Wich to buy? I5 7600 vs i7 7700
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geofelt
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What is your most important usage?
For most games, the single thread/turbo clock rate is most important. Few games can make use of more than 2-3 threads.
If your games are multiplayer with many participants, then many threads are important.
For editing, many apps can make use of multiple threads. Check on YOUR editing app to see how many threads it can use.
Worth is something only YOU can determine.
No doubt a of the two choices, the I7-7700 will be stronger both in single thread core speeds(3.8/4.5) vs (3.6/4.2) for the i5-7600. Therefore, it will be more "future proof"
You might consider the i7-7700K (4.2/4.5) which runs at near overclocked levels at stock.
If you will consider overclocking, and have a Z270 based motherboard, either will generally oc near 5.0.
Ryzen is a viable option if your most important use is editing AND you can use north of 8 threads.
Ryzen 1700 is $350 and runs at 3.4/3.8 Ryzen OC limit is around 3.9 and the individual core performance is a bit less than intel on a clock for clock basis.
Ryzen is good, I think, ONLY if you know you can use many threads. Think 8-16.
For many
For most games, the single thread/turbo clock rate is most important. Few games can make use of more than 2-3 threads.
If your games are multiplayer with many participants, then many threads are important.
For editing, many apps can make use of multiple threads. Check on YOUR editing app to see how many threads it can use.
Worth is something only YOU can determine.
No doubt a of the two choices, the I7-7700 will be stronger both in single thread core speeds(3.8/4.5) vs (3.6/4.2) for the i5-7600. Therefore, it will be more "future proof"
You might consider the i7-7700K (4.2/4.5) which runs at near overclocked levels at stock.
If you will consider overclocking, and have a Z270 based motherboard, either will generally oc near 5.0.
Ryzen is a viable option if your most important use is editing AND you can use north of 8 threads.
Ryzen 1700 is $350 and runs at 3.4/3.8 Ryzen OC limit is around 3.9 and the individual core performance is a bit less than intel on a clock for clock basis.
Ryzen is good, I think, ONLY if you know you can use many threads. Think 8-16.
For many
Thx for your answers! At first i wanted to buy ryzen 1600, but i thought it wouldnt be stable and reliable (experienced BSOD's) and the bulldozerseries weren't good as predicted. I Will mostly gaming and sometimes video editing. Never OC'd before and i dont want to screw it up.
Definately going with gtx 1060 6gb and b250 mobo when i choose Intel with 8GB ram
Definately going with gtx 1060 6gb and b250 mobo when i choose Intel with 8GB ram
geofelt
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A balanced gamer will budget about 2x the cpu cost for the graphics card.
By that measure, you could well budget a stronger card for any of the processors you are considering.
My suggestion would be a I5-7600K and a Z270 based motherboard.
You will do well running at stock, it will be a bit stronger than a plain 7600.
A Z270 based motherboard is not much more expensive than B250.
The value comes in future proofing.
For perhaps a 10% price premium for a K processor and a Z270 motherboard, you will have about a 35% potential improvement from overclocking.
After all, that is why the K suffix processors were built.
It is just that Intel can not guarantee more than the advertised base clock rates.
As of 2/23/17
What percent of samples can get an overclock
at a vcore around 1.4v.
I5-7600K
5.3 samples exist, unknown % of occurrence
5.2 13%
5.1 27%
5.0 52%
4.9 72%
By that measure, you could well budget a stronger card for any of the processors you are considering.
My suggestion would be a I5-7600K and a Z270 based motherboard.
You will do well running at stock, it will be a bit stronger than a plain 7600.
A Z270 based motherboard is not much more expensive than B250.
The value comes in future proofing.
For perhaps a 10% price premium for a K processor and a Z270 motherboard, you will have about a 35% potential improvement from overclocking.
After all, that is why the K suffix processors were built.
It is just that Intel can not guarantee more than the advertised base clock rates.
As of 2/23/17
What percent of samples can get an overclock
at a vcore around 1.4v.
I5-7600K
5.3 samples exist, unknown % of occurrence
5.2 13%
5.1 27%
5.0 52%
4.9 72%
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