OK.....I thought I'd do something nice for my brother, and do a new system build for his birthday, in August....so I have time to plan and source components.
I checked with him, and he currently prefers Intel μPs to AMD....I'm not certain as to whether or not he plans on gaming, but will plan on at least some light gaming for the system--nothing hard-core, though.
I'm looking at MSI for the MB (Z370 Krait Gaming), because he isn't really into the bits and bobs of hardware, and I'll be fielding any hardware issues he has in the future, so dealing with an MSI MB will make things easier in that event.
μP selection is a sticking point for me. He is currently running an i5, so bumping him up to an i7 ori9 is the goal, but the price-point on the i9s that I've seen are ridiculous--unless I'm missing something--so i7 is probably the target μP for this build.
I can go with anything from the i7-8086K to the i7-9700K μP in the CoffeeLake architecture which gives me a price point from $545.99 for the 8086K to $437.60 for the 9700K, on NewEgg.
This is counter-intuitive to my expectations, given what I would otherwise expect from part Intel numbering in the past. Is this a matter of sales volume, or is there something more compelling about the 8086K unit?
I do not know what specific i5 he's using now, but he got it used from CraigsList a while back, for @25.00, so I don't think that it's anything to write home about, comparatively-speaking, and that, bumping him up to an i7 will be an overall improvement for him.
What thoughts do those who use Intel consistently have about this and, are there any sources of i9's that have pricing that is more favorable to this project?
I checked with him, and he currently prefers Intel μPs to AMD....I'm not certain as to whether or not he plans on gaming, but will plan on at least some light gaming for the system--nothing hard-core, though.
I'm looking at MSI for the MB (Z370 Krait Gaming), because he isn't really into the bits and bobs of hardware, and I'll be fielding any hardware issues he has in the future, so dealing with an MSI MB will make things easier in that event.
μP selection is a sticking point for me. He is currently running an i5, so bumping him up to an i7 ori9 is the goal, but the price-point on the i9s that I've seen are ridiculous--unless I'm missing something--so i7 is probably the target μP for this build.
I can go with anything from the i7-8086K to the i7-9700K μP in the CoffeeLake architecture which gives me a price point from $545.99 for the 8086K to $437.60 for the 9700K, on NewEgg.
This is counter-intuitive to my expectations, given what I would otherwise expect from part Intel numbering in the past. Is this a matter of sales volume, or is there something more compelling about the 8086K unit?
I do not know what specific i5 he's using now, but he got it used from CraigsList a while back, for @25.00, so I don't think that it's anything to write home about, comparatively-speaking, and that, bumping him up to an i7 will be an overall improvement for him.
What thoughts do those who use Intel consistently have about this and, are there any sources of i9's that have pricing that is more favorable to this project?