Need to pick cpu

[FroakieTheGod]

Budget (including currency): around £700

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: triple a titles, fps games like apex and some schoolwork

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): playing at 1080p with a 120 hz monitor

 

I’m buying a brand new pc in about a week and I was wondering if the i3 12100f is enough to run games with say discord in the background. I’m getting an rx 6600 xt and I don’t plan to run 120fps in all games just fps games really. Not bothered really so long as it’s a smooth 60 in Elden ring, Spider-Man remastered etc. I would like to get the i3 as it is cheaper and I don’t really want to fork out the extra like £60-£70 for the i5 12400f but I can If need be. Any thoughts on whether I should stick with the i3 or save a bit more for the i5? Thanks this is my first pc build

 

[--SID--]

You do better to pick a Ryzen 5600 and B550 motherboard.

[Blqckqut]

10 minutes ago, FroakieTheGod said:

Budget (including currency): around £700

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: triple a titles, fps games like apex and some schoolwork

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): playing at 1080p with a 120 hz monitor

 

I’m buying a brand new pc in about a week and I was wondering if the i3 12100f is enough to run games with say discord in the background. I’m getting an rx 6600 xt and I don’t plan to run 120fps in all games just fps games really. Not bothered really so long as it’s a smooth 60 in Elden ring, Spider-Man remastered etc. I would like to get the i3 as it is cheaper and I don’t really want to fork out the extra like £60-£70 for the i5 12400f but I can If need be. Any thoughts on whether I should stick with the i3 or save a bit more for the i5? Thanks this is my first pc build

 

if you want some extra gaming horsepower i suggest a 5800x3d with b550 board, altho that might be overkill, personaly i have good experience with it (110-120 fps on old processor in warzone 2, 170-190 on 5800x3d) si id say itll be huge for elden ring and such, especialy with AMD S.A.M would make ur gaming even faster, fits in ur budget and will allow u to upgrade even further in the future

[FroakieTheGod]

Just now, Blqckqut said:

if you want some extra gaming horsepower i suggest a 5800x3d with b550 board, altho that might be overkill, personaly i have good experience with it (110-120 fps on old processor in warzone 2, 170-190 on 5800x3d) si id say itll be huge for elden ring and such, especialy with AMD S.A.M would make ur gaming even faster, fits in ur budget and will allow u to upgrade even further in the future

Thanks I’ll take a look

[Somerandomtechyboi]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/vCG9bK

5500 + 6700xt + 32gb 3200c22

 

Make sure you can return the 6700xt if faulty, if you can then its completely safe to buy used

 

Dont worry about the useless cl metric on the rams, should come with decent d9xpf 16gbit b die for oc, though board may be a limiter as to how high itll clock since these ics can hit 5000+ for 1:1 fclk on cezanne so an ideal setup would be a dual rank 4x8 with used hma81gu6djr8n or ct8g4dfs8266.c8fe so youll only have to clock em to 4200-4400, if this is confusing asf just get those crucials and overclock later or lazy oc 4200-4400 20-25-25-25-45 1.4-1.45v and mobo auto set everything else which is better than just running stock since the 5500 has a cache deficit but very good imc

 

As for the cpu just set 1.35-1.4v vcore with medium/no llc and set 4.7-4.8ghz allcore

[Why_Me]

6 hours ago, --SID-- said:

You do better to pick a Ryzen 5600 and B550 motherboard.

This ^^