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A friend asked me to build him a PC for about 700€ (Germany if that matters) which is about 600$.  He said he needs a CPU with at least 4ghz because of Dying light. I dont think you need 4ghz for that game because even a stock 4770k only goes to 3.9ghz. Anyone got an idea how much dying light actually needs and what cpu I should get. Mobo, gpu and the rest ill find out

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What's the budget for the CPU or what is your build already? Because I do not think you can fit a 4770K inside a 700 euro build..

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Sorry, he told me it needed 4 ghz..... It only says 3.3ghz. I only meant that not even a 4770k has 4ghz stock and so I thought 4ghz is pretty unrealistic.. So this is solved I guess.

it's not all about the GIGAHURTS you know? theres a lot more than that to it...if he want to run dying light on great settings and match/beat the consoles experience he is gonna need an haswell i5-4690K CPU paired with a GTX 780(ti), R9 290(x) or GTX 970 GPU.

If he can afford the i7-4790K, this is the best CPU available right now for gaming .

Also any i5 or i7 haswell that ends with a ''K'' at the end is unlocked and can be overclocked at least to 4.0ghz easily...most of them can do 4.4ghz.

| CPU: Core i7-8700K @ 4.89ghz - 1.21v  |  Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING  |  CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 |
| GPU: MSI RTX 3080Ti Ventus 3X OC  |  RAM: 32GB T-Force Delta RGB 3066mhz |
| Displays: Acer Predator XB270HU 1440p Gsync 144hz IPS Gaming monitor | Oculus Quest 3 VR

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it's not all about the GIGAHURTS you know? theres a lot more than that to it...if he want to run dying light on great settings and match/beat the consoles experience he is gonna need an haswell i5-4690K CPU paired with a GTX 780(ti), R9 290(x) or GTX 970 GPU.

If he can afford the i7-4790K this is the CPU for gaming available right now.

Not true at all. No 970/290x/780 for 700€. This is a bit of a budget build so please go away with i7s.

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Not true at all. No 970/290x/780 for 700€. This is a bit of a budget build so please go away with i7s.

-i5-4460 (use boxed cooler it's perfectly adequate for this processor)

-cheapest H97 motherboard available to you

-8GB of DDR3 RAM cheap as possible.

-R9 290 GPU

-550W PSU 80+ bronze or better (check reviews before you buy, buy reputable brand and good units)

-cheap as possible case and HDD

| CPU: Core i7-8700K @ 4.89ghz - 1.21v  |  Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING  |  CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 |
| GPU: MSI RTX 3080Ti Ventus 3X OC  |  RAM: 32GB T-Force Delta RGB 3066mhz |
| Displays: Acer Predator XB270HU 1440p Gsync 144hz IPS Gaming monitor | Oculus Quest 3 VR

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I know, ive built cheap gaming builds before. I was only asking for the cpu thing...

then if the question was should i buy an AMD FX processor because they run at high frequency, the answer is no check reviews and benchmarks for dying light (and any other game for that matter) even a 3.4ghz core i3 outperform the FX-9590 in that game...AMD cores are very slow and have poor IPC count (instructions per clock) and even at 5ghz they still can't match haswell at 3ghz per core performance.

| CPU: Core i7-8700K @ 4.89ghz - 1.21v  |  Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING  |  CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 |
| GPU: MSI RTX 3080Ti Ventus 3X OC  |  RAM: 32GB T-Force Delta RGB 3066mhz |
| Displays: Acer Predator XB270HU 1440p Gsync 144hz IPS Gaming monitor | Oculus Quest 3 VR

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Hmm looks like load on single core is immense so you would need to get 4670k or 4690k and overclock

http--www.gamegpu.ru-images-stories-Test

 

Can i help you recommend pcpartpicker germany list?

And dont be afraid of overclocking. Linus will help you out just watch his video :) And you help your friend.
i5 overclocked will be best price performance because you can put the rest of the money on 4gb GPU and have better single core performance than if you left i7 stock. Cpu coolers are also only around 30 euros.

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Ok this is pretty bad build and there are better deals on idealo.de or mindfactory.de but this shows you can get overclockable chip into the build if you drop down to 280.

Later you add cpu cooler when you have money.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€219.90 @ Caseking)
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Pro3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (€84.89 @ Home of Hardware DE)
Memory: Corsair 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (€65.80 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€55.00 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: Club 3D Radeon R9 280 3GB royalKing Video Card  (€193.96 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Cooler Master N300 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€37.09 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€49.90 @ Caseking)
Total: €706.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-09 16:18 CET+0100

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GUYS STAHP! Ive built at least 20pcs in my life i know how to overclock and everything! I just wanted to know which cpu is best for dying light... Thank you everyone tho!

 

EDIT I really, really want to put a 120ssd in it... I may get a h/b chipset mobo and oc with that...

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Hmm looks like load on single core is immense so you would need to get 4670k or 4690k and overclock

Can i help you recommend pcpartpicker germany list?

And dont be afraid of overclocking. Linus will help you out just watch his video :) And you help your friend.

i5 overclocked will be best price performance because you can put the rest of the money on 4gb GPU and have better single core performance than if you left i7 stock. Cpu coolers are also only around 30 euros.

Quick question: I know i can o/c a 4690k on a H97M-Plus, does a 4670k o/c too?

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