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8600k or 8700k
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Since when has PC upgrading been about 'need'.
If you upgrade regularly for the sake of it then it makes sense to buy the cheaper option every couple of years with its new generation replacement.
The guy is upgrading from a 2500k. The 2500k was a bang for buck cpu at release and has lasted about 6 years.
Doesn't strike me as the type of buyer who needs to buy the highest end.
No it doesn't. What if you want the all the power now?
And if you had bought a 7700k 6 months ago you would need to factor in a new mobo just for that upgrade.
You buy the fastest cpu you can afford.
Your post is nonsense.
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I would get the 8700k.
Seen quite a few YT vids showing how good the 8700K is for BF1 at least when paired with a high end GPU like a 1080ti - same for PUBG. I was speccing the i5-8600k for a new build after people said thats all you need for gaming. For the sake of £100 I’d rather not be what if or find I later ditch the 8600k and it costs more in the long run to upgrade to 8700k. Just depends on how tight your budget is.
In fact I would wait 8 weeks and get an 8 core 16 thread 9700k
Surely that will be £450+ based on 8600-8700k?
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If would depend for me what graphics card you will be using or intending to use further down the line. I would rather have the 8600k with a 1070 than a 8700k with a 1060. If you are considering a 1080 or a 1080 ti further down the line i wouldn't get anything but a 8700k.
The 8700k is what I'm opting for, and I'm going to make the effort to buy a higher spec motherboard to go with it, being as we're force to replace them. Seems that for the extra £80 or so you can future proof your system a little more.
Been looking at the Asrock z370 professional gaming board. It's got most things onboard and should sit well with a 8700k processor. Put it with a 1070ti and it should do me for the next few years without costing £300+.
As for the 1080ti, it's just prohibitively expensive at the mo. At north of £700, it's still a little beyond my reach. I'd I imagine a 1070ti with the 8700k supporting it should see me through the next 24months or so and is worth the extra £90 more in my opinion.
There was a time when £700 would buy you a complete gaming pc. Boy how times have changed!
Been looking at the Asrock z370 professional gaming board. It's got most things onboard and should sit well with a 8700k processor. Put it with a 1070ti and it should do me for the next few years without costing £300+.
As for the 1080ti, it's just prohibitively expensive at the mo. At north of £700, it's still a little beyond my reach. I'd I imagine a 1070ti with the 8700k supporting it should see me through the next 24months or so and is worth the extra £90 more in my opinion.
There was a time when £700 would buy you a complete gaming pc. Boy how times have changed!
That doesn't make sense, you're opting for the more expensive motherboard because you're forced to replace them?
Wouldn't it make more sense to get a cheaper one? Considering it has 0 effect on performance?
No. Whilst it's true that most of us are forced to upgrade their MB with the new cpus, all I'm saying is that it's worth fishing through some of the higher spec boards whilst your at it. Additional M.2 support and extra sata slots will make life easier in the future. Sata slots are disabled when M.2 slots are used so the extra slots will prove useful. (The disabling of sata slots applies to all the z370 range, regardless of make from what I can see)
Built in half decent WIFI and LAN connections save on cluttering up the case with additional cards, and good sound onboard all saves space.
If I want to make use of M.2 to store worthy amounts of data in the future, when the price of the drives come down, which they will, I don't want to be losing my sata support for my old hardware doing it. An extra £60 now on a higher spec board will futureproof me to some degree. Money well invested.
Motherboards tend to get bought cheap, in favour of high spec gpus and the lastest cpu - much like we're chatting about here.
There the backbone to a decent rig. Personally, what I plug my cpu into carries carries as much weight as to the cpu itself. It's all to easy to by the cheapest board that will do the job. It's a mistake in my view. If we're over clocking then a stable board will help push those ddr4 slots, something we all tend to do these days, for example.
This was about CPU upgrades, so sorry for going off the thread a bit.
(I know it's more expense, but it's £60 or so. It's worth looking at with as much care as we apply to cpu choice. When we're overclocking we're relying on a stable system. Spending a few extra quid now gives us the ability to push everything we're investing in, be it cpus or graphics cards, that little bit further in the future)
Built in half decent WIFI and LAN connections save on cluttering up the case with additional cards, and good sound onboard all saves space.
If I want to make use of M.2 to store worthy amounts of data in the future, when the price of the drives come down, which they will, I don't want to be losing my sata support for my old hardware doing it. An extra £60 now on a higher spec board will futureproof me to some degree. Money well invested.
Motherboards tend to get bought cheap, in favour of high spec gpus and the lastest cpu - much like we're chatting about here.
There the backbone to a decent rig. Personally, what I plug my cpu into carries carries as much weight as to the cpu itself. It's all to easy to by the cheapest board that will do the job. It's a mistake in my view. If we're over clocking then a stable board will help push those ddr4 slots, something we all tend to do these days, for example.
This was about CPU upgrades, so sorry for going off the thread a bit.
(I know it's more expense, but it's £60 or so. It's worth looking at with as much care as we apply to cpu choice. When we're overclocking we're relying on a stable system. Spending a few extra quid now gives us the ability to push everything we're investing in, be it cpus or graphics cards, that little bit further in the future)
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