Quote (cdhollan @ Sep 15 2022 09:59am)
Curious your thoughts on getting an i5-12600K or waiting for Ryzen CPUs to be released at the end of the month
It's in a weird spot right now.
The Ryzen 5 7600X is coming in at $299.99 USD on launch vs. the i5 12600KF which is currently $259.99 USD. The Ryzen 7000 series have new tech in them, improving their IPC and overall performance tremendously over previous Gen. I don't think I would consider the Ryzen 5 7600X a better option over the i5 12600KF for the price difference. The i5 12600KF is a beast for the price and has +4 more physical cores over the Ryzen 5 7600X.
The Ryzen 5 7600X does have a higher mb cache and also a higher overall boost at 5.3ghz vs the i5 12600KF at 4.9ghz.
I'd take the i5 12600KF, and not too long from now intel will launch Raptor Lake CPU's which will probably trump the new Ryzen 7000.