Ryzen 1600 or i7 7700k?

[christoffe93]

Hi guys i'm supposed to be completely re building my pc within next few days, i had everything planned and then i noticed Intel have a much bigger choice of motherboard at a cheaper price. Would i be better off going with a not so good board with Intel £120-£135 and save the extra to go towards the i7 or buy the ryzen 1600 and go with the ax360 gaming 5 motherboard which i can get for £180? As long as a i can find a reasonably price Intel board with killer Ethernet, decent sound, good power phase for ocing and possibly RGB support i'll be happy with that.

 

[marko55]

This has been asked a TON of times over the last several weeks. You can just search the CPU forum for "ryzen" and get a ton of info.

 

[madmatt30]

Intel cheaper motherboards ??
No mate seriously untrue.

The fatality b350 is a great board , fine for overclocking & has rgb support .

It's a touch over £100

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asrock-ab350-gaming-k4-amd-b350-s-am4-ddr4-sata3-m2-(pcie-sata)-realtek-lan-usb-30-aplusc-atx

 

[christoffe93]

It becomes a bit confusing when you add everything up such as would the GPU i'm going to use put enough stress on either CPU to notice the benefits between the two. Would the lower cost intel board be a sacrifice over the Ax360 in terms of features or just better value for money. I don't know the answer to any of thes questions thats why i'm on here, i have looked through but haven't found questions similar to mine.

 

[madmatt30]

You seem confused ?

Firstly there's no such thing as an x360 board , its an x370, secondly you don't need an x370 board to overclock a ryzen.
A good quality b350 board is absolutely fine.

What monitor & GPU are you going to be using ??

Have you not considered dropping an i7 into your current build ??

 

[christoffe93]

You seem confused ?

Firstly there's no such thing as an x360 board , its an x370, secondly you don't need an x370 board to overclock a ryzen.
A good quality b350 board is absolutely fine.

What monitor & GPU are you going to be using ??

Have you not considered dropping an i7 into your current build ??

I'm going to be using a xfx RX580 GPU on a 27 inch 144hz monitor and the system I've got now is getting a bit dated so i want to have everything fresh n new.

 

[madmatt30]

144htz is really Intel i7 k series territory to be honest.

However if you're running a 580 then realistically you'll be topping out at 100-120fps & ryzen is generally capable of the same.

So id say a ryzen 1600 & the board I mentioned would save you roughly £100 (maybe more) over an i7k, a z 270 board & a decent cooler.

That's money you can plough into something else instead (you'll maybe squeeze a 1070 into the budget instead of the 580 then).

Nor many people would take an i7+580 over a ryzen 1600+1070 I'm fairly certain.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£199.98 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock - Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£102.71 @ More Computers)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£134.84 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Mini Video Card (£346.68 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £784.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-05 17:10 BST+0100


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£299.94 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£39.35 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-Z270-Gaming K3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£122.40 @ Aria PC)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£134.84 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon RX 580 8GB Gaming 8G Video Card (£220.96 @ Novatech)
Total: £817.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-05 17:12 BST+0100

 

[christoffe93]

144htz is really Intel i7 k series territory to be honest.

However if you're running a 580 then realistically you'll be topping out at 100-120fps & ryzen is generally capable of the same.

So id say a ryzen 1600 & the board I mentioned would save you roughly £100 (maybe more) over an i7k, a z 270 board & a decent cooler.

That's money you can plough into something else instead (you'll maybe squeeze a 1070 into the budget instead of the 580 then).

Nor many people would take an i7+580 over a ryzen 1600+1070 I'm fairly certain.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£199.98 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock - Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£102.71 @ More Computers)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£134.84 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Mini Video Card (£346.68 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £784.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-05 17:10 BST+0100


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£299.94 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£39.35 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-Z270-Gaming K3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£122.40 @ Aria PC)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£134.84 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: Gigabyte - Radeon RX 580 8GB Gaming 8G Video Card (£220.96 @ Novatech)
Total: £817.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-05 17:12 BST+0100

Ive decided i will go with the Lower end board, ryzen 1600 and a better GPU. I will to be streaming and playing afk games while i watch stuff on kodi to pass the time so maybe the extra threads and cores will have an advantage. I was looking at the i5 to begin with until i read a comment on a youtube video about i5's 4 true cores becoming close to obsolete as there's no threads. Well thanks for your time and help i appreciate it.

 

[christoffe93]

I know this question was solved but i've found a different deal and now i can have the i7 and a decent board for around the same price as the 1600/ax370 bundle. Overclocker have 9% of their Strix Z270F motherboard - i7-7700K CPU Bundle which comes to £461 and on top of that asus areoffering £80 cash back when you purchase a intel cpu and asus motherboard bundle so that brings it down to £381. If i got with the aorus ax 370 and ryzen 5 1600 its going to cost £350 so now i don't know which one to choose.