i5 8400 seems like a decent buy now with a H310/B360 boards

[daniel2K16]

It's Late but I think all it really needed was some cheaper bloody boards. £50-60 board with £150 6 Core i5 chip is a good deal IMO.

 

[jigger]

If you can overlook the security flaws and/or don't mind a drop in performance/waiting for fixes then yeah £200 for a 6 thread Intel is decent deal and what Intel should have launched with IMO.

 

[gavinh87]

The average home user needn't worry about the security flaws.
Even so the 8400 will still best ryzen in games. With the cheaper boards Intel now have i reckon these 8400s will become a lot more popular.

 

[jigger]

Jigger strongly disagrees with Gavin. The average home user should be concerned about getting exploited. If the system is a console PC switched on 2 hours a day not so much.

 

[gavinh87]

Who even speaks about themselves in the 3rd person lol. You are a strange man.

 

[jigger]

Who even speaks about themselves in the 3rd person lol. You are a strange man.

TBH I did type out a pretty decently sized reply, but then thought, it's Gavin keep it simple. Five words seemed about right.

 

[gavinh87]

TBH I did type out a pretty decently sized reply, but then thought, it's Gavin keep it simple. Five words seemed about right.

Thanks James.

 

[shamus21]

Just go for the 8700 turbo`s to 4.6Ghz if you keep an eye on pricing they can be picked up for 220.00

 

[jigger]

Just go for the 8700 turbo`s to 4.6Ghz if you keep an eye on pricing they can be picked up for 220.00

Hmm, it *might* turbo to 4.6Ghz with really good cooling.

 

[Calo]

Are you building a 4K Gaming rig? Just curious as I'm thinking an i5 8400 would do, plus a 1080ti equivalent GPU. At those resolutions, there wont be much difference between, say, an 8600k vs 8400. Someone tell me if I'm wrong!

(not a big drop in the ocean if building a new rig like that anyway, but could saving 100 clams to go towards games etc.)