Does it make sense to buy intel core i7 8700 or is 8400 enough for programming?

Question

Iron

Does it make sense to buy intel core i7 8700 or is 8400 enough for programming? I use a virtual machine, phpstorm, a browser with a lot of tabs.

Answer 1

It's better to buy a core i5 and not play games.

Answer 2

You are probably already programming, so turn on the CPU load monitor and the memory monitor. I am sure that you will find that you rarely hit the processor.
Until the last moment I had a laptop with i5 2010 SSD + HDD and 8GB of RAM. It was enough for very good web programming in python, with local servers for testing on virtual machines. I changed it only because the memory in the laptop no longer fit.

Answer 3

I have an i7 4710HQ (percent of the 14th year, for a second) and there was no such thing that there was not enough processor. Right now I'm having cooling issues, so I've cut the maximum performance by 10% to get less heat, and it still works fine.
On this computer, even in The Witcher 3, I screwed up a little at very high settings. For a storm, any new processor will definitely be enough for you.

Answer 4

If a browser with a large number of tabs - then more memory, chrome is more and more gluttonous from release to release. A powerful processor is not particularly important for your tasks, there are few mathematical calculations.