i5 8400+rx sapphire 580/odd combo???

[Rudigarcia222]

hi guys,(and sorry for english)

building a non oc 1080 gaming pc and ive already bought an rx 580 8 gb nitro,

i was gonna buy a ryzen 2600 but today for some reason i see again some i5 prices drop in my country,i ve read all these reviews i konw they are both great and really i dont really care aboutintel or amd ,ill buy the best value for money cpu+mobo on black friday

so my question is if i go intel can i use my gpu with a i58400??i ask this because i read everywhere that rx 580 combos great with ryzen and i58400 with gtx 1060

 

[ChumP]

There's no such thing as an odd combination... you're not forced to go amd with amd or intel with nvidia. The CPUs will perform the same with either AMD or NVidia as a GPU.

You'll get better framerates with the i5-8400, so if the main purpose of your build is gaming, then you should go with it.
The ryzen 5 2600 will do better in productivity tasks, but will lack a bit behind intel in games.

Depending on the deals you can go either way... it really depends on what you're using the PC for.