i5 7400 Vs i5 6500 (or wait for Ryzen)

[Richunix]

Looking to build mid range gaming pc for light multi tasking. Was going to buy an i5 6500 or 7500 but noticed the i5 7400 seems to have similar specs to the i5 6500.

Is it worth getting the i5 7400 as its currently £169 in UK vs £185 for i5 6500?

Or should I wait for the elephant in the room in the form of a quad core ryzen chips?

Thanks

 

[velocityg4]

Personally I would at least wait for benchmarks. To actually see how an 8 Core Ryzen stands up against an 8 Core Intel in single threaded and multi-threaded tasks.

Potentially, for the price of the i5-7400. You could by a 4 Core, hyperthreaded, and unlocked Ryzen. Giving you i7-6700k/7700K performance.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

only the ryzen 5 comes at the price point of 7400, thats in may or june release, which is a long time wait. but the ryzen 7 should indicate the performance of zen cpu n will tell if its worth the wait.

 

[kawininjazx]

Stick with the i5, proven performance, stability, and reliability

 

[gdmaclew]

Wait for the benchmarks. It's your money. Why pay more for the same performance if you don't have to?

 

[InvalidError]

I'd at least wait for benchmarks too. With Ryzen 3/5/7, you will be able to get approximately twice the bang per buck as what you get from Intel's current CPU prices.

 

[Richunix]

Thanks for all the replies. Still waiting to see how the top RYZEN chips perform.

Will be interesting, although it could be a while to build a system with them.

If Intel drop the i5 prices to around £120 it could make things very interesting. Although I don't think they will.

Hopefully RYZEN is the shake up we need.

 

[RobCrezz]

Hold off for ryzen benchmarks IMO.