Hi All,
I’m currently running Ryzen 7 5700X / ASRock X470 Taichi / EVGA RTX2070 XC Ultra Gaming / 32GB DDR4.
I have no pressing need to upgrade from this, but I'm keen to get a MB which supports PCIe 5.0 M.2 to support fast disk performance & transfers so looking at new CPU/MB/RAM options.
My Use case is fairly broad:
Frequent casual gaming
Usually single player, like to be able to play most games on at least medium quality settings. Dont care about every last FPS etc.
Music production
Bitwig Studio DAW, high number of VST plugins / effects, some sample based instruments.
Video editing
Working with 4K footage from GoPro, usually rendering out to 1080p but sometimes 4K.
Photo editing
Photoshop
General
Everyday use, web browsing, documents, printing etc
I’ve been considering the following CPU’s (values taken from www.cpubenchmark.net)
Ryzen 7 9700X 65W TDP / (4,507 / 37,698) / approx. 338 GBP incl. delivery
Ryzen 9 7900X 170W TDP / (4,260 / 51,787) / approx. 310 GBP incl. delivery
i9-12900KF 241W TDP / (4,163 / 41,135) / approx. 259 GBP incl. delivery
i5-13600KF 125W TDP / (4,133 / 37,823) / approx. 230 GBP incl. delivery
i7-13700KF 125W TDP / (4,348 / 46,208) / approx. 290 GBP incl. delivery
i5-14600KF 125W TDP / (4,292 / 39,363) / approx. 264 GBP incl. delivery
i7-14700K 125W TDP / (4,480 / 53,248) / approx. 340 GBP incl. delivery (K is cheaper than KF in this case)
When looking at CPU choices, should I be focusing on a chip with better single core performance or better multicore performance for my use case?
Then obviously there’s the question if I should be considering the last four on the list at all at the moment due to the instability issues. I’m thinking probably not very wise atm until the dust settles.
I currently have BeQuiet Silent Base 601 case which is designed as quiet case and airflow probably isn’t the best, with Thermalright Peerless Assasin 120 CPU cooler. Not sure if this cooling configuartion would be sufficient or not to run the higher TDP options or whether I’d need an AIO (prefer to avoid if possible).
Please help me decide which of the CPU’s above would be the best fit for me.
Thanks,
pt195
P.S An additional question that I've thought of is, if I went the Ryzen route, should I be considering the X3D variants too as I heard they improve single thread performance and have larger cache and have lots of good benchmarks in games, but not sure if they will also be an advantage for Music / Video / Photo.
I’m currently running Ryzen 7 5700X / ASRock X470 Taichi / EVGA RTX2070 XC Ultra Gaming / 32GB DDR4.
I have no pressing need to upgrade from this, but I'm keen to get a MB which supports PCIe 5.0 M.2 to support fast disk performance & transfers so looking at new CPU/MB/RAM options.
My Use case is fairly broad:
Frequent casual gaming
Usually single player, like to be able to play most games on at least medium quality settings. Dont care about every last FPS etc.
Music production
Bitwig Studio DAW, high number of VST plugins / effects, some sample based instruments.
Video editing
Working with 4K footage from GoPro, usually rendering out to 1080p but sometimes 4K.
Photo editing
Photoshop
General
Everyday use, web browsing, documents, printing etc
I’ve been considering the following CPU’s (values taken from www.cpubenchmark.net)
Ryzen 7 9700X 65W TDP / (4,507 / 37,698) / approx. 338 GBP incl. delivery
Ryzen 9 7900X 170W TDP / (4,260 / 51,787) / approx. 310 GBP incl. delivery
i9-12900KF 241W TDP / (4,163 / 41,135) / approx. 259 GBP incl. delivery
i5-13600KF 125W TDP / (4,133 / 37,823) / approx. 230 GBP incl. delivery
i7-13700KF 125W TDP / (4,348 / 46,208) / approx. 290 GBP incl. delivery
i5-14600KF 125W TDP / (4,292 / 39,363) / approx. 264 GBP incl. delivery
i7-14700K 125W TDP / (4,480 / 53,248) / approx. 340 GBP incl. delivery (K is cheaper than KF in this case)
When looking at CPU choices, should I be focusing on a chip with better single core performance or better multicore performance for my use case?
Then obviously there’s the question if I should be considering the last four on the list at all at the moment due to the instability issues. I’m thinking probably not very wise atm until the dust settles.
I currently have BeQuiet Silent Base 601 case which is designed as quiet case and airflow probably isn’t the best, with Thermalright Peerless Assasin 120 CPU cooler. Not sure if this cooling configuartion would be sufficient or not to run the higher TDP options or whether I’d need an AIO (prefer to avoid if possible).
Please help me decide which of the CPU’s above would be the best fit for me.
Thanks,
pt195
P.S An additional question that I've thought of is, if I went the Ryzen route, should I be considering the X3D variants too as I heard they improve single thread performance and have larger cache and have lots of good benchmarks in games, but not sure if they will also be an advantage for Music / Video / Photo.
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