New Build £250 Remaining

[winngames]

Hi Everyone,

I've decided its time to upgrade my current setup so I've been buying parts when I can ( usually when I see a good deal) so my question is whats the best intel processor I can buy for my remaining budget of £250, ill need to buy 8gb of ram and a cooler with this too so its going to be tight.

bought core v1 itx case and gigabyte motherboard ga-z270n-wifi already.

thinking maybe I5 7400 or 7500, ideally I would like 7600k but I don't think I would benefit from it

all I want is something that wont bottleneck my 1060 6gb card.

Thanks for all your help

 

[SiDeards73]

Probably looking at i3 territory, the Kabylake i5 7600 is £230 on its own... no chance you can return that motherboard? if so you could get the new intel 8xxx series i3 which is actually that 7600k i think? Alternatively you could have bought a Ryzen 6c 12t chip and motherboard and ram etc for what your going to end up paying for an Intel quad core

 

[Hagar]

http://www.hwcompare.com/cpu/c/Core-i5-2500K-vs-Core-i5-7500

Neither is really an upgrade as the 7500 shown above to the 2500K (stock) indicates.

 

[jigger]

RAM is pricey right now and 8Gb is not ideal. I'd sell the board and go AM4 and 1600X or save up some money.

 

[winngames]

I see your point :/ yeah I could always return the board, problem is I need an ITX Build due to zero space in my house and they don't make many for amd. Is there much difference between 1600 and 1600x?

 

[jigger]

Well you can buy a 6700K for not much more than the average cost of 7600K, but then your paying way more again over the cost of an AM4 ITX board and Ryzen 1600. You could build a 1700X ITX system for that type of money.

 

[humbug]

I see your point :/ yeah I could always return the board, problem is I need an ITX Build due to zero space in my house and they don't make many for amd. Is there much difference between 1600 and 1600x?

They are the same CPU, one is clocked lower out of the box but they are both unlocked so they both overclock.

With 12 compute threads its the one to get, The i5 only has 4 and can cause massive performance slowdowns.

For example...

https://youtu.be/4RMbYe4X2LI?t=5m12s