[SOLVED] 3700x or 9700k

[Gennaios]

so in my country they have the exactly same price
who would you consider i should buy?i fear the lack of ht on the 9700k..but i find him more future proof since it can be oced way higher!
any ideas?thnx

 

[jostegogar]

what memory and cooler do u have?

 

[-Fran-]

Just thinking long term, the extra threads of the Ry3700X and its capability to OC itself with decent cooling, makes it a preferable choice over the 9700K in my opinion.

If you want to do other things than gaming in the PC, then the Ry3700X is a great choice. Make sure you get, at least, 2933Mhz RAM (already have seen this is the minimum speed you want to use with Ry3K) and maybe 16GB of it.

Also, you don't need a crazy expensive motherboard to use it! You can buy a B450 with good VRMs and still have the same "high end" experience with the CPU as the X470/X570 chipsets. You will only forgo PCIe 4.0. If you're not that price conscious, then a X570 motherboard would be ideal.

Cheers!

 

[feelinfroggy777]

The 3700x makes the 9700k a bad buy. The 9700k has a very slight edge in gaming, but nothing that will be noticed in the real world. If you want future proofing, go with the 3700x, it is not even close.