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Which CPU with a 3080 ti

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I'm looking to upgrade (old parts for my daughters PC), I've just purchased a 3080ti, I game at 1440 144hz. I figured now is a good time to go DDR5
I'm swaying towards a 13600k with Z790 or Z690? I believe the AMD equivalent is 7600x? How does that compare?
Obviously cheaper is better, but I'd pay a bit more if it's better?
 
los said:
I'm swaying towards a 13600k with Z790 or Z690? I believe the AMD equivalent is 7600x? How does that compare?
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Based on these results (and gaming only!), toss a coin, but AM5 should have better upgrade potential in the future. If there is a productivity usage (e.g. blender), be aware that the 13600K destroys the 7600X in multi-threading. I'd personally wait until mid-January, because the 7600 non-X & i5-13400 are looking pretty attractive options.

If you wanted to go cheap, then a 5600 non-X can be picked up for very little now and it's a great value CPU, with 32GB DDR4 still a fair bit cheaper than DDR5.
 
Personally I would leave DDR5 to those that want to get the very best CPU benchmark scores with top of the line CPUs.
I did look into it, but settled with re-using the 64GB DDR4 3600MHz that I had from the previous system with an i7-13700K: the objective was to get a "balanced" system within budget.
 
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los said:
That's great, thanks very much! I'll wait until mid Jan then and see what they are like! Shame there's no new year sale stuff to tempt me!
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FYI: the 13th gen non-K CPUs are out now, as is B760, but haven't seen any reviews yet. The 13500 looks interesting, it has the same number of P & E cores as the 13600K, but is a lot cheaper.
 
Yeah that makes sense, but I just figured if I'm going to upgrade everything, I may as well go for the latest up to date stuff with DDR5

dvinell said:
Personally I would leave DDR5 to those that want to get the very best CPU benchmark scores with top of the line CPUs.
I did look into it, but settled with re-using the 64GB DDR4 3600MHz that I had from the previous system with an i7-13700K: the objective was to get a "balanced" system within budget.
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los said:
I'm looking to upgrade (old parts for my daughters PC), I've just purchased a 3080ti, I game at 1440 144hz. I figured now is a good time to go DDR5
I'm swaying towards a 13600k with Z790 or Z690? I believe the AMD equivalent is 7600x? How does that compare?
Obviously cheaper is better, but I'd pay a bit more if it's better?
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If you want to keep the CPU a long time then I'd go 13600k if you plan to upgrade the CPU in a few years go 7600x.
 
Joxeon said:
If you want to keep the CPU a long time then I'd go 13600k if you plan to upgrade the CPU in a few years go 7600x.
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Two ways to look at it, AMD advantage is drop-in CPU upgrades to the same socket.
Or what I keep doing ... Ebaying then replacing the Intel Motherboard and CPU together :cry:
 
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