LGA1155/H3 CPU to pair with a GTX770

[SwagBossMan]

Title says all. I've already ordered an i3 2120 to use to begin with, but intend to upgrade it as soon as possible. My board supports second and third gen Intel, the three I had on my radar was an i5 2400 (£18), i5 2500 (£22) , i5 3470 (£22), but I'm willing to hear out any other suggestions. I'm considering the 3470 because my ram is 1600mhz, so, what i believe to be all, second gen cpus can't use that to its full potential.

Thank you to everyone on this forum for guiding my step by step through this whole process. Best believe any issue I get while building, I'll probably come here to cry about.  

[Haro]

I mean technically the best  consumer cpu you can get for this socket is a 3770k. 

I wouldn't personally go with a 3470. 

Consider a 2600/k as it's pretty close to the 3770. 

3 minutes ago, SwagBossMan said:

so, what i believe to be all, second gen cpus can't use that to its full potential

No?

[GDRRiley]

the i5 3470 will do okay but good luck finding an i7 from this gen for cheap. maybe you can get a xeon like that if your board will run them.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/#xcx=0&k=14&h=1&C=4,64&sort=-clock&A=3000000000000,4700000000000&f=29,20&page=1

there is the list of quad cores with hyperthreading and decent clockspeeds. xeons may not work in your board

[SwagBossMan]

Just now, TofuHaroto said:

No?

yeah tbh im just not the brightest

1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

I mean technically the best cpu consumer cpu you can get for this socket is a 3770k. 

I wouldn't personally go with a 3470. 

Consider a 2600/k as it's pretty close to the 3770. 

I don't think i ought to mess with overclocking, its my first build, and im on a q77 board, for anyone wondering. a 2600 is only like £48 so I might go with that. I don't have any budget I'm trying to stick with for the processor, just kind of hypothesizing as of now, but thank you guys.

[Haro]

2 minutes ago, SwagBossMan said:

a 2600 is only like £48

I mean. It's not double the performance compared to the 3470. But it probably won't choke as hard when it comes to multi threaded performance. The 3470 should still be decent. 

Edited July 10, 2020 by TofuHaroto

[SwagBossMan]

4 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

the i5 3470 will do okay but good luck finding an i7 from this gen for cheap. maybe you can get a xeon like that if your board will run them.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/#xcx=0&k=14&h=1&C=4,64&sort=-clock&A=3000000000000,4700000000000&f=29,20&page=1

there is the list of quad cores with hyperthreading and decent clockspeeds. xeons may not work in your board

dang, interesting. I might try the 3470 as a stepping stone, as its relatively inexpensive. to both you, and @TofuHaroto, does ram speed matter that much? do you think in my build, with the 770, i'll need to be worried about having that cap at 1333 mhz if i go with either of the second gens i mentioned? also, tofu, what are some of those second gen CPUs who don't have that memory speed cap? I'm pretty dumb with computer hardware on a whole so i'd appreciate any help (also thanks for the power supply advice)

[Haro]

1 minute ago, SwagBossMan said:

i'll need to be worried about having that cap at 1333 mhz

The performance difference won't necessarily be huge. 

 

1 minute ago, SwagBossMan said:

what are some of those second gen CPUs who don't have that memory speed cap?

Sandy bridge as an architecture can only support up to 1333 but as I said. It doesn't really matter. 

[GDRRiley]

2 minutes ago, SwagBossMan said:

dang, interesting. I might try the 3470 as a stepping stone, as its relatively inexpensive. to both you, and @TofuHaroto, does ram speed matter that much? do you think in my build, with the 770, i'll need to be worried about having that cap at 1333 mhz if i go with either of the second gens i mentioned? also, tofu, what are some of those second gen CPUs who don't have that memory speed cap? I'm pretty dumb with computer hardware on a whole so i'd appreciate any help (also thanks for the power supply advice)

ram doesn't really matter. 1333 or 1066 is fine.

[SwagBossMan]

1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

The performance difference won't necessarily be huge. 

 

Sandy bridge as an architecture can only support up to 1333 but as I said. It doesn't really matter. 

 

1 minute ago, GDRRiley said:

ram doesn't really matter. 1333 or 1066 is fine.

Ah, thank you. Thanks to both of you for all your help, and I'll see you somewhere in the next 24 hours or so with another question, probably  sorryyyyy