Upgrade Advice 4790k -> 9700k

[TheGentry]

Was looking to maybe upgrade with the black friday sale,

I mostly game/stream and think the 9700k is the best bang for buck (for intel)

can anyone recommend a

Motherboard
Ram
Cooler

for a 9700k build

 

[Grimley]

Hows this?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £179.99
• 1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport LT Gray Micron E-Die 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 UDIMM= £69.95
• 1 x be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler= £62.99

Total: £324.03 (includes shipping: £11.10)​

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I put the RAM in because you can keep it in case others on here convince you to buy a Ryzen package instead. Cooler = Same Reason.

 

[TheGentry]

Do you think air cooling is sufficient for streaming or a water AIO and is it worth getting faster ram or is everything over 3000 not worth?

 

[StarShock]

That cooler should do the job well, you might get a bit better cooling out of an aio but not without spending a bunch more money. You see relatively little extra performance from faster ram on Intel, not zero, but you'll be hard pressed to notice.

I would also recommend having a look at the 3700x as an alternative, you would get similar gaming performance but better streaming performance with the 8 extra threads. And its £30 cheaper

 

[TheGentry]

I seen some places are offering cashback on Asus motherboards and CPU bundles is it worth going for a Asus motherboard?