Help with choice

[paulo97]

Hey so im finding it quite hard to chose between the two following options , basically i have 100euros to spend , and i can get one of the following two things.Little things to know

i mostly play 2d games, cs go and older games(just played spec ops the line ) but i want to be able to play some better stuff , my aim is to be able to play with low settings at 30 fps stable .Dont know if im supposed to do this here , but im new to the forum and thought this would be the place to get help

option 1: 

random board,hhd, psu

i3 4130

4gb ddr3

and buy a graphics card later on 

 

option 2:

random hdd , psu 

Asus P5K SE  

q6600

4gb dd2

gigabyte gtx 660ti

or 750ti 

something around this 

[knightslugger]

Option 1.

[AdamBGames]

option 1, the hyperthreading of the i3 will beat the q6600, plus ddr3 is faster than ddr2 so you will most likely see a difference

[Liquid Cooled Human]

You can find the e5 2670 on ebay for about 90 euros if not cheaper. which is an 8 core cpu and much better than the i3

[AdamBGames]

19 minutes ago, paulo97 said:

Hey so im finding it quite hard to chose between the two following options , basically i have 100euros to spend , and i can get one of the following two things.Little things to know

i mostly play 2d games, cs go and older games(just played spec ops the line ) but i want to be able to play some better stuff , my aim is to be able to play with low settings at 30 fps stable .Dont know if im supposed to do this here , but im new to the forum and thought this would be the place to get help

option 1: 

random board,hhd, psu

i3 4130

4gb ddr3

and buy a graphics card later on 

 

option 2:

random hdd , psu 

Asus P5K SE  

q6600

4gb dd2

gigabyte gtx 660ti

or 750ti 

something around this 

oh and btw, intergrated graphics over the last few years has got very good and in some instances has beaten cheap gpus, luke made a video about this putting the 6700k vs a cheap gpu

[SLAYR]

Neither one of those systems are really going to be doing anything better then csgo, and such, if you are wanting to play better games, 8gb of ram is a minimum now, an i3, or an amd 845 would be the lowest cpu I could recommend, as well as something comparable to a 750ti. 

 

And never cheap out on a psu most low end psus that say "500w" for example cannot even provide half of that and have a high rate of failure often taking out other components as well.

[SLAYR]

4 minutes ago, AdamBGames said:

oh and btw, intergrated graphics over the last few years has got very good and in some instances has beaten cheap gpus, luke made a video about this putting the 6700k vs a cheap gpu

Integrated graphics have only gotten good enough to match a r7 250 range gpu, it is okay for playing minecraft and such at 1080p, but if you want to play anyrhing more intense it will have to be at 720p low settings. And the skylake igpu is far better then the haswell's but if you are going for an igpu AMD's are the ones to look at with its R7 graphics.

[paulo97]

6 minutes ago, Liquid Cooled Human said:

You can find the e5 2670 on ebay for about 90 euros if not cheaper. which is an 8 core cpu and much better than the i3

the i3 is a full desktop , i can get home and its ready to go , if i bought that cpu i have no where to put it and only way later could i get the next piece and start making a pc

[paulo97]

7 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

Neither one of those systems are really going to be doing anything better then csgo, and such, if you are wanting to play better games, 8gb of ram is a minimum now, an i3, or an amd 845 would be the lowest cpu I could recommend, as well as something comparable to a 750ti. 

 

And never cheap out on a psu most low end psus that say "500w" for example cannot even provide half of that and have a high rate of failure often taking out other components as well.

i could maybe get an extra 4gb , its like 15 bucks used 

[Liquid Cooled Human]

Just now, paulo97 said:

the i3 is a full desktop , i can get home and its ready to go , if i bought that cpu i have no where to put it and only way later could i get the next piece and start making a pc

Ah, the i3 should be fine but it depends on the games you're going to play.

[paulo97]

Just an update , ended up doing what you guys said , and went with the i3 option