Wondering what people’s suggestions would be should I get the current gen i7 or last gen i9?

Primarly use my pc for gaming a bit of video editing + work but when I upgrade my pc again in hopefully 5+ years I put the CPU, motherboard and memory into my home server that I use for my lab.

i9 is £460 i7 is £420

  • No_Dig_7017BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a 13900k and there really few and far between workloads that can use the sustained all 40 threads to its maximum. I do high performance computing and encoding besides gaming. I get 100% usage with some very specific R code, Python only goes above 1 core for very short durations and handbrake uses ~60% of the cpu for software x265. Also you’ll need faster ram to get the most of it and cooling it is a harder as well. I’d go with the 14700k, save the difference and place it towards the gpu