Need a good CPU and motherboard combo for this

[Railgun]

My friend is planning on building a desktop and everything here looks good to me but I don't really know what the current situation is with processors so I need some help picking out a good one that will perform well and won't be too expensive.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WfH4P3

 

Thanks in advance

[Origami Cactus]

I would throw a r5 2600x and a msi mortar b450m into it.

Or if intel then a i5 8400 and a b360 motherboard.

What is the budget?

[homeap5]

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6/index.asp

https://ark.intel.com/products/126684/Intel-Core-i7-8700K-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-4_70-GHz

 

I don't know how "good" means because I don't know what your friend will need.

Maybe that motherboard is too much. You can find cheaper and still good.

Personally I have MSI Z370 PC PRO - but only because it has one old PCI slot (rare if I also want Z370 chipset).

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, homeap5 said:

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6/index.asp

https://ark.intel.com/products/126684/Intel-Core-i7-8700K-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-4_70-GHz

 

I don't know how "good" means because I don't know what your friend will need.

Maybe that motherboard is too much. You can find cheaper and still good.

Personally I have MSI Z370 PC PRO - but only because it has one old PCI slot (rare if I also want Z370 chipset).

Whoa, z370 with pci? What do you use it for?

[Railgun]

2 minutes ago, homeap5 said:

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty Z370 Gaming K6/index.asp

https://ark.intel.com/products/126684/Intel-Core-i7-8700K-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-4_70-GHz

 

I don't know how "good" means because I don't know what your friend will need.

Maybe that motherboard is too much. You can find cheaper and still good.

Personally I have MSI Z370 PC PRO - but only because it has one old PCI slot (rare if I also want Z370 chipset).

gaming at 1440p at least 60fps. He has a 1080 in there so we just need something that won't bottleneck. I know a 1080 is a bit overkill for 1440p but the 1070 is barely any cheaper so there really isn't any reason not to get it.

[homeap5]

5 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Whoa, z370 with pci? What do you use it for?

For my good, nice soundcard. Otherwise I would buy Asrock Fatal1ty.

I have choice - weak Asrock, Gigabyte (what I not like) and MSI. So I choose MSI.

Otherwise I must sell soundcard (if I can), buy another one (more money) so cost will be much greater.

And my MSI works good with i7 8700k @4.8.

MSI Z370 PC PRO - google it.

[homeap5]

5 minutes ago, Railgun said:

gaming at 1440p at least 60fps. He has a 1080 in there so we just need something that won't bottleneck. I know a 1080 is a bit overkill for 1440p but the 1070 is barely any cheaper so there really isn't any reason not to get it.

So if he want really good motherboard and i7 processor, that Asrock is good. Asus has good motherboards too, but the same quality = 3 x bigger price.

MSI are cheaper and still good, even if they have lack of some features in BIOS (not important for most of users, annoying for me).

[Railgun]

5 minutes ago, homeap5 said:

So if he want really good motherboard and i7 processor, that Asrock is good. Asus has good motherboards too, but the same quality = 3 x bigger price.

MSI are cheaper and still good, even if they have lack of some features in BIOS (not important for most of users, annoying for me).

Mobo quality isn't really important. He's most likely not gonna touch most of that stuff anyway. I was thinking of sticking with the Ryzen 5 2600x since it's cheap and works well enough. Only issue I'm running into now is that PCPP is telling me that some mobos might need a bios update with specific processors and that's not something he's gonna want to deal with. Any way to know for sure which motherboards will work with R5 right out of the box?

[SHROUD]

1 hour ago, Railgun said:

My friend is planning on building a desktop and everything here looks good to me but I don't really know what the current situation is with processors so I need some help picking out a good one that will perform well and won't be too expensive.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WfH4P3

 

Thanks in advance

Build something like this....

8600k performs almost similar to 8700k when it comes to gaming...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor  ($249.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! - Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler  ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Extreme4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($158.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($149.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($99.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.49 @ SuperBiiz) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB D5X Video Card  ($429.89 @ OutletPC) 
Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400S TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($89.72 @ OutletPC) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($94.89 @ OutletPC) 
Monitor: Acer - G257HU smidpx 25.0" 2560x1440 60Hz Monitor  ($229.99 @ Walmart) 
Keyboard: Corsair - STRAFE RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard  ($89.99 @ Amazon) 
Mouse: Logitech - G502 Proteus Spectrum Wired Optical Mouse  ($49.98 @ Amazon) 
Headphones: Logitech - G430 7.1 Channel  Headset  ($38.23 @ Amazon) 
Speakers: Logitech - Z213 7W 2.1ch Speakers  ($25.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
External Storage: Seagate - Backup Plus Slim 2TB External Hard Drive  ($64.99 @ Adorama) 
Total: $1982.09
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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