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Hello All,

The following is my current gaming rig which is struggling with the recent games.

i5 2500k @ 4.7GHz
Asus P8Z68-V
GSkill DDR3 16GB
MSI GTX 1070 gaming X (Added Aug'16)
Asus Xonar DX
Plextor M3Pro 128GB
1TB WD Black
4TB Seagate
1TB Toshiba
Cooler Master HAF X
Cooler Master V1000 (Added Mar'2018)
Dell U2412M

The CPU hits 100% usage in almost all games and the gameplay isn't smooth through out, there are dips in FPS during explosions. The Graphics card usage doesn't cross 80% as my resolution is just 1920x1200 so retaining it for now.

So I'm planning on upgrading the processor, motherboard & RAM as of now.
The monitor will be changed by the end of the year(You know when:whistle:).
Thinking of i5 9600k but the Ryzen 5 3600X looks appealing too, so confused.
Give your comments & suggestions.
 
How does i3 9th gen fair against the 9600k purely in terms of gaming on 1200p with a GTX1070?
 
My advice (if you are intending on intel) is get a processor with hyperthreading. I recently had a 9700k and moved to a 9900k. Ignoring clocks because I run stuff in the background (chrome, slack, etc) I found without it that games paused and stuttered, where my ryzen 1700 didn’t. The 9900k doesn’t have this problem either.

At a guess it is because of windows’ scheduler and games requesting physical cores vs logical threads predominantly.

In real terms this makes the 8700k a better chip for gaming than the 9700k unless you’re exclusively gaming (killing all other apps).
 
MegaMind said:
How does i3 9th gen fair against the 9600k purely in terms of gaming on 1200p with a GTX1070?
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the i3 is the i3-9350 which is 4/4 c/t, 4.0 base 4.6 turbo, 8 MB L3 ($173).
the i5-9600k is 6/6 c/t, 3.7 base 4.6 turbo, 9 MB L3 ($262).
the i7-8700 is 6/12 c/t, 3.2 base 4.6 turbo, 12 MB L3 ($303). closest in price (MSRP)
the i7-9700k is 8/8 c/t, 3.6 base 4.9 turbo,12 MB L3 ($374).

the Ryzen competitors should have similar IPC and (in this price range) are
Ryzen 5-3600X 6/12 c/t, 3.6 base 4.2 boost, 32 MB L3 ($200)
Ryzen 5-3600X 6/12 c/t, 3.8 base 4.4 boost, 32 MB L3 ($250)
Ryzen 7-3700X 8/16 c/t, 3.6 base 4.4 boost, 32 MB L3 ($330)
Ryzen 7-3800X 8/16 c/t, 3.9 base 4.5 boost, 32 MB L3 ($400)

If you're gaming at 60 Hz, I doubt you'll have issues with ANY of these.
Intel has had an advantage sometimes in 100+ Hz, though we will need to see if Zen2 actually does close the IPC gap (and Intel still has a slight MHz edge).

If you multitask a lot or mutlitask/stream while gaming or love playing AAA titles, I would recommend getting a 6 or more core.
 
Sulphademus said:
If you're gaming at 60 Hz, I doubt you'll have issues with ANY of these.
Intel has had an advantage sometimes in 100+ Hz, though we will need to see if Zen2 actually does close the IPC gap (and Intel still has a slight MHz edge).

If you multitask a lot or mutlitask/stream while gaming or love playing AAA titles, I would recommend getting a 6 or more core.
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No multi tasking for now so that wouldn't be much of an issue for me.

I'll be assembling a basic PC(non-GPU) by the end of the year, so if I get an i3 with a H370/Z370 board now I can switch it to my secondary PC when I build one and get a zen2/9600K.

Say for almost 5 months I'll be using the i3 with GTX1070 for gaming, this wouldn't stutter/lag at games like GTA V, Project cars 2, FH4, etc. right(considering no multitasking)?
 
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