CPU reccomendations?

[PaulU]

Hi

my build:

AMD FX 4100

AMD Radeon HD 7770

Asus M5A78L LE

8GB DDR3 Ram

500GB HDD + 1TB HDD

Corsair CX450 PSU

 

I'm planning on getting an RX480 or a GTX 1060 and if I do that my CPU is gonna Bottleneck quite hard.

I was thinking about getting an FX 8350 or 70. I'm not a pro so I thought I'm gonna get your reccomendations before I do anything.

Of course I also plan on getting an SSD.

Thanks.

[LizardsAreOP]

if you would want that CPU you need a new mobo so i recommend going for a i5 6500 and the cheapest mobo and use that

[TheRandomness]

Just get an i3-6100 and an RX 470 when it comes out. 

[Simon771]

Better get i5 6500 and it will beat that amd CPU.

I would even take i3 over that amd 8 core.

 

For CPUs, I'm 100% Intel fanboy.

[Jonathan Lemmens]

4 minutes ago, PaulU said:

Hi

my build:

AMD FX 4100

AMD Radeon HD 7770

Asus M5A78L LE

8GB DDR3 Ram

500GB HDD + 1TB HDD

Corsair CX450 PSU

 

I'm planning on getting an RX480 or a GTX 1060 and if I do that my CPU is gonna Bottleneck quite hard.

I was thinking about getting an FX 8350 or 70. I'm not a pro so I thought I'm gonna get your reccomendations before I do anything.

Of course I also plan on getting an SSD.

Thanks.

Sure there will be some bottlenecking. I'm guessing it won't be that bad, but it really isn't worth it to upgrade to a 4 year old CPU.

 

If you've got the cash I would build a new PC and try to sell this one second hand, if you're on a budget, get the GPU now and wait until later this year to upgrade the CPU, RAM and mobo.

[PaulU]

2 minutes ago, LizardsAreOP said:

if you would want that CPU you need a new mobo so i recommend going for a i5 6500 and the cheapest mobo and use that

I was looking on the ASUS website and it said my motherboard supports this CPU.

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A78L_LE/HelpDesk_CPU/

[PaulU]

7 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Just get an i3-6100 and an RX 470 when it comes out. 

I also do Video and Photo editing. WIll an i3 be enough for all that?

[PaulU]

10 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Just get an i3-6100 and an RX 470 when it comes out. 

why the 470?

[LizardsAreOP]

3 minutes ago, PaulU said:

I also do Video and Photo editing. WIll an i3 be enough for all that?

No get a i5 then

[PaulU]

7 minutes ago, Jonathan Lemmens said:

Sure there will be some bottlenecking. I'm guessing it won't be that bad, but it really isn't worth it to upgrade to a 4 year old CPU.

 

If you've got the cash I would build a new PC and try to sell this one second hand, if you're on a budget, get the GPU now and wait until later this year to upgrade the CPU, RAM and mobo.

I'm not gonna sell it. I'll upgrade it part by part. Everything but the 1TB HDD is gonna change. Over some time that is.

[Jonathan Lemmens]

1 minute ago, PaulU said:

I also do Video and Photo editing. WIll an i3 be enough for all that?

In that case the FX-8350/70 will probably be better but still imo not worth it. An i5 will be better overall.

 

[CookieTheLabrador]

6 minutes ago, PaulU said:

I also do Video and Photo editing. WIll an i3 be enough for all that?

Nope, get at least ani5

[PaulU]

Ok well if I wait a bit to increase my budget  I can get an i5 6500. Will I have to change the motherboard then? If yes, any reccomendations? I don't want to spend too much on that.

[CookieTheLabrador]

1 minute ago, PaulU said:

Ok well if I wait a bit to increase my budget  I can get an i5 6500. Will I have to change the motherboard then? If yes, any reccomendations? I don't want to spend too much on that.

Asus H110M-K

[CookieTheLabrador]

2 minutes ago, PaulU said:

Ok well if I wait a bit to increase my budget  I can get an i5 6500. Will I have to change the motherboard then? If yes, any reccomendations? I don't want to spend too much on that.

Also will need new RAM

[PaulU]

2 minutes ago, CookieTheLabrador said:

Also will need new RAM

The RAM upgrade is already in the making. Getting 16BG HyperX Fury Ram as 2 8GB sticks.

[CookieTheLabrador]

2 minutes ago, PaulU said:

The RAM upgrade is already in the making. Getting 16BG HyperX Fury Ram as 2 8GB sticks.

They need to be DDR4 though. And the AMD CPU doesn't support it <- Just a heads up

[PaulU]

6 minutes ago, CookieTheLabrador said:

They need to be DDR4 though. And the AMD CPU doesn't support it <- Just a heads up

Why does it have to be DDR4? On the amazon page it sais DDR3. Getting DDR4 is no problem but I don't know why. I'm noob.

DDR3-SDRAM, DDR3L-SDRAM that's what it says.

[PaulU]

OOOOH there are two different versions of this board. I got you my friend

But the one with K at the end is only ddr3 the other has an A

[CookieTheLabrador]

3 minutes ago, PaulU said:

Why does it have to be DDR4? On the amazon page it sais DDR3. Getting DDR4 is no problem but I don't know why. I'm noob.

Skylake (i5 6500 Architecture) doesn't use ddr3. DDR3 runs on a higher voltage compared to ddr4. If ddr3 ram is used, it can fry the cpu (don't want to do that). There is modified versions of ddr3 called ddr3l. I would prefer getting a ddr4 board over ddr3

[CookieTheLabrador]

5 minutes ago, PaulU said:

OOOOH there are two different versions of this board. I got you my friend

But the one with K at the end is only ddr3 the other has an A

The "k" at the end stands for unlocked. The chip can be overclocked but to overclock, you need a "z" chipset motherboard (expensive) 

 

Here is the board - https://au.pcpartpicker.com/product/yntWGX/asus-motherboard-h110mk

[TheRandomness]

1 hour ago, PaulU said:

why the 470?

Because it's pretty much a cheaper 480 (300~ less stream processors)

1 hour ago, PaulU said:

I also do Video and Photo editing. WIll an i3 be enough for all that?

An i5 would be better for those purposes.