Newbie building a pc

[morde24]

I am new at the buisness of building my own desktops and have been doing a lot of research before making my first build, and am on a budget. A lot of the videos i have been seeing are very informative but i have found it really hard to find simple information like is the i5 really better than a similarly priced amd card if i am planning on doing some small amounts of gaming, internet surfing and mainly typing documents and 3d rendering/using photoshop. what i also havent been able to find is much information on whether or not higher performance graphics cards are really worth it if i am planning on playing games like CS:GO and whether or not i should go for a higher end CPU and a low end or no GPU verses the middle of each

Any help and tips would be much appreciated

SIncerely,

     confused and asking for help

[datgrammardoe]

What is your budget

[datgrammardoe]

If you are doing a lot of rendering then a better cpu would be the best option for you.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1929437/cpu-gpu-rendering.html

[morde24]

from like 400-700 or so, its not really set in stone but i doubt more than 700 and id prefer focusing more on simple rendering and the ability to upgrade if needed or i suddenly have mroe money

 

[DarkBlade2117]

If you want the ability to upgrade I'd looked for a i5-6500, AsRock Z170 Pro4 to flash a older bios to it and BCLK over lock your CPU, 8GBs of RAM, get the RX 480 when it comes out in 19 days, a cheap XFX or SeaSonic PSU or EVGA B2, a case you like, such as a NZXT S340, use stock cooler or a BeQuiet! PURE ROCK, if recording get a 2TB HDD and a 120GB SSD for a boot drive. On mobile so no pcpp for me.

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moved to new build planning

[morde24]

15 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

If you want the ability to upgrade I'd looked for a i5-6500, AsRock Z170 Pro4 to flash a older bios to it and BCLK over lock your CPU, 8GBs of RAM, get the RX 480 when it comes out in 19 days, a cheap XFX or SeaSonic PSU or EVGA B2, a case you like, such as a NZXT S340, use stock cooler or a BeQuiet! PURE ROCK, if recording get a 2TB HDD and a 120GB SSD for a boot drive. On mobile so no pcpp for me.

so far i have been moving in the direction of an i5 4460... is it safe to assume that along the intel lines, assuming specs match up i can safely change processors?

[DarkBlade2117]

30 minutes ago, morde24 said:

so far i have been moving in the direction of an i5 4460... is it safe to assume that along the intel lines, assuming specs match up i can safely change processors?

If you want future upgrades I'd go for a i5-6400/6500

[morde24]

16 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

 

[DarkBlade2117]

1 hour ago, morde24 said:

1 hour ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

 

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[morde24]

said something dumb and cant figure out how to delete it

 

[PCIsMasterRace]

2 hours ago, morde24 said:

so far i have been moving in the direction of an i5 4460... is it safe to assume that along the intel lines, assuming specs match up i can safely change processors?

No.

Haswell and Broadwell cpu's (4000 series - 5000 series) use cpu socket 1150, while skylake cpu's (6000 series) use cpu socket 1151. The two sockets are not interchangeable and require different motherboards.

[morde24]

3 minutes ago, PCIsMasterRace said:

No.

Haswell and Broadwell cpu's (4000 series - 5000 series) use cpu socket 1150, while skylake cpu's (6000 series) use cpu socket 1151. The two sockets are not interchangeable and require different motherboards.

ok thanks also i have been talking to other and moving towards the tunr of the i5 6400

 

[PCIsMasterRace]

7 minutes ago, morde24 said:

thanks also i have been talking to other and moving towards the tunr of the i5 6400

A quick question

Do you live near a microcenter? Prices are alot cheaper there for cpu's

http://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/

[morde24]

6 minutes ago, PCIsMasterRace said:

A quick question

Do you live near a microcenter? Prices are alot cheaper there for cpu's

http://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/

thanks that something to think about couple "near" me, that something to think about thanks

[morde24]

 

44 minutes ago, morde24 said:

thanks that something to think about couple "near" me, that something to think about thanks

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/CppK8K , im purchasing the i5 6500 and the mobo at a micro center in ny, thanks man