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Help me Decide

KLM

KLM

KLM

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I have been frustrating over these two choices.

5800x and x570 tomahawk @ £638

or

i7-10700k and z490 tomahawk @ £515.

purely for gaming

I have actually ordered the x570 but it hasn't arrived so I could simply change my order.

I am looking for value for money(the 5800 might be quicker but is it £100 quicker)

kind regards
 
My current system is in my sig, the existing board/cpu/ram/gfx are going into another machine I am putting together for one of my children for xmas.

I have already bought 32gb of corsair dd4 3200mhz ram for my new system, I could have gone for 3600 but again value for money suggested tighter timing 3200 at £40 less was a more frugal choice.
 
Isnt the ryzen 5000 series the last cpu on the current socket ? and as the poster above has pointed out, intel roll out pcie4 in march with rocket-lake on the current z490chipset ? Which for me is kinda irrelevant as pcie4 isn't at the forefront of my thinking. but one way or another I would be on pcie4 some time next year with either system.

My concern is that I have to do this before xmas and I am getting the feeling that the 5800x might not be £428 when I come to buy it. but still, I tend to get at least 3-4 years from my systems before handing them down.

on a side note, 32gb (2x16)corsair vengeance pro 3200 cl16 @£125 or 32gb(2x16) corsair vengeance pro 3600cl18 @£150 ?
 
Not for £150, I am not after the quickest of everything I am after a bang for buck upgrade. The price difference between the 2 systems in my op is £120 , now I also plan on buying a new gfx card either nv or amd which ever is best bang4buck but just for interesting comparison and baring in mind how often I upgrade, say every 4 years ,

what would be better for gaming

i7-10700k + rtx3080 or a ryzen 5800x + rtz 3070 if everything was at rrp :)
 
So I have decided to make use of msi cashback and have bought the intel system in the op. £525 free delivery with £45 cashback from msi, £480 in total. I think coming from what I currently have, that is a quite good bang for buck upgrade. I will use the saving to put toward getting a rtx3080 or amd equivalent.
 
I would have loved to have waited until the 5800x released as I'm neither loyal to any brand, but msi cashback offer ends on the 31st and with the way prices are now going with new releases and existing line ups, I just know my luck:) , and I could foresee, rightly or wrongly that I would end up paying more for either systems in a couple of weeks.

I think I have done well getting what I have for the price and I know it will last me 3-4 years
 
I know that my next upgrade will be board/cpu/ram again. by which time my other kids pc will need upgrading, she is on my old i5-2500k/gtx1070 system. Also that 10700k has gone up £10 since 7.30 this morning.
 
I read somewhere earlier this year that out of 2000 different products on sale on black Friday a very large percentage had been cheaper at some other point in the year.
 
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