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The i5-8600K is a bit of an odd one IMO. Either you run it at stock, in which case there isn't much point to it over an i5-8400 (~40% more for an extra 300 MHz), or you go balls to the wall, delid the thing and run it at 5+ GHz, in which case wouldn't it just be better to go for an i7-8700K? Yes it's also 40% more but you get double the threads, plus the cost of a top-notch cooling solution and delidding make the difference less extreme. Also if I was going to all that trouble I'd want it to last, and 6c/12t will have more longevity.
Personally chose a 2700(non x) over the 8600k due to the ever increasing multithreaded optimisation of software and the actually overhead in the present , anyone that says single core performance is still king does what exactly ? Plays games from 2014 and opens a single app at a time ? , having owned i7s for a long time 2700k 4770k and a 5820k I more recently an i5 6500 ( which was the better choice pre Ryzen ) , I founded multithreaded performance being my main drawback , 4 cores for battlefield is laughable , and what to upgrade to a 6 core which again by the time bf5 comes out will be laughable again (up to 50% cpu util on bf5 closed alpha, you do the math as 8 real threads are being used here , for Intel it’s 6 real and 2 HTT ) I hate the term as there really isn’t such a thing but the 2700 and non x parts over intel’s mainstream platforms are far more futureproof , still compete and often in heavy cpu tittles with threaded optimisation Ryzen dismantles an i5 and and makes an i7 looks pretty lackluster for its price
As an enthusiast personally I don’t care abou dead end sockets , it’s always been that way and will no doubt continue , I buy a new board with a new chip every time , half the fun is in the platform generally , so always add this to my cost , and often a comparible AMD board is more expensive than an Intel one provided features have Parety
You don't care that you'd have to buy an all new motherboard if you wanted to stay with the latest tech, as you would with Intel? That's a BIG extra expense, far more than is countered by slightly higher cost of the motherboard... assuming that is even the case as it isn't always, just depends on the motherboard in question. Still, as an enthusiast myself I just feel Intel are taking the proverbial wee-wee with their antics, and I'm switching to Ryzen partly for this, but also because what a 2700X offers is so damn close in most games, and superior in other multi-threaded tasks. Plus I know I wouldn't notice the extra FPS gains in games that an 8700K would give me. Add to that the knowledge I'd be able to upgrade my CPU in a year or so without having to buy a new motherboard, and it's really no-brainer for me at the end of the day.
Of course, I'm aware some people will just want the best game performance regardless and don't care about the value proposition, but each to their own.
I didn’t say it wasn’t fast, just dissapointing. No issuesSounds like you had issues if desktop is not fast with a Ryzen.
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