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Best i5 for gaming???

Russell Price

Russell Price

Russell Price

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Hi there, fairly new to pc gaming and looking at a new build and was just trying to decide on which cpu to go with. Was just looking for some advice from people on which Intel cpu to go with, from what I've researched looks like I should go with an i5 but was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. I have a budget of around £200 which can be pushed a little if the upgrade is worth the extra ££.

Thanks in advance :)
 
Russell Price said:
Hi there, fairly new to pc gaming and looking at a new build and was just trying to decide on which cpu to go with. Was just looking for some advice from people on which Intel cpu to go with, from what I've researched looks like I should go with an i5 but was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. I have a budget of around £200 which can be pushed a little if the upgrade is worth the extra ££.

Thanks in advance :)
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May I ask why you believe an Intel i5 is the best CPU your budget will allow? As Gavin says, the AMD RyZen 1600 will wipe the floor with that i5, and you will get 6 physical cores and 6 virtual cores giving you a total of 12 threads, as opposed to the flat 4 threads you will get with an Intel i5.

AMD RyZen will not only give you great performance but a lot more future proof than an i5 which quite frankly are a backwards step now in today's technology.
 
+1 for 1600 with Asus Strix B350 and good compatible 3200/3466 ram. Better value for money by far.
 
Does the £200 budget need to cover cpu/motherboard/ram or just cpu?

Whilst a 1600 ryzen is an obvious choice you'll need more than £200 for the rest of the kit
 
Panos said:
Even if you try to discredit common sense by writing the n-th time this week about "Ryzen armies flooding such threads", proposing to someone an Intel CPU today is lunacy and without any valid ground :)
And while I am with you, writing last few days that the issues KabylakeX & SkylakeX are experiencing have nothing to do with the CPU, same applies also to the Ryzen CPUs.

Intel overpriced quad cores are last decade technology.
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Common sense would be that most games do not use more than 4C4T, but most games would benefit from the great single-thread performance of the i5. You idealism only look into multi-thread scores and these scores are theoretical scores and do not reflect the actual advantage in 30 games.
 
voidshatter said:
Simple: if the OP doesn't play the very few specific games using more than 4C4T then the i5 is a good pick for gaming. It's also good for some daily applications eating single-thread performance.
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Your right, ryzen is no good for web surfing or playing music or checking emails etc.
I'm too scared to run word on my 1700, its just too slow.
 
For just £230 one can get rid of compatibility issues between AMD CPUs and nVidia GPUs, and win in most games as of today.

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