What would work better

[Hamzabrzi]

So I'm thinking of buying either :

MSI Z97 with Core I7 4790 and 16gb ddr3 ram

or

ASUS B150M , Core I5 6500 - Socket 1151 with  G.SKILL 16GB(2x8) RGB DDR4 3000 Mhz 1.35V.

I'm looking to play games like Rust and Escape from tarkov which are both cpu intensive games I already have gtx 970.

[Pixelfie]

i7-4790 is about 10% faster, but also older and uses more power. The i5-6500 will give you about 60fps in Rust and 100 in Tarkov, so if you really care about that 5-15 fps difference or edit video's go with the i7. If not I would recommend the i5 since you can use that RAM if you plan on upgrading the CPU and it requires less power. You're likely gonna have a GPU bottleneck with both.

[Hamzabrzi]

5 minutes ago, Pixelfie said:

i7-4790 is about 10% faster, but also older and uses more power. The i5-6500 will give you about 60fps in Rust and 100 in Tarkov, so if you really care about that 5-15 fps difference or edit video's go with the i7. If not I would recommend the i5 since you can use that RAM if you plan on upgrading the CPU and it requires less power. You're likely gonna have a GPU bottleneck with both.

I think I have 500 or 600 w psu 

[Pixelfie]

1 minute ago, Hamzabrzi said:

I think I have 500 or 600 w psu 

You should be fine. The 970 doesn't use too much power so there's some left for the CPU's.

[Hamzabrzi]

1 minute ago, Pixelfie said:

You should be fine. The 970 doesn't use too much power so there's some left for the CPU's.

So the ram dose not play a big factor when playing games ? 

[Pixelfie]

2 minutes ago, Hamzabrzi said:

So the ram dose not play a big factor when playing games ? 

It does make a difference but the CPU would be more important. If you plan on upgrading the CPU go for the 6500 since you don't need to buy new RAM.