity memory modules.

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1 minute ago, JurajP89 said:

AMD is cheaper, that's right. I always had Intel, but today, I started to think about AMD too. Intel has problems with Meltdown/Spectre. Really hard to decide, which to buy :)

In my opinion Meltdown and Spectre are really only concerns for enterprise environments.

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