Platinum Micro via Rakuten has
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 8-Core 3GHz Desktop Processor (YD1700BBAEBOX) for $267.99 - $48 coupon code
PLM48 =
$219.99.
Shipping is free. Thanks Discombobulated
Note, you will also receive
2,190 ($21.90) worth of Rakuten Points redeemable towards a future purchase [
details].
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Noob question, would you consider this or the i5 8600K?
It just depends on what you want to do. If you want to game, go for the i5 due to more per core performance (although this processor is good at gaming also, but many games haven't been optimized for using that many cores). If you are doing video, imaging, or lots of rendering, this one is good. I do my coding homework with this processor along with my video editing and it burns through the tasks easily.
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Two things to consider: I'd check recent benchmarks to see how the Intel was affected by the meltdown/spectre fix. I have an i7 that was severely hampered by their fix - runs much slower and hotter, coincidentally my chrome keeps crashing recently (no idea if that's related). Second, graphics cards are still really overpriced due to crypto demand/perpetual sell-outs if you think you're going to wait before building your PC I'd wait on buying a processor too. These will keep getting cheaper.
Two things to consider: I'd check recent benchmarks to see how the Intel was affected by the meltdown/spectre fix. I have an i7 that was severely hampered by their fix - runs much slower and hotter, coincidentally my chrome keeps crashing recently (no idea if that's related). Second, graphics cards are still really overpriced due to crypto demand/perpetual sell-outs if you think you're going to wait before building your PC I'd wait on buying a processor too. These will keep getting cheaper.
Thanks! The i5 is more expensive when this deal is applied so I think I'll go this way and go from there! Thanks guys!
Just want to add you can buy a b360 motherboard for around 70$ and overclock this CPU to atleast 3.8 ghz meanwhile you would need a z370 board with the 8600k to overclock you could go for the newly released cheaper boards but wont br able to overclock, so this is easily the better but price to performance. Also the 8600k doesnt come with cooler.
Thanks!