How do i choose the perfect CPU?

[Makmarian]

Amount of cores   ,   Hyper-threding   ,    Clock speed    ,   Cache    ,    and other things that a CPU have.

 

What is best, more Cahce and less clock speed? more cores but lower clock speed? etc...

 

What should i choose for gaming and what should i choose for working with big document, making music, video production etc...

 

When do i need more of one of these? 

[alexhelvetica]

I would chose an i5 for gaming.

and a Xeon or i7 for that other stuff.

 

Making music and video production will like the extra threads seen in an i7 or xeon.

In gaming (most of the time) you will only need 4 cores and 4 thread, so thats why an i5 is the way to go

[German_John]

Amount of cores   ,   Hyper-threding   ,    Clock speed    ,   Cache    ,    and other things that a CPU have.

 

What is best, more Cahce and less clock speed? more cores but lower clock speed? etc...

 

What should i choose for gaming and what should i choose for working with big document, making music, video production etc...

 

When do i need more of one of these? 

In general, more is always better

 

For gaming, you'll need faster cores more than lots of cores and threads, so a quad core will be fine. Note that a hyperthreaded dual core is not the same, and I recommend a quad core because I believe that lots of upcoming AAA games will need one. 

 

For large documents and files you will also need lots of ram, which arguably has a bigger impact. The rest depends on what program you're working with and what kind of work you're doing, so there is not really an answer. In geneal, Adobe stuff will benefit from more cores and will need less raw speed than games.

[AlTech]

Amount of cores   ,   Hyper-threding   ,    Clock speed    ,   Cache    ,    and other things that a CPU have.

 

What is best, more Cahce and less clock speed? more cores but lower clock speed? etc...

 

What should i choose for gaming and what should i choose for working with big document, making music, video production etc...

 

When do i need more of one of these? 

Gaming:

Hyper threading is not necessary

Clock speed around 3GHz

Quad core CPU

Cache doesn't matter too much

 

TBH for gaming go for i5-4570S (2.9GHz, 65w, quad core)

 

Making music/video:

 

Eight core

Hyper threading

Clock speed around 2.5-3GHz

A load of cache

etc

 

Pick up a eight core Xeon E5 Haswell or Broadwell

[AlTech]

I would chose an i5 for gaming.

and a Xeon or i7 for that other stuff.

 

Making music and video production will like the extra threads seen in an i7 or xeon.

In gaming (most of the time) you will only need 4 cores and 4 thread, so thats why an i5 is the way to go

Nah not really, it would benefit a lot from more cores than more threads.

[ZetZet]

 

4570s? wtf

[alexhelvetica]

Nah not really, it would benefit a lot from more cores than more threads.

I understand that video editing and music creations the more cores and threads the better.

that is why I said, "will like the extra threads"

[SeanAngelo]

Amount of cores   ,   Hyper-threding   ,    Clock speed    ,   Cache    ,    and other things that a CPU have.

 

What is best, more Cahce and less clock speed? more cores but lower clock speed? etc...

 

What should i choose for gaming and what should i choose for working with big document, making music, video production etc...

 

When do i need more of one of these? 

Cores: 4

HT: Depends on what you're doing. Gaming? not needed. Editing, Rendering, Streaming etc? needed.

Clock speed: 3GHz or more.

Cache: Doesn't matter.

 

Gaming - i5 4690k / i5 6600k is more than enough.

Rendering/Gaming/Streaming/Editing - i7 4790k / i7 6700k / i7 5820k

[AlTech]

4570s? wtf

Hey, energy efficiency is a thing you know! 65w vs 84w! All for 98% performance!

[ZetZet]

Hey, energy efficiency is a thing you know! 65w vs 84w! All for 98% performance!

Dude, skylake exists.

[AlTech]

Cores: 4

HT: Depends on what you're doing. Gaming? not needed. Editing, Rendering, Streaming etc? needed.

Clock speed: 3GHz or more.

