3600 or 3700x?

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I am about to build my first new PC since Sandy bridge and due to being out of the loop for a while i wanted your opinions on the above choice...

This PC will be ITX and used for 1440p gaming and web browsing with no productivity stuff other than opening the odd compressed file etc. I plan to pair it with either a 2070S or a 5700XT after i have seen what the customer 5700XT cooler solutions offer in august.

I have the funds for the 3700x, but if the actual gains over the 3600 in my use case scenario are limited i could easily use the £120~ saving to improve the RAM, CPU cooler or kit my case out with 4 Noctua fans

I don't do major upgrades that often so looking at 3-4 year set and forget kind of thing.

Thanks,
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I play at 1440p and use a RTX 2080. I decided to go with a 3600 rather than a 3700x and go with better RAM.
Looking at the benchmarks on YouTube etc at 1440p the difference is pretty small as it's more GPU bound.

Cheers chap, i will probably follow suit with some 3600mhz ram and a better cooler

I intend to build something along those lines... what ITX board are you going to use?

Cheers

Pre launch i was pretty set on a Asus Strix-I build, but it seems that the supply of X570 ITX boards on a whole is really poor with OcUk only stocking the Gigabyte one at the moment. So i am not 100% sure currently ...

 

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I now find myself leaning towards the 3700x and the gigabyte board