Broke my son's motherboard. Need to build new PC. Which CPU to go with GTX 1070?

[Amin S]

I went to Microcenter planning to get either an i5 8400 or an R5 2600.  The sales person thought they were comparable but that the AMD might prove to be a little more future proof, so I went with that.  I realize that not everyone would agree with him, but I will say that I like how AMD seems to sometimes let you change processor generations without a new motherboard.  None of my many Intel builds have allowed for that.

 

This is the system I built him tonight:

 

GIGABYTE X470 AORUS GAMING 5 AM4

AMD AMD RYZEN 5 2600 WRAITHS

SAMSUNG E 500GB 970EVO NVME M.2 SSD

MICROSOFT WIN HOME 10 32/64 USB RS

IPSG 16GB 2X8GB DDR4 3200 KIT

EVGA GQ 650W 80+G SM ATX PSU

 

I put that together with his existing GTX 1070 and an extra Fractal Design Define R6 case I had lying around.

 

This was my first AMD processor build, and it went very smoothly.  Not a hitch.  Most importantly, my son loves it.

 

Thanks for the help, everyone!  

[Galion]

22 minutes ago, Amin S said:

I went to Microcenter planning to get either an i5 8400 or an R5 2600.  The sales person thought they were comparable but that the AMD might prove to be a little more future proof, so I went with that.  I realize that not everyone would agree with him, but I will say that I like how AMD seems to sometimes let you change processor generations without a new motherboard.  None of my many Intel builds have allowed for that.

 

This is the system I built him tonight:

 

GIGABYTE X470 AORUS GAMING 5 AM4

AMD AMD RYZEN 5 2600 WRAITHS

SAMSUNG E 500GB 970EVO NVME M.2 SSD

MICROSOFT WIN HOME 10 32/64 USB RS

IPSG 16GB 2X8GB DDR4 3200 KIT

EVGA GQ 650W 80+G SM ATX PSU

 

I put that together with his existing GTX 1070 and an extra Fractal Design Define R6 case I had lying around.

 

This was my first AMD processor build, and it went very smoothly.  Not a hitch.  Most importantly, my son loves it.

 

Thanks for the help, everyone!  

Glad to help, as a lot of them help with my first pc build as well. 

It was also them, that inspired me to start my pc corner in my uncle's hardware shop.