Ryzen 5 1600x vs the Ryzen 7 1700x

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chewbakkah

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I live near Microcenter, and as many of you know they have great deals on motherboard and cpu bundles. I'm having an internal debate on the following two builds

Ryzen 5 1600x with Asus Prime X370 Pro @ $339

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Ryzen 7 1700x with ASUS PRIME B350M-A/CSM AM4 at $349

I do plan to overclock either one with a Noctua NH-d14 as my cooler. And I'm also running a Strix GTX 1080. I'm looking to game in 4k mainly with the build. I don't need SLI that the X boards give. I also am going to be looking at 16gb of 3200mhz ram for the build if that makes any difference.

I guess the main difference here is gain CPU quality and lose MB quality. But which one is more important in gaming at 4k?

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Hellfire13
Both processors are equally good in handling 4k gaming and will give you around the same region of fps... http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/feature-amd-ryzen-5-vs-ryzen-7-which-ryzen-cpu-provides-most-bang-your-buck/gaming-benchmarks-overclocking-0 (focus on RED and YELLOW)
Now for gaming I would ideally choose 1600x for two specific reason. First, you dont need 8 cores for gaming, not now, not in the near future. So thats resource wasted. Second and more importantly, the 1600x will overclock better due to two lesser cores and hence less heat generated.
As for the board, you can go with a good b350 board like the MSI B350 GAMING PRO CARBON with good VRM setup and a lot of power phases, unless you want the bling factor of x370 boards. But...
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Both processors are equally good in handling 4k gaming and will give you around the same region of fps... http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/feature-amd-ryzen-5-vs-ryzen-7-which-ryzen-cpu-provides-most-bang-your-buck/gaming-benchmarks-overclocking-0 (focus on RED and YELLOW)
Now for gaming I would ideally choose 1600x for two specific reason. First, you dont need 8 cores for gaming, not now, not in the near future. So thats resource wasted. Second and more importantly, the 1600x will overclock better due to two lesser cores and hence less heat generated.
As for the board, you can go with a good b350 board like the MSI B350 GAMING PRO CARBON with good VRM setup and a lot of power phases, unless you want the bling factor of x370 boards. But if the b350 costs you more separately, stick to the x370 as the x370 chipset has better OC potential by default.
Hope this helps.
 
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chewbakkah

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So hellfire, you're saying pick the better motherboard for its better OC potential due to heat syncs and such? I've got the best air cooler on the market and my current fx 8320 is JACKED lol.
 
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