I need help about chipsets

[Goku1814]

Currently I have Z170x motherboard; a Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming Motherboard to be exact and am I'm looking to upgrade, would a i5 8400 work in my current motherboard? Or would i have to get a new motherboard in order to use that i5 8400?

[The_russian]

Your motherboard does not support an 8400, the Z170 chipset only supports 6th and 7th gen CPUs. You would need something like a z370.

[Goku1814]

What would be the best budget z370 motherboard?

[SavageNeo]

14 minutes ago, Goku1814 said:

What would be the best budget z370 motherboard?

DO not get 8th gen intel now. ryzen is no-brainer right now.

something like this would work: 

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$172.39 @ Newegg
Motherboard	MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard	$114.99 @ Best Buy
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory	$83.99 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$371.37
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-06 04:06 EDT-0400

that cpu is much ebtter than i5 8400

 

 

[-rascal-]

@SavageNeo does have a point.

If you NEED to get a new motherboard for a NEW CPU, might as well put Ryzen 3600 (or higher) in your consideration -- just as a side-by-side comparison even.

 

I would not get a i5-8400 either.

It's a 2.8 GHz base clock, and boosts UP TO 4.0 GHz.

2.8 GHz all-core base frequency is on the low side.

 

You should consider a i5-8600(K / non-K) or i5-9600(K / KF / non-K) instead.

 

From what I can see, the P-states / boost tables are as follows for the i5-9600.

Keep in mind, these are UP TO numbers...

• 1 Core active (remaining 5 cores idle) -- up to 4.6 GHz
• 2 Cores active -- up to 4.5 GHz
• 3 Cores active -- up to 4.5 GHz
• 4 Cores active -- up to 4.4 GHz
• 5 Cores active -- up to 4.4 GHz
• 6 Cores all active -- up to 4.3 GHz

 

i5-9600K / 9600KF has a base frequency of 3.7 GHz, and boosts up to 4.6 GHz as well.

[Goku1814]

I mostly just wanna play borderlands 3 at 1080p and doom enternal. Does the graphics card have to be AMD or will a Nvidia one work?

[-rascal-]

5 hours ago, Goku1814 said:

I mostly just wanna play borderlands 3 at 1080p and doom enternal. Does the graphics card have to be AMD or will a Nvidia one work?

 

Graphics card does not matter, either AMD or nVidia will work fine.

Doom Eternal (also Doom 2016) is more optimized with AMD GPUs, though.