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Need a new CPU - whats the current price/performance king for 1440p gaming?

I agree with most of this thread, right now 12600K

The Ryzen 7600X is also a very good gaming CPU but until B650 Motherboards are out its too pricey, if the CPU was 20 or £30 cheaper that would be good too.

Edit: the Ryzen 5700X is quite good too.
 
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at this point I'd get B660 + i5 12600K
or if budget is tight i5 12400 instead of 12600K so you'll have CPU upgrade options if required later on.
the AMD 5600X/5700X/5800X in comparison are not good value at this point (unless heavily discounted) and the platform is done.

for gaming at 1440P,UW and 4K,bottleneck will be GPU not CPU.
 
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124000/12400F
5600/5600X
AMD system over Intel for me as the AM4 has the 5800X3D which can be a good insocket upgrade down the line.

Both Intel and AMD systems based on the above are EoL platforms if future upgrades is what you want as well thus suggest the AMD
 
pc-guy said:
124000/12400F
5600/5600X
AMD system over Intel for me as the AM4 has the 5800X3D which can be a good insocket upgrade down the line.

Both Intel and AMD systems based on the above are EoL platforms if future upgrades is what you want as well thus suggest the AMD
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don't think that's correct.B660 board will support intel's next generation processors.
whereas AMD AM4 is done.58000X3D isn't generational upgrade.
 
JK2022 said:
don't think that's correct.B660 board will support intel's next generation processors.
whereas AMD AM4 is done.58000X3D isn't generational upgrade.
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Bios updates will support RL on B660 but the B660 is still dead the same as AM4

No DDR5, PCIE5 just the same. Yea you get 13th gen albeit we don’t know actually how well it will be supported but you don’t get any of the generational upgrades as you like to say.

There’s still a but here. If you go RL you can grab a new mobo and get the generational updates once they mature and hopefully cost goes down because those new mobos and ddr 5 gonna be expensive for awhile.

If the OP is gonna stick to alderlake then that’s not the case as you’d still have to update almost the whole system down the line….. which means AM4 Vs alderlake… I’d personally go AM4 and punch for the x3D
 
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JAMIE_CORTEZ said:
Bios updates will support RL on B660 but the B660 is still dead the same as AM4

No DDR5, PCIE5 just the same. Yea you get 13th gen albeit we don’t know actually how well it will be supported but you don’t get any of the generational upgrades as you like to say.

There’s still a but here. If you go RL you can grab a new mobo and get the generational updates once they mature and hopefully cost goes down because those new mobos and ddr 5 gonna be expensive for awhile.

If the OP is gonna stick to alderlake then that’s not the case as you’d still have to update almost the whole system down the line….. which means AM4 Vs alderlake… I’d personally go AM4 and punch for the x3D
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the B550 also supported Zen 3 only after bios update (I was a very early adapter on 5600x on launch day),it's true no DDR5,PCIE5 on B660 but we'll have to wait for the benchmarks before writing it off as useless for 13th gen.
it is still supporting the next generation,AM5 is not.
for the high price of Zen 3 3D ,one might be better off spending a bit more and upgrade MB & Memory to jump straight to Zen 4 (or better yet Zen 4 3D)
 
andybird123 said:
I'm not in the UK, so there's not much of a 2nd hand scene where I am and my daughters PC has just died, even "old" stuff, if you can get it, is basically original MSRP and not cheap, no where has AMD 7 series in stock so I've got a choice between AMD 5xxx or Intel 12th gen, I will be overclocking... I've been back and forth between getting a 12400F to tide over until 136/700k would be available as it would drop in the same mobo, or just getting a 12600k/12700k. AMD 5700X and 5800X are also available for around the same prices respectively.

which would you get?
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12700F or 13700F.

You can't really overclock the K SKU series that much and it doesn't improve performance that much since Intel has stopped being stingy and giving us just 4 core 8 thread options.

Edit: I see you went for a 12600K.
 
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JollyJamma said:
12700F or 13700F.

You can't really overclock the K SKU series that much and it doesn't improve performance that much since Intel has stopped being stingy and giving us just 4 core 8 thread options.

Edit: I see you went for a 12600K.
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I checked around the 12600k results and stock its 4.5ghz all core, overclocked it can go to 5.0-5.2 depending on cooling and luck
my 9700k is 4.6 stock and does 5.1 all core OC'd so that's around the same level or even slightly better of an OC

there's no F stock around near me any more and although the shop confirmed they have their 13th stock in already, its at full price so the 12600k still worked out the better cost/perf option I think
 
JAMIE_CORTEZ said:
Bios updates will support RL on B660 but the B660 is still dead the same as AM4

No DDR5, PCIE5 just the same. Yea you get 13th gen albeit we don’t know actually how well it will be supported but you don’t get any of the generational upgrades as you like to say.

There’s still a but here. If you go RL you can grab a new mobo and get the generational updates once they mature and hopefully cost goes down because those new mobos and ddr 5 gonna be expensive for awhile.

If the OP is gonna stick to alderlake then that’s not the case as you’d still have to update almost the whole system down the line….. which means AM4 Vs alderlake… I’d personally go AM4 and punch for the x3D
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I actually found out the B660 doesn't support overclocking at the last minute, so have a Z690 board with DDR5 and PCIE5 - the cost of a DDR5 kit was only about £10 more than the DDR4 I would have gone with
I'm probably not going to get a 13th gen anyway for the foreseeable as the cost/performance isn't there I don't think - and I have 2 kids who get my hand me downs, so I tend not to upgrade CPU and just do a new build when one of us slips off the curve of the hardware we have supporting the games we want to play

there aren't any X3D's available here (I'm not in the UK as I said in the OP)
 
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andybird123 said:
I checked around the 12600k results and stock its 4.5ghz all core, overclocked it can go to 5.0-5.2 depending on cooling and luck
my 9700k is 4.6 stock and does 5.1 all core OC'd so that's around the same level or even slightly better of an OC

there's no F stock around near me any more and although the shop confirmed they have their 13th stock in already, its at full price so the 12600k still worked out the better cost/perf option I think
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Fair enough.
 
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