Budget CPU, Mb and ram

[mckenzie.hakes1234]

Looking to spend 500 on the three and a cooler to go with it. Id like i7-7600k or no k since I don't oc

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Yeah that's my point. They've been selling 6 and 8 cores on HEDT platforms for a premium price for the past 7 years all the while a dual-core i3 could do just as well as (and sometimes outperform) AMD's (mainstream) flagship 8-core competitor when it came to daily tasks and gaming. Intel has been sandbagging for nearly a decade; and they released Kaby Lake for no good reason except that they had already had it planned as a safety net (sandbag) in case AMD couldn't release Ryzen this year. I don't believe Coffee Lake was a "hurry up we have to do something" thing from Intel. I think it was more of a "okay, now's the time" type of thing.