Gaming PC/Personal Miner: i7 7700k or Ryzen 1700x?

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I currently run an older i5 computer, but i have been thinking of upgrading due to having a couple of hundred in ebay bucks this month to spend from previous purchases.

Current rig does not support SLI, but i have 3 x 1080ti's. I have 2 plugged into x16 slots and one plugged into x1 slot on a powered riser sitting on my computer desk outside the case. I use this computer for gaming/personal use when i want to, but when its not being used i have it mining away at alt coins and its already payed for itself in just a few short months.....

I am thinking of upgrading CPU's, because when i game with the 1 x 1080ti, in some titles im sitting in the high 90's for cpu%, secondly i would like to be able to use SLI gaming if i could. So i am thinking of buying a motherboard with 3 x X16 slots so i can place all 3 GPU's inside the case.
 
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Mining, you say?
Ahh the Ethereum craze.

Get yourself a 1700X over the 7700K all day.
Why?
Ryzen 1700X - 24 lanes X370
You can run 3x GTX 1080 Ti on 8xPCiE 3.0
Core i7 7700K - 16 lanes Z270
Unless you want to run 1x at 8xPCiE 3.0 and 2x at 4xPCiE 3.0, then get the 1700X.

Also, since Ryzen 1700X has 8 cores which can easily be OCed to 1800X levels, or 4 GHz on water, single thread performance is only slightly behind 7700K, at most 20% behind when 7700K hits 5 GHz. But you get Double the cores.
This means that you can game on one GTX 1080Ti with 4 of the Ryzen cores, with the other 2 1080Ti's having the other 4 cores feed them hashes.

Saturation of 7700K's 4 CPU cores can cause mining to stall while gaming, because most gaming uses 4...
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For general gaming, the 7700k is better. Not sure about mining, but I doubt it's nearly as intensive on the CPU as it is the GPU. The Ryzen 1700x would be a better choice if you ever plan on streaming or doing CPU intensive tasks such as rendering, but for general gaming the 7700k will perform better and more efficiently.
 
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Mining, you say?
Ahh the Ethereum craze.

Get yourself a 1700X over the 7700K all day.
Why?
Ryzen 1700X - 24 lanes X370
You can run 3x GTX 1080 Ti on 8xPCiE 3.0
Core i7 7700K - 16 lanes Z270
Unless you want to run 1x at 8xPCiE 3.0 and 2x at 4xPCiE 3.0, then get the 1700X.

Also, since Ryzen 1700X has 8 cores which can easily be OCed to 1800X levels, or 4 GHz on water, single thread performance is only slightly behind 7700K, at most 20% behind when 7700K hits 5 GHz. But you get Double the cores.
This means that you can game on one GTX 1080Ti with 4 of the Ryzen cores, with the other 2 1080Ti's having the other 4 cores feed them hashes.

Saturation of 7700K's 4 CPU cores can cause mining to stall while gaming, because most gaming uses 4 cores.

You can game while you mine on Ryzen 1700X. And still retain 2/3 hashrate while doing so.

But if you want the best single thread performance and multithread, just get yourself a i7 7820X or i7 6900K, and pay through the nose.

Good luck, and Good MH/s rate!
 
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