Hello there! I’m posting this on the lemmy.ca instance cause I guess most people here would be used to dealing with CAD.
So my situation is the following. I have an i7 3700 with a P8Z77-V that I use for 1200p gaming, mostly Paradox games. I wanna start playing Hogwarts Legacy and I definitely feel I need to beef this up.
Last year I bought an AS-IS i7 8700 on eBay for $125, which I only got to test this week. I bought an ASUS B365M V5 and 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 for $165CAD. Lo and behold, the i7 8700 is broken af and I can only get to Windows by disabling every single CPU feature and using only 1 core.
So I’ve sunk $165 on the LGA1151 platform. I have a chance to get an 8700k for $200, or an 8700 for $150 (and a bit of travel). Any suggestions? Thanks!
I usually use https://cpubenchmark.net to give an idea for relative computing power comparisons.
According to that the non-K is 5.7% worse than the K version which would be the difference of 56~57 vs. 60 frames for example and max power usage of 65W vs. 95W. Depends how much $50 is or will be worth to you, if it were me I’d go for the K, bc it will probably be worth it over the lifetime of the thing.
Be wary from AS-IS condition from now on, ask if it’s not clear what any issues might be.
With a BIOS update for the motherboard, does it support 9th gen?
Asus says that board supports 8th and 9th gen.
Then why look at 8700K if the board supports 9th gen like the 9900K?
I agree; I’m not OP.
In addition to what people said, if you’re in a major metropolitan are (GTA, GVA, Montreal), look on Kijiji/FB Marketplace for local deals. Chances of a broken CPU sold locally are significantly lower. Most of my current machines were sourced this way.
I hope you learned a lesson about buying CPUs from eBay sellers.
File a complaint on Ebay to get your money back.
Do you already have a video card? If not, I would go with the 8700 and put that extra 50 towards a video card.
