Intel i5 7640X

Is it worth it? £139 BF deal, crazy cheap.

Short story: My Mobo is dead, corrupt bios and cannot boot. (Tried everything, don't ask)

So i wish to jump back to intel, never had a bad board, number two now with AMD.

Actually may rid myself of AMD completely, i'm a very sour person.

Also great BF deals on 1070's.

x299 boards are crazy expensive tho and it's also a 4 core with no hyper threading

I think its worth

The x299 platform as a whole is worthless, unless you’re buying at least an 8 core cpu for productivity/content creation imo.

If you only want 6 cores or less, coffee lake or even Ryzen would be a much better value.

RMA your Motherboard you have a 3 year warranty... Going to an quad core i5 is not even worth it, and especially on 299x board.

Depends really. Bang for buck yeah the mainstream 115X is far better, but if need more pcie lanes or more memory bandwidth, the X299 is far better. Not looking at the Kaby Lake X processors such as 7640X and 7740X because they are just their mainstream variants in a different wrapping imo.

X editions of CPUs are well for the richest I would say.

I do recommend on going for the new Intel CPUs, their MOBOs however are extremely expensive - that's the main drawback.

I would say try Microcenter since they're good known for CPU+MOBO deals but since you're paying with pounds I assume you don't have one around you.

Don't forget you'll need new RAM as well DDR4.

X editions also require of you to get LGA2066 MOBOs which aren't for the regular gamer consumer - maybe if you'd want to do some pro editing or something alike.