Processor for gaming + occasional streaming

[PorkyChoUk]

Hello,

 

 

For christmas I am going to be building myself a gaming pc which should be able to play games from medium to high settings 60fps+ (cs.go, city skylines, Skyrim, Minecraft, Gmod, ETS2) with a budget of £600 ish and also do some occasional streaming to twitch.

 

 

Out of your opinion what would be better?

 

Get the top spec i3 or the low end I5?

 

 

 

Thanks, 

[Guest Kloaked]

Low-end i5.

[TheRandomness]

Low end i5 (4460) try save for a Xeon 1231v3 though, it's an i7 at top end i5 prices without the iGPU.

[harrynowl]

The top end i3 is over priced, the only ones worth caring about are the i3 4150 and the 4160 if it's the same price.

 

I'd be looking at i5-4460 and make use of OBS with the QuickSync encoder using the HD4600 GPU.

[PorkyChoUk]

The top end i3 is over priced, the only ones worth caring about are the i3 4150 and the 4160 if it's the same price.

 

I'd be looking at i5-4460 and make use of OBS with the QuickSync encoder using the HD4600 GPU.

 

The only thing is that the i5 4440 is supported and not the 4460

 

 

http://www.msi.com/product/motherboard/support/H81M-P33.html#support-cpu

[harrynowl]

The only thing is that the i5 4440 is supported and not the 4460

 

 

http://www.msi.com/product/motherboard/support/H81M-P33.html#support-cpu

It's listed lower down as it's Haswell Refresh. BIOS ver 7817 I think.

[Amazingasian]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£140.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£67.72 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: Patriot Signature 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£30.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£34.74 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card  (£269.98 @ Dabs) 

Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£26.70 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£90.74 @ Dabs) 

Total: £661.86

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-25 18:32 GMT+0000

 

You could bump the GPU down to a 380 if you want to save some $$$,

[PorkyChoUk]

It's listed lower down as it's Haswell Refresh. BIOS ver 7817 I think.

 

 

 

 

So if were to build it with the 4460 would it boot up to windows and act normal or would i have to some how update the bios?

[harrynowl]

So if were to build it with the 4460 would it boot up to windows and act normal or would i have to some how update the bios?

Given that Haswell refresh came out over a year ago any board you buy should be shipped with a compatible UEFI

[PorkyChoUk]

Given that Haswell refresh came out over a year ago any board you buy should be shipped with a compatible UEFI

 

Ok thank you <3