Help with Mini-ITX Gaming Build

[Biggerboat1]

Pemalite said:

Biggerboat1 said:

The thing with Pemalite's suggested AMD CPU & mobo is that they're coming in at £244.98 & £158.99, compared to £179.99 & £95.48 for the 8400 & mobo I originally suggested...

On top of that, from what I can see from this article, the 8400 is faster for gaming than every Ryzen chip... So what am I missing - why would I pay significantly more for less performance?

 

The Ryzen 2700 gives you 2 extra CPU cores and 10 extra CPU threads.
It also has a 400mhz base clock and 200mhz Boost clock advantage... Plus cache advantages and so on.
End result is... Faster single threaded performance and massive advantage in multi-threaded scenarios.

You could probably find a cheaper AMD ITX motherboard... But you really are paying for significantly better performance.

As for the PC gamer benchmarks... Something is off. No way will a Broadwell 5930K outbench an i9 7900X.

Anandtech is a better representation: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2341?vs=2274
And as more games become heavily threaded, the Ryzen will age far far better... It's like the Core 2 Quad Q6600 and Core i7 980 all over again.

It's a complete reversal these days... I couldn't possibly recommend AMD FX to anyone, only Intel.
Today I can't recommend Intel, only AMD. AMD Simply have more bang-for-buck.

Would you say that the 2600, as Bofferbrauer2 is suggesting would be a good compromise? (especially if the OC is a realistic option...)