I5 or i7?

[SychosisPatient]

Intel® Core™ i7 8086K
Intel® Core™ i5K 8600K

 

If I mainly use my pc for gaming/streaming. Do I really need the i7? How good is the i5 in comparison? I saw some YT videos and I don't think there is much in it. I would like some feedback from other users though. Don't the GPU's have there own processors in them?

[truecrafting]

woah man i really recommend for multi core workloads like streaming and editng etc to use ryzen yeah performance base AMD is a bit low but in terms of performance the RYZEN 7 2700 or just even the 2600 will dou you fine but if you really want intel the I7-8086K is quite expensive and i would just suggest you get the 8700k

[airdeano]

8086 is 6 physical cores and 12 threads

8600 is 6 physical cores and 6 threads (no hyper threading).

multi-tasking loads (streaming/gaming) needs a lot of cores/threads to keep from developing issues, lags, output and trans-coding.

if doing one or the other, then 6 cores is simply enough. doing all of that at the same time, will deffo give you hiccups.

[SychosisPatient]

@truecraftingYeah I think thats the best option.

[truecrafting]

3 minutes ago, airdeano said:

8086 is 8 physical cores and 16 threads

8600 is 8 physical cores and 8 threads (no hyper threading).

multi-tasking loads (streaming/gaming) needs a lot of cores/threads to keep from developing issues, lags, output and trans-coding.

if doing one or the other, then 8 cores is simply enough. doing all of that at the same time, will deffo give you hiccups.

you mean 6 cores

 

3 minutes ago, SychosisPatient said:

@truecraftingYeah I think thats the best option.

in terms of price to performance it's a great pick up

 

[airdeano]

@truecrafting thanks corrected..

[SidM]

the 8086k is just a glorified 8700k, you can overclock both of them to over 5 ghz, the 8086k is just overpriced, get the 8700k pls. On delidding mine i got a clock speed of 5.3ghz on all cores, without delidding, 5ghz plus im pretty sure that my chip is a silicon lottery loser.

[SychosisPatient]

Alienware bumped up the price of the i7 Aurora version due to a limited edition i7. Thats why I am asking about the i5.

[truecrafting]

1 minute ago, SychosisPatient said:

Alienware bumped up the price of the i7 Aurora version due to a limited edition i7. Thats why I am asking about the i5.

oh you're buying a pre built well um yeah buy the i7 cuz it's better

[Princess Luna]

14 minutes ago, airdeano said:

multi-tasking loads (streaming/gaming) needs a lot of cores/threads to keep from developing issues, lags, output and trans-coding

Or QuickSync it with iGPU for small degradation of quality for all the performance needed for smooth streaming. the i5 8600K should suffice for streaming as a hobby.

 

Then again I think the best solution is the locked i7 8700 instead, get the threads paying way less with a b360+2666mhz memory combo while 4.3ghz all cores clock still renders it faster single thread wise than a overclocked Ryzen 5 2600x but with Ryzen 7 1700 multi-threading.

[SychosisPatient]

Operating System
    Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
    AMD FX-8350    35 °C
    Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
    16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
    Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0 (Socket M2)    32 °C
Graphics
    LG TV (1920x1080@60Hz)
    2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (ASUStek Computer Inc)    40 °C
Storage
    931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-00WN4A0 ATA Device (SATA)    33 °C
    1863GB Seagate Expansion SCSI Disk Device (USB (SATA))    30 °C
Optical Drives
    HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSD0 ATA Device
Audio
    NVIDIA High Definition Audio

[SychosisPatient]

How does that AMD compare with the i5 that I mentioned earlier?

[truecrafting]

you can't compare

[SychosisPatient]

@truecraftingWell, I do ok with this processor so I might just go with the i5 :D.