[SOLVED] Best CPU upgrade for my GF

soldier5637

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Hey everyone

So I want to start off by saying i'm fully expecting to get slaughtered by AMD fan boys (I have a 3600X myself, I get it) but I'm leaning towards suggesting my GF put her money towards a 9600K tomorrow as its $70 off and delivers better gaming performance than an AMD counterpart in the same $250 CAD range. She plays tons of overwatch and assassins creed, among others.
 
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Exactly. New games, even old titles, can easily push high thread counts. My old skyrim with mods and enb was pushing 5 threads by itself. Online multi-player AI is killing thread count, reducing even 8 thread cpus to single digit fps.

6 threads is 1 foot in the grave already.

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Can't honestly support a 6 core / 6 thread cpu. Even with that price drop. If you are wanting to stay with Intel, I'd at least be looking at a i5 10400 as it not only has a decent boost, but also HT, putting it at 6/12, on par with the I7 8700
 

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Can't honestly support a 6 core / 6 thread cpu. Even with that price drop. If you are wanting to stay with Intel, I'd at least be looking at a i5 10400 as it not only has a decent boost, but also HT, putting it at 6/12, on par with the I7 8700
Contemplated the 10400, but it gets worse game benches with considerably lower clocks. Extra threads or not, 700/800 MHz helps in games quite a bit. Explains why when on sale they're the same price but $70 more for the older cpu otherwise.
 
I had 9600K and all I can say is, it's a snail. Yes, might be slightly better in certain games, but for overall PC performance, 3600X (for example) is a much better choice! -now and for future.
Don't do that to your GF... she will leave you :)

No, I'm not AMD fan -I'm my wallet fan.
 

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Exactly. New games, even old titles, can easily push high thread counts. My old skyrim with mods and enb was pushing 5 threads by itself. Online multi-player AI is killing thread count, reducing even 8 thread cpus to single digit fps.

6 threads is 1 foot in the grave already.
 
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