What CPU to Buy - Late 2018

[Compassionate Homicide]

7 hours ago, Daniel644 said:

Ryzen 5 1600's are going for $125 USD at Microcenter, just saying price to performance that shit is on FIRE (in a good way, not like that RTX card from WAN Show).

1700x is at $130, It beats down the 1600 and 1600x, sure it doesn't come with a cooler, but spend $30-35 on a Hyper 212 LED, lap that mofo, and OC.

[Compassionate Homicide]

6 hours ago, mariushm said:

 

IMHO they should have been included at least as a honorable mention.

In general, processors are safe purchases so even if they're not in retail stores, they can be safely bought from eBay.

 

Ryzen cpus in particular are even better deals because of backwards compatibility, you may find discounted B350 boards for example at cheap prices. On Intel's side, you have to be careful about what motherboard and what chipset to buy if you want to overclock and all that crap.

 

 

My B450 Tomahawk cost me a whopping $60 at MicroCenter a month ago.

[Canada EH]

2 hours ago, QXC said:

involve a spreadsheet full of info, why not publish a cleaned up version of it?

Version of the video or the spreadsheet.

 

Either way it involves additional work, when the primary clicks have already taken place, so the profit to work ratio is incomputable IMHO

[Daniel644]

32 minutes ago, Compassionate Homicide said:

1700x is at $130, It beats down the 1600 and 1600x, sure it doesn't come with a cooler, but spend $30-35 on a Hyper 212 LED, lap that mofo, and OC.

NICE!!!!!!!

[リチャード]

13 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

I think it's a bit better but costs more. I haven't looked into the 9600K, but my 8600K at 5.1Ghz stomps 1080p, 1440p, and 4K with my SLI 1080s and, so if a 9600K costs more, it's pointless. Wouldn't notice the benefit even if it is faster because I can already push 200fps at 1440p in games that scale well, and 120-144 in 4K. This was in Battlefront 2015 at ultra settings with no AA, but it should push 1440p no problem with a 1080 Ti or something in games that don't scale well with SLI. 

 

10 hours ago, mariushm said:

I would guess because it's hard to buy (limited availability) or has bad price for performance compared to others.

 

The benchmarks I've looked at say the 9600K is ~3-8% better performing than the 8600K for only $10 more (3% more, so you're at least breaking even). It's currently the only available 9th generation chip, though this depends on where you're at I suppose. It makes no sense to include the 8600K but not the 9600K. Would've been the top runner-up for $1000 gaming PC if it had been included, I reckon. Its motherboards aren't more expensive, neither. Oh well...

[williamcll]

13 hours ago, Rickster said:

I'm in the market to buy a CPU this black friday, but im stuck between a rock an a hard place...

 

Do i go with the i7-8700k or the i7-9700k.

 

6 cores 12 threads vs 8 cores and 8 threads.

 

My mind is telling me to get the 8700k but im just not 100% sure, also the 9700k has solder under the HS whereas the 8700k doesn't.

 

9700k is slightly faster

[Rickster]

14 hours ago, Streetguru said:

The R5 1600 at $120

the entire 9th gen is a joke.

Hmmm, I cant do this as my awesome Noctua aftermarket cooler wont work on AMD. And shopping across the world for the right brackets are an issue.

[Neftex]

15 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yes because being able to grab a much cheaper mATX b360 and stock cooler/cheap for a CPU configuration that can keep up with a RTX 2080 Ti is awful value proposition.

 

Please this is LTT Forum, one would hope you to know people here can go past the basic spec sheet in a CPU, both have Identical all core turbo boost of 4.3ghz displaying the very same performance comparing stock for stock.

stock cooler isnt enough for it to keep the boost clock?

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, Neftex said:

stock cooler isnt enough for it to keep the boost clock?

It is? It just sounds bad/loud.

[Princess Luna]

1 hour ago, williamcll said:

9700k is slightly faster

According to what? I have seen plenty iof instances the i7 8700K outperforms it thanks to HT and smaller ring bus and clock for clock their single thread performance is the same as it's the same 14++ architecture.

 

Being honest both CPU are much the same... With tiny slides in favour to each side here and there

[Speed Weed]

Ryzen CPU no doubt. 

[Neftex]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

It is? It just sounds bad/loud.

its not, also if the motherboard limits it to 65w tdp, it will power throttle

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-8700-cpu-review,5638-2.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2HuMxB0qT0

[Princess Luna]

9 minutes ago, Neftex said:

its not, also if the motherboard limits it to 65w tdp, it will power throttle

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-8700-cpu-review,5638-2.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2HuMxB0qT0

I own one, I think I know what it does.

[Neftex]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

I own one, I think I know what it does.

well i dont think you do, since i linked much more reputable sources than you are

[josdekleijn]

I am curious as to how the percentages in the video were calculated. I would like to make such a spreadsheet for myself but with prices for the Netherlands where the price gap between CPU's is sometimes quite different.

[Ashleyyyy]

i can understand not featuring the used market, because the prices vary a bit... 

 

however, the budgets here were rounded off, so if you looked at completed listings for older stuff you could round that off to and say they go for around that much. 

[Princess Luna]

1 hour ago, Neftex said:

well i dont think you do, since i linked much more reputable sources than you are

 

With a slight adjustment to the BLCK it outperforms the stock i7 8700K staying on about 78~79Cº with the stock cooler, so yeah kid chill.

[ki8aras]

19 hours ago, Kalman81 said:

Hi everyone, need your help with what should I buy for a workstation PC with a $2000 budget, considering I would use a Threadripper 2920X? how do I know if I will be needing a quadro card?

what do u wanna do with the pc

[Nicnac]

This is probably your most important video of the year lmg ^^ hope everyone uses the affiliate links when buying.

 

On another note: The question is pretty much Ryzen 1700 or 2700 ^^

[Deusrex]

I wish you would have provided component lists for the 9 computers you're listing. I understand why you didn't but I think it would have been helpful.

[Compassionate Homicide]

23 hours ago, Daniel644 said:

NICE!!!!!!!

Especially given the fact that I'm running at over 4Ghz, all cores, on air. By far one of the best value processors ATM.

[Daniel644]

2 minutes ago, Compassionate Homicide said:

Especially given the fact that I'm running at over 4Ghz, all cores, on air. By far one of the best value processors ATM.

[Compassionate Homicide]

7 minutes ago, Daniel644 said:

I had a feeling they'd sell out. My local store is out now too here in Michigan.

[Daniel644]

1 minute ago, Compassionate Homicide said:

I had a feeling they'd sell out. My local store is out now too here in Michigan.

it went so fast, my store had 10+ when I went to bed last night, had 9 when I left for work, had 2 when I got to work less then an hour later and sold out shortly after that, then an hour or 2 after that Newegg sold out, currently the next cheapest option is Amazon at $176 and change, which is not far from what Microcenter had been selling them for prior to the sale. I was hoping to talk the boss into buying one for the office PC so we can dump the FX6300 but they where all gone before he got back.

[theklax]

@GabenJr I would appreciate a list of sources used when you guys do this kind of content. I'm not implying you'd cite Toms', but what if you did?