Scalesdini
BlackWater Liquidations
INTERGALACTIC WARPIGS
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Posted - 2016.02.08 16:20:00 -
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Ugh, are you people kidding? Who brought up a 9590? Intel "mostly" beats the 9590? You're seriously recommending a 4790k for a $1,500 PC?! WHY?
Do not buy an AMD FX processor. They are 5 years old at this point and a Skylake i3-6100 will obliterate even the expensive, power wasting 9590 (spoiler: it's an overclocked 8350, you can save yourself $100 by buying an 8350 and overclocking it yourself) in essentially every gaming situation.
If you buy an i3 skylake, buy fast ram. It helps. DDR4-2666 or higher.
Don't buy less than 8gb of RAM. For any of these builds. Don't buy a single stick of ram, buy a kit of 2 sticks. All RAM today is designed to run in dual channel mode (or quad channel, for the X99 processors, meaning 4 sticks) and you're going to gimp your PC if you buy a single stick. 8gb of ram costs roughly the same whether it's 1 8gb stick or 2 4gb sticks.
If you're getting an i7, GET X99, NOT Z170. The Skylake i7-6700k is a 4 core 8 thread CPU and currently costs $400 everywhere but microcenter. The i7-5820k is a 6 core 12 thread CPU that, clock for clock, is within 3% of Skylake's single thread performance. The 5820k is cheaper than the 6700k everywhere, even microcenter (where it is currently $320). The difference here is the 5820k smashes the 6700k in multithreaded workloads. PC games are moving towards better multithreaded support in part because the PS4/Xbone are crappy 8 core AMD APU's and because clock speeds have been stagnant for years. 5820k is a much better investment, period.
If you spend on a 5820k, keep in mind they DO NOT have integrated graphics at all. You WILL have to have a graphics card just to get it to display. For a gaming PC, this is a non-issue.
Lastly, if you are buying a PC specifically for PC-Dust (either solely or mostly for), you should WAIT to buy your graphics cards. New offerings from AMD and nVidia are ~6 months out, even if you don't buy one of the new cards, the current crop will be on sale frequently for 1-3 months before the new stuff is released. Broadwell-E CPU's will also be out this year, probably around the same time frame as the new graphics cards, meaning Haswell-E's (the 5820k and its more expensive siblings) will likely be discounted shortly before those arrive as well, though this doesn't matter as much if you have a microcenter near you.
If anyone is confused on any of that or has any specific questions they want to ask me, I'll try and keep an eye on the thread and answer any ?'s. I'm also in the #Dust514 IRC channel 24/7 (not always at keyboard) so feel free to come in there and ask as well. CatMerc is there as well and one or the other of us can help you. Also, his thread on PC's is pretty good: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3099750#post3099750 |