Which CPU?

[Phaeton]

I'm building a gaming rig around this July/August and can't decide on which Gen on the Intel side. From the research that I have done the 4690k has great OC headroom and but is on the haswell chipset with ddr3. The 6600k or 6500 are good, but straddle the 4690k in price, with good OC headroom on the 6600k but for more money especially with the z170 mobos going for upwards of 100 USD.

Currently I am running a Core 2 quad q9550 with a MSI 650ti boost. I plan to get either the msi r9 380 4gb or the msi 960 4gb.

 

I am welcome to suggestions on the CPU / rest of the build. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

I'm unsure about the CPU, but choose the 380 for the GPU. It generally has a substantial performance difference compared to the 960.

[pokechat8978]

Go for the 6500, and get the new AMD GPUs because they should be out by the time you build in July/August.

[Phaeton]

Just now, ChickenNugget said:

I'm unsure about the CPU, but choose the 380 for the GPU. It generally has a substantial performance difference compared to the 960.

That's what I've seen the most I've just kept the green team in the race since I have ably ever used NVIDIA

[Aleksbgbg]

4 minutes ago, Phaeton said:

I'm building a gaming rig around this July/August and can't decide on which Gen on the Intel side. From the research that I have done the 4690k has great OC headroom and but is on the haswell chipset with ddr3. The 6600k or 6500 are good, but straddle the 4690k in price, with good OC headroom on the 6600k but for more money especially with the z170 mobos going for upwards of 100 USD.

Currently I am running a Core 2 quad q9550 with a MSI 650ti boost. I plan to get either the msi r9 380 4gb or the msi 960 4gb.

 

I am welcome to suggestions on the CPU / rest of the build. Thanks!

 

buy 4690 no regrets

 

I have i5-6600 and it is OK but I use it with DDR3, DDR4 is not anything spectacular.

4690 is still better, I just wanted a newer build because why the fuc not?

[Phaeton]

Just now, pokechat8978 said:

Go for the 6500, and get the new AMD GPUs because they should be out by the time you build in July/August.

I'll look into that to see if it is in my price range of about 850 after rebates.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Phaeton said:

That's what I've seen the most I've just kept the green team in the race since I have ably ever used NVIDIA

I am a total green team fanboy too, but the 280 is really so much better.

[Phaeton]

Just now, Aleksbgbg said:

buy 4690 no regrets

 

I have i5-6600 and it is OK but I use it with DDR3, DDR4 is not anything spectacular.

4690 is still better, I just wanted a newer build because why the fuc not?

Skylake looks good because of ddr4 but I've seen that its not really worth the 120 bucks extra for 5-10 fps

 

[Aleksbgbg]

Just now, Phaeton said:

Skylake looks good because of ddr4 but I've seen that its not really worth the 120 bucks extra for 5-10 fps

 

You don't even get 5-10 fps. If you saw the video, linus tested and got worse performance. DDR4 is nothing to be desired, unless you are buying DDR4-4000mhz with actual use to it (which ur prob not).

[HPWebcamAble]

7 minutes ago, Phaeton said:

I am welcome to suggestions on the CPU / rest of the build. Thanks!

6500k is great for gaming and overclocking. If you won't do too much OC, go 4690k. No OC, go 4690.

 

You'll only need 4 cores for gaming which is why I don't recommend the 4790(k) or 6700(k). If you were doing any video editing, streaming, or recording, you might want an 8 core processor.