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I think what you should do is listen to the people in here who know what they're talking about who are trying to help you.While it might not be “slow” it definitely depends what you compare it to.
Seems silly to have an 8th gen i7 in my laptop and a 3 in a build.
But laptop processors don’t line up exactly with their desktop counter parts so.
I’m really struggling on building the cheapest thing possible to get something going, or buying the processor I’ll end up with right out of the gate.
What I should do is run cpu benchmark on my laptop then compare to the benchmarks on the processors etc I’m looking At
You are trying to assess the best per-dollar value for processing power. UserBenchmark, the god reference, isn't at useful here because it's "Value" metric has never been great, but more saliently because it's much more complicated, and designed to rank value based on the perspective of a gaming demand for processing power, not overall power. You want overall power.
Passmark is one of the pillars of UserBenchmark (a meta-benchmark). It's the best for straightforward, raw computational assessment. It's not like UserBenchmark or 3DMark that are geared towards certain crowds:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html
As you can see, right now, out-of-the-box, in terms of pure value, the FX-9590 (OEM/Tray) is the best value. Of course, that is misleading, because it doesn't factor in the CPU Cooler cost. It's also an older architecture. Across the top of the chart you can see Ryzen is the champ. The R5-1600 for $170 or the R5-2600 for $190 are the leaders. Since Ryzen overclocks more cheaply, this value win will hold true even if you choose to do that. The Ryzen 1st gen run ~4.0GHz wall, and the 2nd gen runs ~4.3GHz wall.
You were doing quite well when you had come to this conclusion. The reason I suggested the R7-1700 is because the value isn't significantly different for the R7-1700 (or R7-1800X right now), and so why not spring for the R7 since it is the best CPU you can put in that motherboard socket? It's not like you can "add" more to the CPU later the way you can with RAM. It requires a wholesale upgrade. Furthermore, if you do overclock, the overall improvement will favor the value of the 8-core processor. Why? Because a 10% improvement to the 8-core will yield more overall performance gained than a 10% improvement to a 6-core.
If the above chart doesn't satisfy you, then you can create your own spreadsheet which plugs in Passmark's Overclocked scores, or the UserBenchmark Overclocked Multicore scores, and divide by your dollar value.
People have explained to you why the R7-1700 is a better value than the R7-1800X pertaining to that 4GHz wall (the entry processor in any AMD class is almost always the best value for this reason, and was with the previous FX chips, too). However, at only a $20 premium right now, I would personally take the 1800X for its superior stock CPU Cooler (the Wraith Max).
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