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Hello everyone

I have been debating on what cpu would be a good upgrade, but i can not decide.

I have been thinking, reading and watching videos since the release of the r7 and i just can't choose between the i7 7700k or r7 1700.

It will be paired with a gtx 1070 at 1080p 60hz.
Mostly gaming but als some graphical / video work


Currently have a i5 3570k at 4.6Ghz
 
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This exact question has been asked in this forum several times per day since Ryzen was released, and there's no clear answer. Just to regurgitate what's been said on here:

The i7 7700 delivers better framerates in today's games since its cores are much faster, and virtually no games use more than the i7's 8 threads. However, in the better threaded and more intense games, you won't have any idle cores, so doing something in the background like...
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Motherboard is showing its age. Ports not finctioning proper anymore. And lots of stuttering in games. I'm one of those people who want to max every game and have no stuttering.

And i looked into the 1600, but wouldn't the 1700 be more "future proof" with its additional cores?
 
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This exact question has been asked in this forum several times per day since Ryzen was released, and there's no clear answer. Just to regurgitate what's been said on here:

The i7 7700 delivers better framerates in today's games since its cores are much faster, and virtually no games use more than the i7's 8 threads. However, in the better threaded and more intense games, you won't have any idle cores, so doing something in the background like streaming will have more of an impact on framerates with an i7 than on Ryzen, which will have far more in terms of idle resources. That's not to say the i7 still might not have higher framerates, but the Ryzen CPU on paper has a bit more multithreaded performance.

Between 1600 and 1700, considering AAA games are just recently starting to show benefit from more than 4 threads, I don't expect there will be any significant difference between a 12 and 16 thread CPU during the useful life of these two chips.
 
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