Is This a Good Deal?

Andreas Mellis

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I can get a used i7 2700K along with an Asus P8Z68 and 16 Gigs of Vengeance RAM for 270€ (~316$), is it worth it? If not then whats the ideal price for that bundle?
 
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not sure what your usage is or how the i7 2700k compares, but to give you pricing for modern parts as a comparison, a ryzen 5 or skylake i5 with basic mobo's and 16gb of ddr4 ram woudl run you around 380 (180-190 cpu, 70-80 mobo, 115 ram)

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not sure what your usage is or how the i7 2700k compares, but to give you pricing for modern parts as a comparison, a ryzen 5 or skylake i5 with basic mobo's and 16gb of ddr4 ram woudl run you around 380 (180-190 cpu, 70-80 mobo, 115 ram)
 
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Currently im running a Quad Core Q9450 on an Asus P5Q Deluxe with a 650Ti and 8 Gigs of DDR2, so the hardware i mentioned before is definitely an improvement, im wondering though if getting an r5 with just 8 GB of RAM will give me better performance for some dollars more.
 

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sorry for the delayed response. I think i would personally get the newer system. 8gb would put you at about the same price point as the 2700k build. I just cant really recommend buying a system 6 years old. i think the newer system would give you a better backbone to work with for the next few years.

you can research it too but i THOUGHT i read that the socket will be the same for the next few generations of AMD cpu's so you should be able to upgrade the CPU again in a few years if you wanted withouth replacing the mobo
 

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My thoughts exactly, i went with the newer system.