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Raginryuu
By Raginryuu
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21 minutes ago, Raginryuu said:

My friend wants to know whether to put more money into the CPU or the GPU. Currently he is deciding to either buy an i3-6100 and a GTX 970 or an i5-6600K and a GTX 960. From there he will decide whether he will up in the future or not. Thanks all!!

I'd vote an i5-6500 and an R9 380 (or 380X/390, if possible). That way, you get the best of both.

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The problem is that this is an nVidia product and scoring any nVidia product a "zero" is also highly predictive of the number of nVidia products the reviewer will receive for review in the future.

On 2015-01-28 at 5:24 PM, Victorious Secret said:

Only yours, you don't shitpost on the same level that we can, mainly because this thread is finally dead and should be locked.

On 2016-06-07 at 11:25 PM, patrickjp93 said:

I wasn't wrong. It's extremely rare that I am. I provided sources as well. Different devs can disagree. Further, we now have confirmed discrepancy from Twitter about he use of the pre-release 1080 driver in AMD's demo despite the release 1080 driver having been out a week prior.

On 2016-09-10 at 4:32 PM, Hikaru12 said:

You apparently haven't seen his responses to questions on YouTube. He is very condescending and aggressive in his comments with which there is little justification. He acts totally different in his videos. I don't necessarily care for this content style and there is nothing really unique about him or his channel. His endless dick jokes and toilet humor are annoying as well.

 

 

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i5 6400/6500/4460, and an r9 390 if possible, but tell him to wait for polaris.

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I'd definitely go with the i5-6600k over the i3. But if at all possible. Tell him to wait to grab a graphics card. Polaris is right around the corner which should affect prices on the AMD side, and prices on the Nvidia side still haven't come down quite as far as I think they will (just speculation) due to the 1080/1070 release (vendors are probably still trying to get as much as they can, until AIB 1080/1070 flood the market). 

 

The other thing to consider, if he's willing to go used. He could pick up the i5 new, and probably get a 970/980 used pretty cheap. Waiting will give him time to save up some more money as well.

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