Soldato
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Hey guys. I haven't been following CPUs and such since the i series of Intel CPUs have come out, so I'm a bit in the dark.
In january I'm looking to do a decent upgrade as my Q6600 isn't powerful enough for what I want. Which is mostly livestreaming PC games to ustream.tv, and because I'm not happy with my performance in TF2 even though I'm using a high FPS config and people with lower specs than me run the game better.
High quality streams needs a hell of a lot of CPU power, my Q6600 doesn't even come close to what I want. Ideally I need a CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads, I think I saw some i7 models with that? Do any i5 models have that? It would be extremely helpful because I could assign the game cores, my screen capturing software some cores and my video encoder some cores each.
But yeah, I have a £600 or so budget (willing to increase if worth it) for a new CPU, mobo, RAM and GPU. Probably going to need a new PSU too, I doubt my FSP Blue Storm 500W is going to handle anything better than what I currently have.
So what do you guys recommend for the most CPU power I can get within my budget? A faster CPU is much more important than a high end GPU because I only really play TF2 and Starcraft 2, which aren't very demanding but I do need to run them well enough.
Thanks
edit: might be worth mentioning what I currently have.
Q6600 @3GHz, 4GB DDR2, Gigabyte P965 S3, HD4850 1GB.
In january I'm looking to do a decent upgrade as my Q6600 isn't powerful enough for what I want. Which is mostly livestreaming PC games to ustream.tv, and because I'm not happy with my performance in TF2 even though I'm using a high FPS config and people with lower specs than me run the game better.
High quality streams needs a hell of a lot of CPU power, my Q6600 doesn't even come close to what I want. Ideally I need a CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads, I think I saw some i7 models with that? Do any i5 models have that? It would be extremely helpful because I could assign the game cores, my screen capturing software some cores and my video encoder some cores each.
But yeah, I have a £600 or so budget (willing to increase if worth it) for a new CPU, mobo, RAM and GPU. Probably going to need a new PSU too, I doubt my FSP Blue Storm 500W is going to handle anything better than what I currently have.
So what do you guys recommend for the most CPU power I can get within my budget? A faster CPU is much more important than a high end GPU because I only really play TF2 and Starcraft 2, which aren't very demanding but I do need to run them well enough.
Thanks
edit: might be worth mentioning what I currently have.
Q6600 @3GHz, 4GB DDR2, Gigabyte P965 S3, HD4850 1GB.
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