i5 6400

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hi, i was looking for a new cpu that doesn't cost too much. now i have an fx 6300, would the i5 6400 be a good choice?

[Godlygamer23]

That's a good CPU. Be sure to pick up a new board as well.

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for the board i was looking at msi z170

[Castdeath97]

6 minutes ago, mbox said:

for the board i was looking at msi z170

No need for a board like that at this budget. Get a cheaper B150/H110/H170 and save your self the money.

[QFA350]

You dont need a Z170 baord for a non K cpu.

[HKZeroFive]

14 minutes ago, mbox said:

for the board i was looking at msi z170

You're better off with a B150 or a H170. The extra price of the Z170 isn't worth it unless you have an unlocked (overclockable) CPU.

[Flesky015]

15 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

You're better off with a B150 or a H170. The extra price of the Z170 isn't worth it unless you have an unlocked (overclockable) CPU.

z170 boards could be used for faster memory to reduce CPU bottlenecks a bit, you should try getting the i5 6500 with a b150/h170 instead, it would probably be around the same speed of a 6400 with 3000mhz memory on a z170

 

OP - the 6400 is a nice cpu but if you can afford a z170 then you could get a b150 and the i5 6500

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I wrote z170 but i was thinking at h170, my bad

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Is there any nice h170 white or white and Black board that you can suggest me?

[Jumper118]

you could get a z170 board and overclock it to 4.4ghz as 2.7ghz is really really slow. 

[FruitBasketSilex]

10 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

you could get a z170 board and overclock it to 4.4ghz as 2.7ghz is really really slow. 

I thought non-k OC was dead?

[Jumper118]

1 hour ago, FruitBasketSilex said:

I thought non-k OC was dead?

no lol. you just might need to  update the bios 

[MageTank]

People trying to recommend an i5 6500 over the 6400, when the 4 core boost speed difference is only 200mhz. Then thinking 200mhz will make as much of a difference as a memory overclock, which has been proven to boost minimum FPS by 10-20% depending on amount of CPU overhead. I am highly disappointed x.x

 

5 hours ago, mbox said:

hi, i was looking for a new cpu that doesn't cost too much. now i have an fx 6300, would the i5 6400 be a good choice?

If you can afford a Z series board and faster memory, go with that. The 6500 has worse price:performance than the 6400. All 4 cores will boost to 3100mhz on the 6400, and all 4 cores will only boost to 3300mhz on the 6500. 200mhz clock speed (less than 10% more clock speed) for $20 more (10% more money) equates to bad price:performance. Let's also not forget that 10% more clock speed does not translate to 10% more performance, because scaling is never that linear. 

 

A stronger chipset (which promotes better upgrade paths in the future) and faster ram is a better option for that extra $20 to be spent. Even if you cannot afford faster ram XMP kits, just spend the extra $20 on a Z170 board, and manually overclock any cheap DDR4 kit to 2800mhz. Such a clock speed is easy to achieve on pretty much any kit, and is more than enough to notice an improvement in performance.

[FruitBasketSilex]

1 hour ago, Jumper118 said:

no lol. you just might need to  update the bios 

Huh. I don't do Skylake, I just remember all the hub-ub about it, and then someone saying it was dead because of microcode update. I am probably mistaken.

 

Carry on.

[Jumper118]

2 minutes ago, FruitBasketSilex said:

Huh. I don't do Skylake, I just remember all the hub-ub about it, and then someone saying it was dead because of microcode update. I am probably mistaken.

 

Carry on.

yeah, i've i had 3 boards and 9 cpus already only 1 of which was unlock and the slowest one did 4.2ghz

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2 hours ago, MageTank said:

A stronger chipset (which promotes better upgrade paths in the future) and faster ram is a better option for that extra $20 to be spent. Even if you cannot afford faster ram XMP kits, just spend the extra $20 on a Z170 board, and manually overclock any cheap DDR4 kit to 2800mhz. Such a clock speed is easy to achieve on pretty much any kit, and is more than enough to notice an improvement in performance.

You are right, the difference between an h170 and a z170 is not much in price and gives me better upgrade paths. For the CPU it self i think that the only upgrade that makes sense above the 6400 would be the 6600 that is out of budget.

[FruitBasketSilex]

1 hour ago, Jumper118 said:

yeah, i've i had 3 boards and 9 cpus already only 1 of which was unlock and the slowest one did 4.2ghz

Damn son.