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What to do with with intel prices?

3lackMamba

3lackMamba

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Hi guys

I’ve been saving for a while now and was ready to upgrade literally this week, I had everything budgeted but as my luck would have it, 8700K prices have sky-rocketed in the past week as you all know.

Now I’m left in a pickle of a situation and I don’t know what to do. I don’t fancy waiting until next year for prices to become normal again and I’m also 90% sure I do not want to go AMD. So my choices are these.. I think.

1. 8600K - I’m primarily gaming so I think this would be a viable option with a nice OC?

2. Buy from the states, but what would the conversion and rates be like?

3. Literally my last option, but go ryzen? Limit of around £300

What’s your opinions guys? Or if you have any other suggestions, fire away :)

Thanks
 
Go Ryzen, it's a solid and very good platform and if I remember right you can drop any cpu they launch up to 2020 and it will work in current boards. Intels current prices are just disgraceful and I fear they are only going to get worse with the launch of the 9000 series supposedly this month. I wouldn't even consider Intel right now. What I find incredible is that you can get one of AMD's newest and best cpu's, a very good motherboard, 8Gb of memory, a 240Gb SSD and a cooler for £110 less than a 8700k by itself!!

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £330.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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if you have a decent rig now wait till christmas for the new intel stuff. wouldnt buy a rig now when 1-2 months you can have a better pc.

if its just mainly for gaming go intel. its been funny listening to one person off here in particular saying how good ryzen is then he swapped to a 8076 and even admits now how its so much better than the previous ryzen.

ryzen can game well. just intel do it better.
 
Intel pricing now is a disgrace. My next upgrade is an AMD platform. Fed up with Intel milking it. Value for money is Ryzen. Gaming with one is barely noticeable between Intel and Ryzen yet your wallet certainly notices it.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
if you have a decent rig now wait till christmas for the new intel stuff. wouldnt buy a rig now when 1-2 months you can have a better pc.

if its just mainly for gaming go intel. its been funny listening to one person off here in particular saying how good ryzen is then he swapped to a 8076 and even admits now how its so much better than the previous ryzen.

ryzen can game well. just intel do it better.
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I’m not running the best of rigs, 4670K with a 770.. can’t even run bf1 comfortably on low..

All these ryzen suggestions but if I’m using it for gaming primarily wouldn’t an 8600K be the better choice? Or should I factor that I’m running two monitors, one 1440p and one 1080? Plus I usually have chrome (YouTube, twitch) open in the bg and from time to time two games running at once.

I completely appreciate that intels prices are a disgrace, but for what I will be using it for and for future proofing.. eugghhhh
 
3lackMamba said:
I’m not running the best of rigs, 4670K with a 770.. can’t even run bf1 comfortably on low..

All these ryzen suggestions but if I’m using it for gaming primarily wouldn’t an 8600K be the better choice? Or should I factor that I’m running two monitors, one 1440p and one 1080? Plus I usually have chrome (YouTube, twitch) open in the bg and from time to time two games running at once.

I completely appreciate that intels prices are a disgrace, but for what I will be using it for and for future proofing.. eugghhhh
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Both cpu and gpu need upgrading for BF1. Upgrading to a faster cpu will do half the job. Not worth it. Get a 1060 6 GB or an equivalent AMD like the RX 580.
 
Orange Nexus said:
Wait for the 2070 or something. I saw the 8600K maxing out in BF1. If you can wait for the new intel cpus, then the 8700K might go down in price. What's a few more weeks?
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Well if the prices right now are anything to go by then i won’t be purchasing any of intel’s 9th gen.. And reports that I’m reading seem to think this price spike including the 8700K will easily lead into 2019..

I’m not the sort of person that needs 200 fps on ultra High settings @ 4K, but 60fps on most current games on high settings @ 1440p is the goal.
 
3lackMamba said:
Well if the prices right now are anything to go by then i won’t be purchasing any of intel’s 9th gen.. And reports that I’m reading seem to think this price spike including the 8700K will easily lead into 2019..

I’m not the sort of person that needs 200 fps on ultra High settings @ 4K, but 60fps on most current games on high settings @ 1440p is the goal.
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Remember as you head up resolutions, the CPU becomes less important, and its the GPU that starts to be the bottleneck... with that said if you are using 2 screens and 2 games at once, i'd think you will notice a lot of dips in performance on anything less than 6 cores now.

I upgraded from a 4770k to a Ryzen 1700 so basically double the core count, while my single threaded IPC only improved slightly, my PC just laughs at me if i have my usual Chrome with 20 tabs open, Winamp, OC tools, Qnap Nas Software backing up etc in the background, The extra cores and threads means you can do half a dozen things at once and still game without any noticable impact on the games performance, something my 4770k would choke at.

If i was you right now, i'd go for a Ryzen setup like what was linked above for £330, then next year when 7nm comes just swap the CPU out for that badboy and enjoy :)

Or you could buy into another Dead End Intel platform lol
 
Wait a month, see what the 9000 series prices and availability is, laugh hysterically at Intel taking the michael with it then go for a Ryzen system with a beefy X470 motherboard, and then drop in a Ryzen 3000 next year and still spend about the same as Intel want you to.
 
The best bang for buck would be dropping in an i7 on your current mobo and overclocking with a new gpu until next series of Intel prices are more sensible or ryzen 2. A clocked haswell at 4.5 will be as good as ryzen for gaming. The upgrade is cheap once you factor in selling your i5.
 
Drollic said:
The best bang for buck would be dropping in an i7 on your current mobo and overclocking with a new gpu until next series of Intel prices are more sensible or ryzen 2. A clocked haswell at 4.5 will be as good as ryzen for gaming. The upgrade is cheap once you factor in selling your i5.
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Agreed. You can get a used i7 4790k for around £100. Overclocked to 4.6-4.8 GHz, it should last you well past the next round or two of CPUs.
 
2nd hand 4790K’s still going for around £200 plus a decent mobo and chip for next upgrade will be about £500 at the very least.. also my current mobo isn’t mine, it’s a friends who needs it back within the next couple of months.. so there’s more £ I would need to spend.. plus the risk of buying a second hand chip from the bay.. lol

Mr Krugga said:
Agreed. You can get a used i7 4790k for around £100. Overclocked to 4.6-4.8 GHz, it should last you well past the next round or two of CPUs.
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Where on earth did you see one for £100?
 
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