Intel i5-3570k

[ryanthomp1]

So I just "inherited" my granddads old (new) pc that we bought for him a year ago and i was checking it out and found out that it has and intel i5 3570k in it which i my self have NEVER heard of and I checked it out online and found out the socket for it is an LGA 1155. so then i researched the socket for motherboards and found out that the decent motherbords for this are in the $300 dollar range. I was wanting to use this for my gaming PC (currently have an AMD) does anyone know if this is a good processor for gaming and if there are any good motherboards? 

 

Thanks

 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504

[stealth80]

Its a good chip, but its not worth it if it's gonna cost $300 for the board, you could get a newer i5 + board for that money

[ryanthomp1]

4 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Its a good chip, but its not worth it if it's gonna cost $300 for the board, you could get a newer i5 + board for that money

Yeah I was just wondering because my AMD Fx-8350 dosent support PCI 3x16 lanes so there is a minor performance bottle neck with that and also it was free. But that makes sense.

[dizmo]

It's quite an old chip, so you'd have to be looking at used motherboards, not new.

You plan on using 3 video cards? There's so many things wrong with that idea....

[ryanthomp1]

3 minutes ago, dizmo said:

It's quite an old chip, so you'd have to be looking at used motherboards, not new.

You plan on using 3 video cards? There's so many things wrong with that idea....

Oh no I only have one graphics card

[dizmo]

29 minutes ago, Dudegt said:

Oh no I only have one graphics card

So how are you bottlenecked?

[ryanthomp1]

2 minutes ago, dizmo said:

So how are you bottlenecked?

Maybe not a bottle neck just a minor performance decrease 

[stealth80]

7 hours ago, Dudegt said:

Oh no I only have one graphics card

Then why do you need 3x 16 pci lanes?

[stconquest]

7 hours ago, Dudegt said:

So I just "inherited" my granddads old (new) pc that we bought for him a year ago and i was checking it out and found out that it has and intel i5 3570k in it which i my self have NEVER heard of and I checked it out online and found out the socket for it is an LGA 1155. so then i researched the socket for motherboards and found out that the decent motherbords for this are in the $300 dollar range. I was wanting to use this for my gaming PC (currently have an AMD) does anyone know if this is a good processor for gaming and if there are any good motherboards? 

 

Thanks

 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504

The 3570K will be a much better gaming CPU when the application uses four cores or less.  If a game can use more than four cores the 8350 will keep up, maybe even surpassing it in a few titles.

 

The Intel will give you a more stable all around experience with that GTX 1060.

 

General comparison:  http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-3570K-vs-AMD-FX-8350/1316vs1489

 

How do you have a CPU, but not a motherboard?

[ARikozuM]

I would sell the CPU if you don't have a motherboard for it. Put that money into whatever CPU does better in March-April.

[Godlygamer23]

7 hours ago, Dudegt said:

Yeah I was just wondering because my AMD Fx-8350 dosent support PCI 3x16 lanes so there is a minor performance bottle neck with that and also it was free. But that makes sense.

I do not believe PCIe 2.0 x16 should bottleneck any modern single-GPU video card.