I want to use it for gaming like the Sims 4 with expansion packs, mods, CC - games like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Dead by Daylight and similar games. I also want to use it for personal things - some pictures/music/videos. Ideally I’d like to multitask while playing (Sims, other autonomous games). Which what suit me best do you think?
There’s not much benefit for gaming beyond the i7. So the 14700k if you have money to spend. But an i5 (13600k or 14600k) would still be more than fine. Even an i3 (13100) would be fine.
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We are talking a desktop, right? If we’re talking a laptop… just no.
i7 or even lower would be quite sufficient for this in a laptop, but I suspect i9 might be more energy efficient and thus easier to cool, but I’m judging this based on the desktop cpus, not laptop. So if the price didn’t matter at all I’d consider researching the laptop i9 models, but if it matters even a little bit then i9 is a too pricy overkill.
If the need is gaming, anything above an i5 is icing on the cake. Yes, it’s a little faster. But not noticeably so.