[1st Post] Questions about CPU...

[NewFish]

Hello guys! Great to see a nice community here I might be selfish having my first post as a thread

 

I recently thought of building my first PC. However, father told me it should be a budget one with around $650 to spend. So i decided to have a look at the CPUs first. I'm interested with Intel i3-4160 or i5-4460 cause it's easier to get in my area   . Should I go with it? I'm playing games and i only want to run medium settings. Father's suggestion is to get a motherboard that can support the CPU im getting and wait for few more years and upgrade to a better one to cut cost. I'm hoping to maybe get a GTX 750 Ti to go with it? All of these is just a rough (x2) idea seeing I just recently read and know about them.

 

Edit 1 : I think I might need to not go for GTX 750 Ti, it might bottleneck maybe and it's quite expensive for me  

[martward]

Those cpu's are good if you want to play at medium settings, no problem.

Be sure to check out the gtx950, if it's affordable in your region than I would definitely prefer that one over the 750ti.

[ThinkWithPortals]

Welcome to the community @NewFish! Be sure to follow the topics that you create (white button above the orange one, to the right of the title) as it alerts you when people reply to your threads. Enjoy your stay!

Anyway, both of those are great CPUs and would do fine for gaming. My advice would be, if you don't have the money for an i5, buy an H97 motherboard and the i3 and upgrade to that i5 later on down the road, without replacing your motherboard. Also, try to get a GTX 950, it performs better than the 750 Ti for not much more money

[NewFish]

@martward and @ThinkWithPortals Thanks for the reply.

 

I'm not sure about GPU yet, I think I'll do more research about AMD first. Considering I'm not really into modern games I think maybe getting a GTX 680 should be sufficient?

Thx for the tip Portal

[incarnate]

If you can find a used 680 it would be better than the 750ti and 950, just be sure you get a power supply that can power it and you'll be good to go.

As far as the cpu is concerned, try and get the 4460, it is much better and well last you for years. No need to get a high end mobo, a cheap b85 board from msi, Asus, gigabyte or asrock will do quite well and well let you save some money. The i3 will be good too, but an i5 will do better and last longer.

If you can get an i5 and a 680, you'll be able to play any game there at some decent settings

[Wardaddy]

I think you should really reconsider your cpu, AMD fx-8350 having 8 cores and higher clock speed is better than i5 4460. It is also unlocked, so you can overclock it if you want and may cost you even lesser than 4460, the only drawback being it consumes more power than 4460.

[incarnate]

I think you should really reconsider your cpu, AMD fx-8350 having 8 cores and higher clock speed is better than i5 4460. It is also unlocked, so you can overclock it if you want and may cost you even lesser than 4460, the only drawback being it consumes more power than 4460.

Uhhhhhh..... no

There is a huge difference between an i5 at 3 ghz and an fx at even 5 ghz. The fx will still bottleneck a gtx 970 where the i5 can handle quad sli titan x (not that quad sli is worth it). The reason the i5 smashes any fx cpu is because it has stronger cores, so they don't need to be as fast to do more. Gaming likes stronger cores over more cores, hence why the fx 8xxx cpus are priced around i3s, since that's about the average gaming performance of the fx cpus.

[Prysin]

Those cpu's are good if you want to play at medium settings, no problem.

Be sure to check out the gtx950, if it's affordable in your region than I would definitely prefer that one over the 750ti.

CPUs has little to do with medium settings. Most settings are GPU bound with the exception with draw distances due to more NPCs being visible and thus being rendered and controlled.

[NewFish]

I'm going to start by saying thanks for the replies. Firstly, I don't really need to game at high settings, I'm not into modern games, just some games that doesn't require great graphics (I'm playing Moba games) ... So I've decided to run i3 4160 with Gigabyte H81M-S2SV + 8gb ram(KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DDR3 1600?) . This looks affordable for me For graphics maybe somewhere around $100? 

I'm converting my currency to US so it might be abit off but it's all good. 

 

EDIT 1: I think the sapphire 7770 is a great deal (GPU). Might be wrong section in forums . What do u guys think about the CPU n Motherboard?