- Aug 10, 2013
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I'm about to upgrade from my i5-4570 Haswell system soon, and I'm having a hard time picking between the two. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
In my country, the price difference between the 9600k and 8700 is around $20-30. I'm basically left to choose between the higher clocks of the unlocked 9th gen i5 (even more when OC is factored in), and the hyperthreading of the locked 8th gen i7.
I do both gaming and productivity. I have a 1070 ti, and play games on a 1080p/60hz monitor. For productivity, I mostly use photoshop, indesign, and illustrator, then a bit of premier and after effects on the side. If I'm to split it, I'd say I do 70% gaming, 30% productivity.
Both chips offer the best of both worlds. But I'm leaning towards the 9600k just because it's "newer," and seems to be a better fit to my Z390 board. But the i7 is also tempting because of it's hyperthreading and seems to be more future-proof in spite of it being a previous gen chip.
I really don't overclock. But I'm willing to learn and squeeze every last bit of performance from a 9600k if needed. It took 5 years for my current Haswell i5-4570 to be outperformed by an 8th gen i3-8100. Of course, no one really knows how CPU tech will improve in the next few years. But I don't want another case where the i7-7700k got matched by an 8th gen i5-8400 (at stock) in just a single generation.
For this one, I'm looking at the same length of service, and maybe a year or two more.
In my country, the price difference between the 9600k and 8700 is around $20-30. I'm basically left to choose between the higher clocks of the unlocked 9th gen i5 (even more when OC is factored in), and the hyperthreading of the locked 8th gen i7.
I do both gaming and productivity. I have a 1070 ti, and play games on a 1080p/60hz monitor. For productivity, I mostly use photoshop, indesign, and illustrator, then a bit of premier and after effects on the side. If I'm to split it, I'd say I do 70% gaming, 30% productivity.
Both chips offer the best of both worlds. But I'm leaning towards the 9600k just because it's "newer," and seems to be a better fit to my Z390 board. But the i7 is also tempting because of it's hyperthreading and seems to be more future-proof in spite of it being a previous gen chip.
I really don't overclock. But I'm willing to learn and squeeze every last bit of performance from a 9600k if needed. It took 5 years for my current Haswell i5-4570 to be outperformed by an 8th gen i3-8100. Of course, no one really knows how CPU tech will improve in the next few years. But I don't want another case where the i7-7700k got matched by an 8th gen i5-8400 (at stock) in just a single generation.
For this one, I'm looking at the same length of service, and maybe a year or two more.
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