Processor and motherboard???

[R3dAlert93]

Looking to upgrade my i7 8700k and ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME Z390-A (LGA1151) motherboard since its going out of date. Whats the best processor to go with??? Looking to spend around under £500.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Going to a 9700K or 9900K isn't going to make much difference.

8700K, 9700K, 9900K all perform pretty much the same in gaming. If really need an upgrade, then look at moving towards a 12th gen i7 K model cpu with a Z490 motherboard, one that supports DDR4.

Or upgrade to better cpu cooler and then OC your current CPU.

[rezo]

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Going to a 9700K or 9900K isn't going to make much difference.

8700K, 9700K, 9900K all perform pretty much the same in gaming. If really need an upgrade, then look at moving towards a 12th gen i7 K model cpu with a Z490 motherboard, one that supports DDR4.

Or upgrade to better cpu cooler and then OC your current CPU.

I agree with this,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baBN5fuYLGY&ab_channel=Jarrod%27sTech

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

引用自 Bring3rOfPain495：

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Z370 and Z390 supports all models of both 8th and 9th gen Intel CPU

Intel CPUs ending in F don't have a GPU

I own an rtx 3080 that's the reason why i wanna upgrade so i can get the use out of my rtx 3080 won't bottleneck my current cpu (i7 8700k).

Honestly you are wasting your money with this upgrade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s35qfhHMhfQ

Notice how at no point does the 8700K hit 100% use with RTX 3080 during this benchmark.

[r.linder]

If you're going to upgrade your CPU, you may as well just go with 12th gen and get an i5-12600K. Anything older and you're just wasting money because the 8700K is still good and LGA1200 won't be around for too much longer before it gets inflated retail pricing, as the locked 12th gen chips are proving to be quite formidable; the i3-12100 is about as fast as a stock 9900K while the i5-12400 closes in on the 10900K.

If DDR5 pricing improves, it could be worth opting for that since it might mean something later when gaming can actually benefit from the quad channel memory support. Each DDR5 DIMM is dual channel, so 2 or 4 sticks gives quad channel, that extra bandwidth will mean something in a few years.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

One reason my 4790K kept up so well and for so long against other CPUs too is because it is easy to OC it with even what was at the time, maybe a $150 Mobo. You didn't need a $200+ mobo to do it properly. I've had no troubles running the 4790K @ around 4.8-5.0 Ghz 24/7 since the year it released. However I do have that config within an ITX case and that doesn't allow me to use beefy air coolers. So I've always used AIO Liquid Cooler with it. I've only had to change that AIO out once since I built the 4790K system, which again was back when that CPU was new-to-market (sorry I forget the release date/year off-hand). Around 2014 or so I think it was.

So unless you have a crappy mobo, you should be able to breath more life into your current 8700K by just OC'ing it as far as the CPU and/or Mobo will allow you to. You can lock in your RAM settings with XMP profile. Also what helps is manually reducing the CPU VCore Voltage as much as you can. But you're going to need good cooling on both your CPU and within your Case at the very least in order to make that happen.

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I would go with the amd ryzen 5950x it has the best bang for your money.

[r.linder]

引用自 Snakefist：

I would go with the amd ryzen 5950x it has the best bang for your money.

There's no reason for 99% of people to need to spend more on a 16 core processor for any reason when 8 is acceptable and 12 is excessive. You're not getting more performance out of Ryzen 9, just more cores. For the majority, there's no reason to go for more than the 5800X, and even then, you get better value out of the i5-12600K because it has the extra cores and higher performance for a competitive price. You get more bang with Intel across the board right now, anyone that says otherwise is merely following the new AMD mindshare since everyone's been super high on Ryzen for the last year.

The i9-12900K is actually better value than the Ryzen 9 5950X regardless because it performs better, costs less by itself, supports DDR5 quad channel memory, isn't on a swiftly dying socket, supports PCI-e 5.0 instead of 4.0 (which could become useful if rumors regarding RTX40 are true), and Intel's firmware is far better developed and less prone to issues compared to AMD's firmware. This coming from someone who was using Ryzen for almost 4 years since it originally launched. AMD is still far off from actually beating Intel.

[N0REGARD4LIFE]

He's coming from an 8700k and the advice is to get a 9700K? That's hardly a worthy upgrade. 10th gen would be a little better than a 9700k or 9900k though, but not drastically. I'd keep the 8700k and try to go 12th gen later.

[Monk]

If you have 500 bucks I'd look at a 10850k and a budget or second hand z490 mobo, heck look second hand and you can bump that to a 10900k with change, beats the 9900k handily and the extra cores let it keep up with the 12th series far better than the 9900k.

At this price point, ignore AMD they aren't competitive for the price any more lol.