re: Want to buy a beginners Gaming computer for my son.

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Thank you, leave room for the people that know what they're talking about

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You clearly don't. No offense.

edit: The fact that you would link a motherboard with 2 channels says a lot.

Take this fwiw, during college I managed a computer department at the local best buy.

Any customer who chose to go the beyond cheap route, always came back and bitched/complained about how we sold them garbage.

Cheap != good or longevity for that matter.

A Ryzen 5 1600 and a basic B350 motherboard is cheaper than a 7600k and a Maximus and will be way more future proof.

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The fact that you would link a motherboard with 2 channels says a lot. 

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The guy is trolling.

Carry on.

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But he managed some shite at best buy

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And now I R&D and oversee C&I of a large majority WCDMA / LTE / 5G networks for TMO / ATT / Verizon.

But I don't know what im talking about. I just sit in a room with commercial grade shite all around me for fun.


Whats your creds? LinusTechTips doesn't count.

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CCNA, CCDP, A+, N+ to name a few

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LOL Cisco certs?

GTFO

That was part of my PDP when I first hired on here.

Are you Rhel Cert in anything?

Edit: I'm legit laughing that you think Cisco certs mean anything anymore.

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I just saw this post...

Your joking right?

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Benchmarks say im right, but of course it doesn't fit the clear AMD fanboy narrative here right now.

The new Ryzen chips are nice for people who are on a budget and can't afford intel.

You posted bullshite synthetic benchmarks. I posted real gaming performance benches, and you decide to change the narrative to the biggest fallacy in PC building in future proofing.

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My 2600k build got me roughly 6 year at high performance.

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Playing minecraft?

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My 2600k build got me roughly 6 year at high performance.

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Because that's a 4 core/8 thread chip. The 7600k is a 4 core/4 thread chip, so you might as well get the 1300x for $100 cheaper. They'll have near the same longevity. Games are taking more and more advantage over cores these days over pure speed.

If you want to bring in future proofing, he can spend a whopping $10 more to get a mobo compatible with the 1800x (and it would come with M.2 too OMFG), so he can upgrade to that down the line if he wants to.

And about the DIMM slots, it's actually cheaper to get 2x8gb sticks than it is to get 4x4. Both platforms run dual channel, so there's absolutely zero added benefit to the extra DIMM slots

So for $10 more you get all the expandability he needs.

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Then again my machine needs to be able to not only play games but pull pcaps from live networks. Those are in the 10-100GB range.

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Still a mediocre PC