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you have the wrong price on the intel i5 7500 $309.98 on Amazon its actually $198.03 on amazon and $204 on newegg would that make a difference on where you placed it ??
 
Typo here - swap prices:
The $129 Ryzen 3 1300X slots into the pricing gap between Intel's $147 Core i3-7100 and $117 i3-7300
 
Where are Ryzen 3 1200 and Ryzen 7 1700? Maybe include Pentium G4600 as well.

Also, ALDAIA is right about those last four charts. They should read "bottom right corner is best" if I'm reading the charts correctly.

Price on the vertical axis and frames per second on the horizontal axis(cpu with lower price and higher frames is better).
 
threadripper 1950x , it looks like the stuff right out of command and conquer 3 tiberium wars . that game inspired many specially the staff at asus . i have a wireless card that looks like the disruptor from that game !
 
I would recommend a AMD CPU for performance per dollar. Intels are good in all but really expensive. The new RYZEN CPUs are really good at doing quite abit. They are some tough competitors for Intels lineup
 
@PaulyAlcorn It's great to see you include cost factors for third-party coolers (for CPUs without factory coolers) and overclocking mobo premiums -- very important factors for the overall price/performance result, especially when some comparators only differ by $10-20! Kudos!!
 
@PaulyAlcorn It's great to see you include cost factors for third-party coolers (with CPUs that don't include a factory cooler) and overclocking mobo premiums -- very important factors for the price/performance comparison, especially when some of the deltas only differ by $10-20! Kudos!!
 
R3 1200: Definitely! With overclocking it's about as good as the 1300X, but at a lower price.
R7 1700: A bit more questionable. For its price it's not that good for gaming, which is what this list is supposed to reflect. It's a better general use CPU than Core i7 though...
G4600 is definitely a valid option when it perform better and cost less than the G4560.

[Regarding R5 1600X]If you're overclocking, the 1600X also offers slightly higher processor and memory frequencies than its value-minded 1600 counterpart.
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Any proof of this? What I've seen the overclocking results are more a function of silicon lottery, cooling, motherboard and memory used.
I'm yet to see an overclocking comparison between ten (randomly selected) 1600 vs ten 1600X mounted on the same motherboard with same cooling and memory.
 
Actually the I5 8400 is a awesome deal for gaming because of having 6 full cores and can run on a more inexpensive motherboard. A lot of charts were showing it out perform an I7 7700K at stock and sometime even an overclocked I7 7700K if a game was more core dependent. it would be the best pick for gamer that want to save money, wattage and don't want to overclock.
 
I'm confused about 2 things.
1) This article was updated today, but the comments both here and in the forums haven't been archived.

2) But more importantly, I really just don't *get* this article.

Your Best Monitors article is broken down into type (G-sync, Free-sync, no-sync 60Hz, no-sync hi refresh). Now that I have a GTX 1070, I know which page I want to look at and I can compare and contrast features and price; especially monitor size and resolution.

Your Best GPUs article gives direction based upon your monitor requirements (FHD, VR, QHD, UHD). It allowed me to feel informed about my purchase of a 1070. I have an HD monitor that I hope to upgrade to 1440 soon. And I hope to get into VR in the next year. Also, I'm about 3 years behind on games, so it will take me a while for my 1070 to get old. I feel very well informed about that decision.

But your CPU article? There are "Best Pick(s)" and "Runner(s) Up" at wildly different price points ("Bests" at $87, $160, $310, $227 and $319), but no breakdown of what the price points mean or what the target usage is. Where is the mapping between tier of CPU and target usage? What I see is a selection of prices with no context for the choice.

Example: For what reason am I choosing between a Ryzen 5 1600x and Core i5-7600K? Is it pure gaming at HD with no streaming? Is it gaming at QHD? Is it gaming while watching Netflix on my second monitor? I just don't know.

Again, I understand easily how your GPU, Monitor, and even RAM articles work. But I'm not getting a good sense from this CPU article and it annoys me.
 


Sorry about that, some of the prices were linked incorrectly to bundled items, so there isn't a large pricing gap. They've been fixed.
 
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