Best Value Intel CPU at present?

[aoaaron]

With the new intel pricing for their 9000 series.

1. What is a good price for an 8700k?
2. Would a 8086k around £400 be worth it?
3. Do intel CPUs require top of the line RAM?


I'm not sure whether to go for an 8086k now as the 9900k seems way out of reach and the 9700k im not sure if its going to be worth the price premimum over the 8700k given it doesn't have HT.

 

[aoaaron]

Intel CPUs are in a silly place sitting here with a 4820K that manages an OK overclock there is nothing really tempting if it has less than 8 cores / 16 threads but the Intel CPUs that can do that aren't really tempting price wise. I'd feel like a mug buying a 6 core / 12 thread CPU even for mostly gaming and even if it managed 5+GHz.

Honestly my bigggest regret from my build 4 or 5 years ago was not going for the i7 in regards to my 4670k. It just hasn't aged well. a few more hyperthreaded cores would have got me by on video editting and gaming.


I don't want to make that mistake again lol.


As much as I like the idea of AMD, gaming is my priority. I've never upgraded my CPU until about 5 years, and I use emulators which AMD just don't play nicely with due to IPC.

 

[aoaaron]

Yeah totally agree.


Given the costs of the 9000 series, I'm trying to find a happy medium for

your going to have to change the board in any case so why not amd ? it's so much cheaper ...

I've read benchmarks for dolphin/CEMU and they say to expect similar FPS to haswell.


I don't have much use for all their cores and would prefer better gaming performance. the AMD 2700x builds I've seen are within 100£ of AMD.


I can get an 8700k w/mobo and 16GB of RAM and cooler for £720ish
I can get an 8086k w/mobo and 16GB of RAM and cooler for £750ish
From this site, I can get a 2700x with 16GB of RAM for £620ish




Please if I'm wrong, someone educate me as I'm sure there must be a flaw someone in my logic.


To me £400 for an 8086k seems like a great price. Am i being thick? I can't find an 8700k for <400... ! and I feel as if the 8086k may match the 9700k which is going for £500.

 

[aoaaron]

That's just a lie. I use emulators on my 2700X, including the most demanding ones out there like Cemu and RPCS3, and see great performance. You're living in the past if you think there's some huge IPC gap between Intel and AMD.

There's a clockspeed gap of course, but I'm yet to meet the game that I can't emulate on Ryzen at full speed that I could on an Intel chip. In fact, it's a question I pose to people who parrot this nonsense about emulation all the time - name a game on an emulator that I can't run at full speed on my 2700X which does run at full speed on an Intel chip. I'm yet to receive an answer in about 15 tries, so maybe this is my lucky day? Name one and I'll report back.

I was unaware of this. I've read everywhere that the AMD processors struggle, e.g. CEMU BOTW compared to the intel.

I actualy just posted on the CEMU reddit and they all said go to intel...


Hmmm... I'm so undecided now on where to go! My rig is mostly going to be used for gaming and everyones told me intel is better due to the higher clockspeed. Do the AMDs come with their own coolers?

 

[aoaaron]

Sadly guys i have a 4670k and its bottlenecking me badly haha.


So you guys suggest that the 2700x is actually BETTER than the 8700k/8086k? Why do people pay the preimum for it?

I'm so confused.
BTW I'm gaming at 4k/VR as main priority.

 

[aoaaron]

If your gaming at 4k CPU almost becomes irrelevant as your GPU bound anyhow.

Not the case with VR. Especially Fallout 4 and Skyrim as I've encountered.