Max 500 dollar build

Ananasana · August 19, 2016

Hello I'm moving to U.S.A in a week and I need new gaming build. Budget is 500 dollars, I'm probably going to buy RX 480 as a new gpu and I was thinking to buy used parts. I was wondering what cpu would be good enough to handle the gpu. I'm going to overclock the cpu.

Herman Mcpootis · August 19, 2016

an lga 1155 i5 or newer will be good enough for it.

Djole123 · August 19, 2016

Some of the best used CPUs are:

LGA 771 and LGA 1366 Xeons (single CPU usually works in a dual CPU MoBo)

Core 2 Quad (tho you need to be careful about MoBo support)

1st gen i7 (most notably i7 920)

W-L · August 19, 2016

-Moved to New Builds and Planning-

Trik'Stari · August 20, 2016

If you're moving here, I would recommend saving up a bit more and getting something newer.

Wouldn't want you getting any lemon parts, having a bad experience, and end up on consoles. Try to get at least an I5 (doesn't need to OC, doesn't give you any extra performance in gaming, at all) on the newer z170 (or non-OC version) platform, and an rx 480.

Or, if you want, wait and save until early 2017 and get something when Zen drops. Prices should be lower then anyways since competition will be better. Right now Intel charges more than they should because AMD has no CPU's that can really compete as far as single core performance goes.

Also, get at least 16 gigs of RAM if you can. 8 gigs is not enough anymore, no matter what anyone tells you. Although your needs for the system would be good to have. Is this a gaming rig? Or a productivity/browsing rig? With a 480 I guess it's safe to assume gaming, but what games? If you're just playing CS:GO a 480 is complete and total overkill.