Hi everyone,
Planning on building a PC and looking for your opinions. Probably not the best time to be building, but I have a PC I built in 2013 which I feel I've outgrown and want to sell.
Link to PC Partpicker build
I've manually adjusted the GPU price as I'm in a preorder queue for one (not expecting to get it any time soon). I'd normally go with AMD, but it seems like the best value for money right now is Intel.
Thanks for your help!
I have the 750x - great PSU, so damn quiet.
11400f is the best value single core performance cpu atm, its roughly $100 cheaper than the 10700k
Thats pretty good value. I'm interested in Autocad work as well as gaming. So I don't want to limit myself too much
Get a Ryzen
Not a lot of point if I have to pay double for similar performance.
Maybe +600 on that build for the graphics card.
Not possible for $1000
According to PLE it is
Also according to PLE it is oos
Yep as I wrote in my post. Although it was 90%+ orders filled
I got my 10700K prior to the release of the AMD 5000x series. If I were you I'd pay very close attention to what the real temps are of the 5000x series with air cooling, and if it's significantly lower than Intel and doesn't cost much more, then go with AMD.
The benchmarks are misleading because they use a single core turbo that exceeds safe temperatures after a few minutes, in particular when AVX is used. This also seemingly makes overclocking pointless, because you want to underclock if anything. Another thing is programs that benefit from single-core aren't usually purely single-core programs, so you end up with frequency jumps that reduce performance and increase the risk of damage.
If you do go with Intel, here's my pro tip: Do get overclocking capability, but don't leave it to default or do a fixed overclock. Use the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to manually set the same turbo ratio for all cores (i.e. 50x for 10700K). Don't use fixed voltage, the automatic turbo does the job better. LLC might still need changing in BIOS, can't remember now. Use Intel Thermal Velocity boost to set a turbo ratio downgrade on all cores in case it does get too hot, but this shouldn't happen. Set AVX offset to 0, otherwise you will get frequency fluctuations and basically never get your turbo frequency. This works well for games and non-intensive programs. When you want to run an intensive AVX program such as a video encoder say, then you simply apply a 7x or greater AVX offset in Intel XTU, and then turn it off when you're done, which only takes 5 seconds. The voltages, and consequently temps, will automatically adjust to the lower clockspeed (which is 4.3GHz in this case). It sucks that one has to micromanage like this, but unfortunately that's just the reality of these modern processors if you want something that's actually better than what you bought in 2013.
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07KXLFDL6
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/product/corsair-rm750x
10600K/KF/KA