Decent upgrade from a i5 2400?

[Shadow777]

Hello everyone a d thanks for stopping by to help me, im looking for a decent upgrade from the i5 2400 which ive had for a long time and i truly love but sadly its showing its age, i have a GTX 1060 and want to play Ark with decent framerates so yeah.. I was looking at the i5 8400 or i5 7400, are those a good bang for buck these days? Or is there something better? Is there any modern cpu with great Performance/price ratio i am missing? I would like to keep it possibly below $200, thanks again

 

[WildCard999]

Definitely the i5-8400, it has excellent performance per core which is good for gaming. Just remember that the 8400 does require a Z370 motherboard & DDR4 RAM.

 

[volkgren]

As mentioned above, the i5-8400 is definitely good for the money. The i5-7400 not so much (gets beat by i3-8100 for less money).

 

[captaincharisma]

the 8400 would be a significant upgrade from a 2400. if this was the 7400 we were talking about then i would say not so much

 

[Shadow777]

Is there a signifcant difference between the 7400 and the 8400? What about the ryzen 5 1600

 

[WildCard999]

Is there a signifcant difference between the 7400 and the 8400? What about the ryzen 5 1600

Yes there is.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-8400-vs-Intel-Core-i5-7400/3939vs3886

The 1600 would be a viable option if you don't mind overclocking it to around 3.8-4.0 ghz.

 

[volkgren]

The i5-8400 is a 6-core processor with 4.0GHz turbo boost and the i5-7400 is a 4-core processor with 3.5GHz turbo boost.

The Ryzen 5 1600 is a good processor, but might lag behind the i5-8400 in most gaming scenarios.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Benchmarks I saw a while back it was about 10% behind last generation in single core performance, but that said, they are decent chips.

However, maybe wait a month or so. AMD is supposed to be bringing ryzen + out in April is what I'm hearing, which is a refresh of the current Ryzen series. Supposedly they are supposed to have a little higher clock speeds and maybe a little bump in single core performance. But if you have to have it now, to give you an idea, single core performance on current Ryzen CPUs is roughly equal to haswell. But multithreaded they have an advantage I think if you do a lot of stuff at once.

 

[Shadow777]

It really sucks that you have to buy a z370 mobo tho, im on a tight budget and those mobos cost almost the same as the cpu here..

 

[captaincharisma]

It really sucks that you have to buy a z370 mobo tho, im on a tight budget and those mobos cost almost the same as the cpu here..

yep and there is still no info (any i can find at least) on when they hare going to release their H3xx and B3xx series chipset boards

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Been a while back but I thought I saw something that there may not be any. Something else said March though, so not sure when exactly or if...

 

[WildCard999]

All I keep seeing is Q1 2018 and rumors of boards shipping with those sockets (B360/H370/etc). This is quite frustrating as the lower end Intel units such as the 8100/8400 are great for ppl that want good performance without having to overclock.

 

[jr9]

For strictly gaming the i5-8400 completely invalidates the entire Ryzen lineup. It's better than Ryzen 7 even and costs far less. The core performance is amazing. If you're doing streaming or heavy multitasking then Ryzen 7 would be a better choice though as it has tons of threads.

Comparing GHz and cores isn't helpful when comparing AMD CPUs to Intel CPUs.

Don't get a 7th gen Intel CPU, Z270 is an abandoned platform. Don't lock yourself into it.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

It's definitely going to get more interesting when Ryzen 2 hits next year. This next release I think is just a refresh of last year. But I've got a Ryzen 1600 myself and pretty happy with it. One thing Ryzen has though if intel doesn't hurry up is availability of cheap boards.

 

[mdd1963]

the whole 'keeping it under $200' is somewhat out the window once we throw in new mainboard and DDR4 costs, correct?

(maybe you can find someone trading in/selling off cheaply their 2600K)

https://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-2600K-Quad-Core-Processor-Cache/dp/B004FA8NOQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520462528&sr=8-1&keywords=i7-2600k

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

It the op does not mind staying on that platform another year or 2 and overclocks, that isn't a bad option.

Single core performance would stay about the same, but on the other hand more games are wanting more threads, battlefield 1 as an example.

 

[valeman2012]

the 8400 would be a significant upgrade from a 2400. if this was the 7400 we were talking about then i would say not so much

I guess he can wait for Intel i5 8600 o Intel i5 8500 when they release the Budget Motherboards commie near..