Well, hello everyone.
I've been running a 2500k for years now, since 2012 I think. Its been running for thousands of hours overclocked and I'm starting to get occasional bluescreens that could only really be caused by either my ram or my CPU and since I switched Ram at a point and it didn't help I figured the CPU is slowly giving in to old age, or the board.
Anyways since I'm running a gtx 1080 I'm really bottlenecked in certain games like Wildlands and GTA5 where my CPU usage is up at 100% and my GPU is chilling at 50%+, and thats at a base clock of 4.6 ghz.
So, time to upgrade I guess.
I mostly use my PC for gaming, as mentioned before, with a gtx 1080. On a 144hz monitor with gsync, so my first thought is intel would be the better way to go since I read that those are better for higher framerates in gaming, especially when using high refresh rate monitors so they are ideally utilized.
I also do some light video editing and encoding here and there, usually 1080p or 1440p, no 4k, so I would very much like to gain the hyperthreaded performance of an i7 rather than an i5. The obvious contenders on this topic would be the Ryzen 1600 and 1700.
From everything I read so far, you don't exactly need a K version with 8th gen intel CPUs since the non-k ones turbo high enough for most users, this true?
If so, my choice would sort of lean towards an i7 8700 (non-k). A ryzen 1600 would have a massive price advantage especially since the boards seem to be cheaper, but if memory serves right, for ryzen you basically need memory running at as high a clockrate as possible and ideally samsung b-die ones which are really expensive. So I'm not sure about ryzen in general.
What is the general consensus for a person doing high refreshrate gaming and video editing, whats the best CPU for me and also which RAM and Board should I go for?
Or should I wait a tad longer for better budget boards for the i7 since I read in a few places that there seem to be boards on their way.
I've been running a 2500k for years now, since 2012 I think. Its been running for thousands of hours overclocked and I'm starting to get occasional bluescreens that could only really be caused by either my ram or my CPU and since I switched Ram at a point and it didn't help I figured the CPU is slowly giving in to old age, or the board.
Anyways since I'm running a gtx 1080 I'm really bottlenecked in certain games like Wildlands and GTA5 where my CPU usage is up at 100% and my GPU is chilling at 50%+, and thats at a base clock of 4.6 ghz.
So, time to upgrade I guess.
I mostly use my PC for gaming, as mentioned before, with a gtx 1080. On a 144hz monitor with gsync, so my first thought is intel would be the better way to go since I read that those are better for higher framerates in gaming, especially when using high refresh rate monitors so they are ideally utilized.
I also do some light video editing and encoding here and there, usually 1080p or 1440p, no 4k, so I would very much like to gain the hyperthreaded performance of an i7 rather than an i5. The obvious contenders on this topic would be the Ryzen 1600 and 1700.
From everything I read so far, you don't exactly need a K version with 8th gen intel CPUs since the non-k ones turbo high enough for most users, this true?
If so, my choice would sort of lean towards an i7 8700 (non-k). A ryzen 1600 would have a massive price advantage especially since the boards seem to be cheaper, but if memory serves right, for ryzen you basically need memory running at as high a clockrate as possible and ideally samsung b-die ones which are really expensive. So I'm not sure about ryzen in general.
What is the general consensus for a person doing high refreshrate gaming and video editing, whats the best CPU for me and also which RAM and Board should I go for?
Or should I wait a tad longer for better budget boards for the i7 since I read in a few places that there seem to be boards on their way.
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