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welcome back to harbor unbox today I'm updating my top 5 best CPUs list the last time I made a video in this series was six months ago and while I try to update this series at least once every six months so I suppose we're right on time it worked out well actually as I was waiting for the 9th gen core series from in total and before making the update and then I guess the Scarlet X refresh that we pretty much knew what to expect with that one so we now have a few new 9th gen CPUs from Intel a few new thread Ripper CPUs from AMD and even a budget Athlon cpu as well we so many options to choose from picking a CPU can be a little hard so hopefully this video will help the 5 categories are best budget CPU best value all-rounder desktop CPU a best value productivity CPU a best performance gaming CPU I can't really do 4 fingers that well and then the best extreme desktop CPU so let's get into the pics first up we have the best budget CPU and nothing has really changed here I'm still sticking with my may pick the horizon 322 energy before that back in a June of 2017 I was recommending the amazingly good value at least at the time the intel pentium g 45 60 but of course times have changed in a rather big way and ii recently released a $6 dual-core of their own the Athlon 200 GE but it's a bit of a lackluster part in my opinion it does beat out intel's current pentium lineup but the fact that it's a locked processor and I'm not a particularly impressive clock speed yeah the performance isn't great I've recently found that spending the extra forty dollars to secure the 2200 G is a much wiser investment as you get significantly more performance for that small increase in price and the dual-core SMT enabled Athlon CPU it has very little a Headroom and it's virtually useless with a modern mid-range GPU and therefore you will get considerably more mileage with the rise and three model of course the real competition for the 2200 G comes from the core i3 8100 which right now costs about $30 more and it gets smoked without a discrete graphics card and then if you want to use something like a GTX 1060 or rx 580 they both seem like appropriate graphics cards for such a CPU well they both deliver a similar gaming experience then for productivity workloads and general usage they're pretty evenly matched though once overclocked the 22 energy generally comes out on top so for me the fact that the Rison 322 energy is an unlocked part and therefore can be overclocked on an affordable motherboard a can take advantage of higher clocked memory packs a powerful integrated GPU and is slightly cheaper than the core i3 8100 that makes it my number one budget CPU Pig well at the risk of being a bit boring for this one I will be sticking with my six-month-old pick once again this time for the best of value all around a desktop CPU last update I picked to the horizon 520 600 or 2600 X over the core i5 8400 and before that I went with the horizon 5 1600 and that was in last year's update so if you've got around $200 to spend on a new CPU and you want something that can handle any and all tasks you throw it up with maximum efficiency then the Rison 5 2600 really is a must back in May I noted that the core i5 I was still an attractive alternative and I said that it was a little cheaper as it was at the time and it arguably provided a better gaming experience or at least better gaming performance I suppose with certain graphics cards the experience would be much the same anyway it's crazy to look back on that because today the Rison 5 2600 cost just 106 dollars u.s. while the core i5 8400 is retailing for at least 220 dollars u.s. making the Intel CPU almost 40% more costly so again pretty crazy that it's almost 40 percent more expensive given that it was actually cheaper last time I did my top 5 best gaming CPUs or top 5 best desktop CPU video so yeah that choice is very obviously now the horizon 5 therefore right now I'm recommending the Rison 5 2600 and I'm doing that actually over the 2600 X you can still go with the 2600 X but I think right now the ultimate value best all-rounder is the 2600 as a cost just 106 dollars u.s. opposed to $220 that you'll pay for the X model and with that massive saving I recommend spending a bit more money on your motherboard you could upgrade the cooling and go for overclocking that's also a valid option there but by getting a better motherboard you will set yourself up for the more serious 7 nanometer AMD CPUs next year so in short nothing and I mean absolutely nothing can hold a candle to the value of the Rison 5 2600 at that hundred and sixty dollar US retail price it's absolutely bonkers how good value this thing is right now so yeah if you're after a good value processor that's the one I'd be getting well this is a bit awkward six months ago now I picked to the AMD Rison 720 700 or 2700 X is the best of value productivity CPUs and today I'm picking well just the 2700 C that's a bit different right here you can pick up the 2700 for it's about $50 US less than the 2700 X and with that saving you can get a decent cooler and that will allow you to get the most out of the CPU that said I should just quickly note that you don't need to really overclock the 2700 X so you could just get that and run it stock and not mess around with overclocking and upgrading coolers and whatnot or you could just say $50 and forfeit a tiny amount of performance and then get a better quality motherboard which is what I suggested with the 2600 and then that's a pretty good plan for supporting those upcoming seven nanometers in two CPUs so in short for 270 dollars u.s. the horizon 7 2700 pretty much smashes anything and everything intel has to offer in this price range especially when it comes to productivity and the core i7 8700 series still holds an advantage in lightly threaded workloads thanks to a clock speed advantage but for seriously taxing