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QUAKECore89 said:

JEMC said:

Is that sarcasm? Because that statement is mostly true, the i5 processors have always been the sweet spot for gaming, and the upcoming i5-8600K won't be any different.

The only difference is that, with 4 physical cores, the i3-8350K could steal the show, but that will depend mostly on Intel and how they price it.

No, it's just hilarious back then, when they were fighting over i5 & i7 like a crazy over and over again til this year they finally stopped talking about quad core vs multithread, thanks to popular game PUBG.

Right now, the craze argument started new topic.

"Core i5-8600K/Ryzen 5 1600X is a sweet spot, it's all you need for gaming!"

-2017

It was true back then, because HT doesn't always help in games, and it will be true again with the 8600K & 1600X because both will offer the best of both worlds: high frequencies for gaming (at least when OC) and more cores for background tasks.

hinch said:

JEMC said:

It happens to all of us.

Another possible use of those IGPs could be to make a Retro PC. For example you could build a machine to play win95-to-XP games, something that newer Windows can't do without lots of troubles, using something like an A10-7860K APU thanks to a powerful enough IGP (512 shaders @ 757MHz) that should be able to run most if not all those old games.

That APU plus a micro-ATX, 4 GB of DDR3, a regular 500GB HDD, case, PSU and a WinXP license (probably the hardest thing to find), and you can have a retro PC for less than a Vega 56/GTX 1070 cost.

I was thinking of buying a cheap HTPC for the living room.

Maybe looking out for the Raven Bridge APU for a small build. Though DDR4 prices are silly expensive at the moment. Failing that, maybe I should look into older platforms (AM3)? As I already have a spare pair of DDR3 ram put away.

Well, a Raven Bridge APU will be your best bet, obviously, but we don't know when AMD will launch it.