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tezza192
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Im currently using an Athlon X4 860K with a GTX 980

 

My rig does chug a bit and i know on certain games the CPU is definitely holding back my GPU. I want to upgrade my CPU and in my local PC shop i was looking at skylake, but he had a few I5 4460s left on special and a Z97 gigabyte board which cost alot less than getting skylake and i wont have to buy memory. 

 

Is that CPU decent for gaming? Its last gen I know but really the skylake package was over £100 more and like i said can reuse my DDR3 sticks.

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HOLY BOTTLENECK! go with the haswell, there is very little diffrence

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3 minutes ago, tezza192 said:

Im currently using an Athlon X4 860K with a GTX 980

 

My rig does chug a bit and i know on certain games the CPU is definitely holding back my GPU. I want to upgrade my CPU and in my local PC shop i was looking at skylake, but he had a few I5 4460s left on special and a Z97 gigabyte board which cost alot less than getting skylake and i wont have to buy memory. 

 

Is that CPU decent for gaming? Its last gen I know but really the skylake package was over £100 more and like i said can reuse my DDR3 sticks.

I would wait until Zen. If you do want to upgrade I'd recommend a Xeon 1231 v3 and any good H-board with socket 1150

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I would wait until Zen. If you do want to upgrade I'd recommend a Xeon 1231 v3 and any good H-board with socket 1150

Wait until Zen? What another year? no thanks

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1 minute ago, tezza192 said:

Wait until Zen? What another year? no thanks

I did give you another choice if you didn't notice.

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I did give you another choice if you didn't notice.

 

Yeah and that choice is just as daft, that CPU is just as expensive as the skylake consumer stuff here, 

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Yeah and that choice is just as daft, that CPU is just as expensive as the skylake consumer stuff here, 

Where do you live?

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7 minutes ago, tezza192 said:

 

Yeah and that choice is just as daft, that CPU is just as expensive as the skylake consumer stuff here, 

The 4460's a good CPU, go for it.

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