i3 7100 best for my budget?

[C0MM0R]

I'm actually building a computer for my friend on a budget, and I'm trying to decide on what processor to get for him. I lined him up a rx 480 to pair it with. I looked into the ryzen 5 series, and I will wait until it is released to make a decision, but for now, is the i3 the best for my budget? I'm trying to stick to around 700 dollars for the entire build, and he nor I want to skimp out on the graphics. I was also considering an i5 7500, but I'm not sure which would perform better for the price. The i3 is a dual core with hyper threading, but I might just wanna get him 4 logical cores. Right now, without a processor but with a Z270 board, I'm looking at around 550 dollars. Anything that wouldn't bottleneck performance would be nice. Thanks for the help!

[Guest]

G4560? 

[genexis_x]

i3 not a great value anymore. The G4560 is surely the budget king. If you want better performance, i5/i7 or Ryzen

[Princess Luna]

If you have a tight budget, why z270 to begin with? the cheaper b250 mobos are half the price and you're buying a locked processor any ways

[Carclis]

Nothing Intel really makes a whole lot of sense on the budget side of things with the R5 series right around the corner. I believe the R5 1400 is about $170 if you can stretch that budget just a little bit or cut costs on the motherboard. You'd also end up with 4c/8t instead of 2c/4t.

[TheNeonWhiteOne]

if it was right now without waiting for ryzen 

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/TheNeonWhiteOne/saved/yY3999

you don't need a z270 unless your overclocking or want to do more specific things that require its features. I went with a skylake cpu because it would be fine with an rx 480 and so you can have a mb with h110 without worrying about bios and h110 is cheaper.

[tom_w141]

R5 1500 (comes with the better cooler) or Pentium G4560.

 

Intel managed to kill their i3 line with the budget beast G4560 this generation. The i3 now makes no sense, its Pentium or i5 for intel or R5 quad core amd.

 

Check Hardware unboxed video for benchmarks of the G4560 compared to others.

 

EDIT: Also yeah no need for a Z series mobo if non k cpu

[dnf]

G4560/C2Q/Ryzen 5