CPU for $175

[SubPolarGaming]

Any one know of the best CPU I could get for under $175 for my new gaming rig

[pinksnowmanshandle]

Any one know of the best CPU I could get for under $175 for my new gaming rig

AMD A10 7580K - AMD FX 8320 - AMD FX 8350

Slightly more: i5 4690K

[Faceman]

Any one know of the best CPU I could get for under $175 for my new gaming rig

Welcome to the forum!

 

Please remember to follow your topics, and in order for someone to see that you have replied, you need to quote or "@" them.

 

When budgeting for a new gaming rig, it isn't a good idea to budget out component by component.

 

Where are you located?  What is your total budget?  Do you need peripherals? Monitor? OS?  What is the main purpose of the rig? 

[SubPolarGaming]

Welcome to the forum!

 

Please remember to follow your topics, and in order for someone to see that you have replied, you need to quote or "@" them.

 

When budgeting for a new gaming rig, it isn't a good idea to budget out component by component.

 

Where are you located?  What is your total budget?  Do you need peripherals? Monitor? OS?  What is the main purpose of the rig? 

ok then thanks for the info for that will think about for next time I post

[SteveGrabowski]

Any one know of the best CPU I could get for under $175 for my new gaming rig

 

i5-4440 by a mile

 

http://www.outletpc.com/ye8635-intel-core-i5-4440-quad-core-lga-1150-cpu.html?utm_source=ye8635-intel-core-i5-4440-quad-core-lga-1150-cpu&utm_medium=shopping%2Bengine&utm_campaign=pcpartpicker&utm_content=Intel%2B-%2BCPUs%20%28Processors%29%20%3E%20Intel%20Core%20i5

[Hieb]

 

Intel Side:

 

Pays $100 more for motherboard? Maybe if you compare a budget 970 board to a performance Z97 motherboard. Otherwise you can easily pay less with Intel. Mainstream H97 and Z97 boards cost less than the cheapest 990FX board, even though that's a really outdated platform at this point. http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/parts/motherboard/#xcx=0&c=17,18,100,99&sort=a8

 

Pays extra for "unlocked" CPUs? Like AMD now does with their current lineup of FM2/FM2+ CPUs? Not to mention it's a way to make money when overclocking isn't necessary. Most Haswell CPUs at stock are better than AMD CPUs overclocked for mainstream use (gaming or general use).

 

Post-purchase rationalization? Sounds a lot like AMD users too... everyone does this, AMD users are no different when they go "Well I needed many cores" or "The future will need more cores" or "It gives me more multitasking performance"....

 

Often cite low-res Anandtech "benchmarks"? Low res benchmarks are done to determine at what point the CPU becomes a bottleneck. That's the whole point of a test. You could compare an Intel Pentium to an i7-5960X and get identical results if you're testing at 4K with an R7 240 because that would be totally GPU-bound. The whole point in a CPU review is to find out where CPUs become the limiting factor in a game compared to other CPUs. So yes, these are a good way to determine which CPU is superior for gaming and less likely to be a bottleneck.

 

Thinks Intel costs less due to 10W less power draw? Since when is it 10 watts? Gap between FX-8350 and i5-4690K (being generous here - gap is bigger against similarly priced i5s like 4460) is like 50 watts and increases to over 100 watts if you overclock the chips. Of course this isn't a huge factor for most people but it's worth considering, especially if you live somewhere like Australia, Hawaii, etc.

 

AMD side:

 

Outstanding multi-threaded? For the price, yep. Excellent performance in parallel workloads for their price.

 

Healthy mix between work and play? What the hell does that even mean? Intel games better at most price points (I'd say that these days Athlon is better route than Pentium), and the only work where the FX is really better than comparable priced Intel chips is in video encoding and file compression. In other things like photo editing, 3D modelling, calculations it depends heavily since many applications and types of calculations are single-threaded, and many are multi-threaded so you can't really bank on one to be always better than the other here. Saying that AMD is a good balance between work and play is like saying a badminton racquet is a good balance for badminton and tennis... it's great for badminton and you could hit a tennis ball with it just not as well as a tennis racquet, like AMD is great for many heavily threaded workloads (for its price) and can play games, just can't play games as well as Intel. Using this logic Intel would also be a healthy balance since it would game better and then only be lagging behind in the parallel workloads.

 

Knows the value of a dollar? Clearly not if they spend their money on underperforming components.

 

Spends saved money on a stronger GPU? Waste of money if you have a CPU bottleneck... why not buy an Athlon dual-core instead of the FX-8320 so you can afford a better GPU? Because your GPU can't perform to potential if held back by CPU.

 

Uses superior well-written software that uses all cores? Please explain how you could make a geometric series calculation into a parallel workload? A lot of things don't scale over many cores NOT because of poorly written software, but because a lot of steps need to be done sequentially. For example you couldn't simultaneously calculate A^2 + B^2 and √C^2 since you need the answer of the first calculation before the second calculation can be done. Some tasks scale well, like video encoding since every pixel is independent. Games can't just set up everything that needs doing to enter a queue to be processed at random... various tasks are assigned to certain threads. For example audio might be done by core #2, physics might be done by core #1, etc. I find it hilarious that people with AMD processors blame developers for their programs not running as well. Of course there are measures that can be taken to increase the multi-threadedness of the program (usually), and everyone (not just AMD users) benefit from this... but AMD's architecture is undoubtedly worse.

 

Found that AMD is faster through personal research? Meaning... found a multi-threaded Cinebench or Passmark benchmark and concluded that AMD is better if developers know how to develop? Hilarious. Like those people who discovered that dentists and doctors have no idea what they're talking about thanks to blogs on the internet.

[weez]

Any one know of the best CPU I could get for under $175 for my new gaming rig

 

Whats the parts you have so far? Or are you building a new rig and need everything?

[Faceman]

@Hieb

 

You just nailed it dude.