Cache: Doesn't matter.

 

Gaming - i5 4690k / i5 6600k is more than enough.

Rendering/Gaming/Streaming/Editing - i7 4790k / i7 6700k / i7 5820k

For rendering Xeon E5 and how does nobody care about energy efficiency and power consumption?

[AlTech]

Dude, skylake exists.

I'm not buying a new mobo for that! And by the way Skylake is a "tock" so it's all about perf not energy efficiency (that was what broadwell was about)

[ZetZet]

I'm not buying a new mobo for that! And by the way Skylake is a "tock" so it's all about perf not energy efficiency (that was what broadwell was about)

uhm, every skylake non-k chip is 65w and not 2.9ghz.

 

 

S stands for SCAM. Just saying.

 

For rendering Xeon E5 and how does nobody care about energy efficiency and power consumption?

Because 10W here and there doesn't change a thing for end user. If you ran 10000 of these machines you might think about it. But if you run one you don't throw away performance for efficiency, especially when the difference is almost impossible to notice.

[SeanAngelo]

For rendering Xeon E5 and how does nobody care about energy efficiency and power consumption?

Nobody cares about energy efficiency and power consumption tbh.... I don't anyway. Electricity is quite cheap here.

 

20W isn't that much.

[AlTech]

Nobody cares about energy efficiency and power consumption tbh.... I don't anyway. Electricity is quite cheap here.

 

20W isn't that much.

Nice GIF LOl!

 

WHAT! Electricity here is expensive! And saving a whole load of energy is quite good

 

*thinks about polar bears and global warming*

[AlTech]

 

uhm, every skylake non-k chip is 65w and not 2.9ghz.

 

 

S stands for SCAM. Just saying.

 

Because 10W here and there doesn't change a thing for end user. If you ran 10000 of these machines you might think about it. But if you run one you don't throw away performance for efficiency, especially when the difference is almost impossible to notice.

 

Nah the S have real world benefits. And TBH I'll stay with haswell stuff until Canonlake (8th gen) or 9th gen.

[A10-FTW]

Amount of cores   ,   Hyper-threding   ,    Clock speed    ,   Cache    ,    and other things that a CPU have.

 

What is best, more Cahce and less clock speed? more cores but lower clock speed? etc...

 

What should i choose for gaming and what should i choose for working with big document, making music, video production etc...

 

When do i need more of one of these? 

4 cores = good cpu 

[AlTech]

4570s? wtf

BTW can you help me with this please! Nobody is responding   . 

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/463556-streaming-games-and-storage-server-simulatenously/

[Nena Trinity]

Best CPUs have 4, 6 or 8 cores/treads and over 4.0GHz turbo... (3.0 is fine to mostly unless its AMD...)

[Prysin]

Amount of cores   ,   Hyper-threding   ,    Clock speed    ,   Cache    ,    and other things that a CPU have.

 

What is best, more Cahce and less clock speed? more cores but lower clock speed? etc...

 

What should i choose for gaming and what should i choose for working with big document, making music, video production etc...

 

When do i need more of one of these? 

Get an I7 right away, Do not bother with the i5.... i7 is stronger, more "future proof" and performs better. It will always perform better, because it simply IS better.

[Benji_w]

Amount of cores   ,   Hyper-threding   ,    Clock speed    ,   Cache    ,    and other things that a CPU have.

 

What is best, more Cahce and less clock speed? more cores but lower clock speed? etc...

 

What should i choose for gaming and what should i choose for working with big document, making music, video production etc...

 

When do i need more of one of these? 

 

By doing your research and not listening to a misinformed and biased forum...

[German_John]

Get an I7 right away, Do not bother with the i5.... i7 is stronger, more "future proof" and performs better. It will always perform better, because it simply IS better.

If OP only plans to game, there will be no reason to get an i7 and there would probably be more reason to spend that money on getting a newer gen CPU, mobo and DDR4, so you can swap out the CPU at will.