Completely inane, getting a Z board for an i3, without even having the know-how to overclock them.Not according to the shills at UserBenchmarkBut if you only have $150 to spend, then go for a Ryzen like the 2600 instead, and you can later on upgrade it to even something like the 3950X.The R5-2600 is $133 on Amazon and the R7-2700 is $186. $290 and 24 hours later I have a B450 board, a 2600 and 16GB of 3200CL16 RAM. I’ve always been an Intel guy but I sprung for a Ryzen 5 1600 recently and even with a cheap B350 mobo was able to achieve a 3.8Ghz overclock barely even trying with the stock cooler and it benches about 10% shy of a stock i7 8700k.Yeah, the PC is just for gaming. The i5-8400 is a competitively priced hex-core processor from Intel’s 8th generation of Core processors (Coffee Lake).
I'm currently running on R9 390 GPU and will probably be upgrading near the end of the year (most likely another AMD card). Thanks guys for all the help.If i'd oc'ed it how much of a boost are me talking about?If overclocking, wouldn't be a bad idea to consider the Ryzen 5 2600/X with an X470 motherboard either. These characteristics, together with an IPC (instructions per cycle) number, determine how well a microprocessor performs. This compares reasonably well to the i5-8600K which has a base clock of 3.6 GHz, all core boost of 4.1 GHz and a single core boost of 4.3 GHz. Priced at under $190, the i5-8400 offers fantastic value for money. A320m should be cheaper, they're so close to the B450m range :(.That Intel heatspreader looks like something from Soviet Russia.But muh 6 years old game is 8% faster on the Intel one!That is exactly what I just did. At the price point they were looking at, it was basically a choice between a coffee lake i3, or a first gen r5 (I believe only the Z boards were out at the time or something). It's already setup and working.Even 6C/6T can be limiting these days it seems.We can already see the beginnings of 6c/6t being limiting right now so...In modern titles the 3600 was ~33% faster, and ~50% faster in applications. The i5-8400 also features 9MB of L3 cache and an energy-thrifty TDP of 65W. Is the PC just for gaming?I'll be upgrading my i5 4460 next month and I need some advice about which to buy. For example, Sky or Kaby i5 owners have to spend ~$200US on a 7700K per its eBay listings, in order to get the four extra threads required to get a smoother framerate in modern titles. I thought for a while about Ryzen 5 but I think I'm gonna go with Intel, unless someone can convince me otherwise. Along with the release of the unlocked i5-8600K, this is the first time that six-core processors have featured in the i5 line-up. Is it really worth it to cough up that 200$ (I assume it will take around that much more for everything) for 8600k? I flashed the BIOS on one of my i7-2600 Intel boards and it bricked the MB. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs. Intel Core i5-8400 - Cinebench 11.5, Cinebench R15, PassMark and Geekbench 3 CPU Benchmark results There are so many good 6 and 8 core options.All together, this says to me that the progression in core count under minimum requirements is accelerating and will continue to accelerate in the coming years.I don't understand how the 8700k offers more performance for the price than the 3700X but maybe I misjudged the earlier benchmarks.I always get pushback when I say that in a year or so, 4c/8t will be limiting and most games will use more than 4 cores or 8 threads. … Edit 2: I think I'll go with 8600k. (OP note - Also, for an i7 or i9 you'll need to spend extra on a nicer quality Z370 board, whereas even an A320 board can run a 3600 no problem )