8700K or 9900K pure 4K machine for gaming?

[Hayter]

What will be the best choice 8700K Z370 DDR4 3200 or 9900K Z390 DDR4 3200 pure 4K gaming machine paired with GTX 2080?

[Fasauceome]

You can pair an 8700k with a Z390 or a 9900k with a Z370, so if there's a motherboard you really like you should consider it.

[Princess Luna]

i7 8700K since for gaming alone there will be no difference getting the twice as expensive i9.

[Altruist]

At 4k you'll be gpu limited

[Hayter]

4 minutes ago, Altruist said:

At 4k you'll be gpu limited

I should also mention 1440p I have a old system 4790k at 4.6GHz and I get the same FPS as I get in 4K I pretty sure I’m my cpu is bottlenecking the GPU in Ghost Recon at 1080p.

[DOGEY]

Get the 8700K. Who the hell wants to get a 770$ Cpu when you can have one for 388$ with the same performance.

[mxk]

I think 3000mhz ram is fine. Look into overclocking it and also get an 8700k and maybe a nicer cooler or use the money saved on other parts

[nick name]

I would encourage you get an 8700K and get yourself closer to a 2080ti.  But if you're solely gaming in 4K then a Ryzen 2700X will do well for you also.  

[jones177]

Get as fast as you can afford.

 

I use a i7 8086k overclocked to 5ghz on all cores on my 4k rig. With that & a GTX 1080 ti all my vanilla games ran over 60fps. When I had a i7 6700k in the rig I was in the 50s.

 

I now use a RTX 2080 ti. It allows me to turn things up a notch. 

 

The downside to not using a powerful i7 is that the lows in poorly optimized parts of 3d games are the same at 1080, 1440 & 4k. GPU bottlenecking will not save you from them. The higher the IPC the less you will feel them. 

 

To get the same performance from a i7 8700k as a i9 9900k you will have to win the silicon lottery. 

Do you feel lucky? 

 

A i7 9700k or i7 8086k will give you about the same gaming performance of the i9 9900k without the 2 extra productivity cores. I think they are the best bet for the unlucky.

 

 

[AngryBeaver]

2 hours ago, Hayter said:

What will be the best choice 8700K Z370 DDR4 3200 or 9900K Z390 DDR4 3200 pure 4K gaming machine paired with GTX 2080?

Either will be fine. 4k gaming means you are bound by your GPU and not your CPU.

[Hayter]

Yeah I know 4K is GPU bound I’m on a tight wallet I should of title this post best 4K set up at a budget the 2080 Ti is not on the budget only way I would upgrade to a 2080 Ti is if it was playing the latest games in 4K at 144FPS. Only want 60FPS till next gen the RTX 2080 is more my alley since reviews recommend RTX 2080 4K 60FPS.