a time-consuming productivity workloads the extra cause of the 2700 will hand it a real advantage the second gem rise and CPUs also took a decent step forwards when it comes to gaming performance and here the 2700 is very respectable especially when paired with the right memory as applications continue to make better use of Rison sevens many threads applications such as Premiere Pro CC as an example we're going to continue to see rising walking away with it of course Intel now also offers eight core 16 thread desktop CPUs well they offer the 900k you can't buy it it's really expensive but they do offer it but the point is the horizon 7 2700 is just world's better value it's almost half the price so because of that and then AMD's commitment to the am 4 platform I feel like right now the Rison 7 2700 the risin 7-series really offers shoppers the most bang for their buck okay so the best performance gaming CPU and obvious wean here for Intel but the question is which Intel CPU do you pick technically speaking the core Oh $9.99 or okay offers the highest level of performance for gamers so I guess it wins this category that said it all so well you can't buy it so in order to qualify for this category you first have to be able to buy it and then secondly it actually has to make sense and right now you certainly can't buy the nono okay at least not easily and it's debatable as to how much sense it makes at the $500 u.s. MSRP pricing really is the main issue here and Intel fans don't really seem to understand my position on this one for gamers the 99er okay doesn't really offer anything new or anything extra in terms of formats at best it's a few percent faster than the 8700 K and that is into obviously today's games so they can't test future games but those two extra cause it's kind of a rise in seven situation it's going to be a while before they become useful and by the time they do they'll be much better processors to buy so it doesn't really justify the 35% increase in price if you can buy the nine Schneider okay at the $500 u.s. MSRP the 1900 Calladine motherboard and if you want to achieve maximum performance you'll also need to get a really good cooler as well because it does run quite hot when trying to hit the multiplier table rather than being limited to the 95 watt TDP and I should just note at the 95 watt TDP while it does run very cool and extremely efficient more so than the rise in seven processors it's not really an upgrade over the 8700 K for gaming of course if money's not an issue and you just want a blazing fast rig the most blazing of blazing fast rigs possible then I guess the 9900 K is the option to get however if you're after a high-end gaming rig but it also has to make sense then well you've got to get the 8700 okay it's really a much more practical cpu and it's what I'd get if I was building a new gaming system so I'm going to continue recommending the Intel Core i7 87 or okay for now as the best gaming CPU okay finally a category with an updated pic though it's not exactly radically different so in June 2017 I went with a core I 970 900 X though I did make it clear at the time that I didn't actually recommend buying that processor until AMD's thread Ripper series arrived and we had a chance to evaluate it but I did conclude by saying if you must buy now and you're aware that there is a competitor incoming and she'll get the 1700 X it's still a beast of a CPU long story short the thread repair 1950 X arrived a few months later and it became without a doubt my number one pick for the best extreme desktop CPU category it's true that these 16 core 32 thread Koro 970 960 X is at times faster but it also costs 100% more so you're paying 100% more for roughly the same performance so yeah I don't want to pick that one on a technicality that it is technically better because I wouldn't buy that CPU then we have Intel's refresh the sky like X refresh and the core I 998 20x really isn't much better an $890 us it can't hold a candle to the $900 thread Ripper 2950 X which is the well the thread refer refresh I suppose though it's a bit more impressive them the refresh that Intel is offering so anyway the 2150 X is now my new pick for this category that said I should just note that the 1950 X is currently selling for $600 u.s. and that is without question the best value extreme desktop CPU right now so if you can get one of those for $600 u.s. or whatever equivalent that is in your currency then I would certainly recommend getting that as the 2950 X really isn't that much faster well there you have it my CPU picks as of November 2018 the horizon 322 energy is still the best choice for budget shoppers there isin five twenty six hundred very obviously the best choice right now in terms of price performance and everything else hundred $60 us for a six core 12 thread CPU is absolutely amazing so yeah best value desktop CPU hands-down then we have the horizon 7 2700 and the 2700 X and they really make the most sense for those wanting to get some real work done then for the ultimate no compromise gaming experience there's really nothing better than the core i7 8700 K you could argue that under most conditions it's not that much different than the Rison 7 2700 X but if you want to ensure maximum performance in all gaming titles no matter what the 8700 K is the CPU to go for then for those after extreme desktop CPU we have the third group of 2950 extra place in the outgoing 1950 X now as I mentioned just a moment ago if you can snag a 1950 X for $600 US or whatever the equivalent value is in your currency then that is absolutely the CPU to be getting that's an insane bargain anyway I hope these picks have helped any of you who are looking to buy a new CPU and let me know if you agree or disagree with any of my picks and you can do so down in the comment section below I'll make sure I read all of them anyway thank you for watching I'm your host Steve see you next time you