How 'low' in terms of a CPU can I pair with a Fury X before throttling?

heartburnron · 1 Jul 2017 at 19:52

So I've decided I'm going to build a PC for my 5 & 6 year old boys to game on. I already have a few spare parts and will have a Fury X to use once I buy the RX Vega later this year. I know that an i5 is considered the ideal gaming processor for performance and value but how far down the CPU order can I go before it would start restricting the performance of the Fury X do you think? Could I get away with an i3 processor do you think? Or what about one of the lower clocked 3.00 Ghz i5s?

Obviously my boys are too young to appreciate the quality in graphics so it wouldn't be a problem to knock down some settings but it would be silly to buy a processor that's going to shut off some of GPU capability...

heartburnron · 1 Jul 2017 at 21:24

I have a spare ASUS 1080p monitor - won't be going for freesync or anything like that as this is for a 5 and 6 year old who won't appreciate anything like that for a while yet. The plan is to build this as cheaply as possible - I'm going to be picking up 1 or 2 components each month and most of them will be either second hand or B grade - it just so happens that I'll be dropping in my Fury X - everything else will be on the cheap...

heartburnron · 2 Jul 2017 at 11:41

mickyflinn said:
Think you will be fine at 1080p even with the G4560 ( kabylake ) cpu which has 2 cores 4 threads and virtually matches the 6100 I3 skylake.

Then you can uopgrade cpu as they grow.

That's great thanks - I didn't expect to be able to go that for down - bonus! What about his motherboard https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...cket-1151-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-676-as.html ? It's the 1151 socket which I know fits both Sky and Kaby lake but it's the H110 chipset and I'm not sure if Kabylake will work on this or not - it does say it supports 6th gen Intel which was Skylake so will it work for Kaby too? Which processor was the H110 chipset originally for anyway?

heartburnron · 2 Jul 2017 at 13:31

pastymuncher said:
A H110 board may need a bios flash before it will work with a Kabylake cpu and you will need a Skylake cpu to be able to flash the bios. A B250 chipset board would be better as it will work with Kabylake out of the box.

Ah thanks. I was looking at the Z170 and Z270 boards but didn't want to spend over £100 (don't plan on spending over £100 on any single component if possible) - didn't know about the B250s. Cheers!