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Hello all, I've been looking into building a gaming PC here pretty soon, and have been stuck on what processor to get for quite some time. There are many factors influencing my decision, so I'd like to get the best "bang for my buck" if you will as my budget is limited.
I don't want to spend a fortune on a processor, sub $100 would be nice, as that's already approximately 1/4th of my budget gone on one component alone. Basically, the lower the price, the better.
I've been looking and I found some great value by AMD, the A6-6400K seems like a decent APU for the money, and given that it uses the FM2 socket, and there are dual FM2/FM2+ socket motherboards, I feel as though this would be a good way to start out, and upgrade to a better processor in the future. (AMD seems to be sticking to the APU/FM2+ architecture from here on out) I believe the price of these chips has recently gone down thanks to the release of AMD's new APU's a short while ago. That being said, I'd still go with a discrete graphics card, as integrated is just not going to cut it.
Then there's the option of going with AMD's CPU lineup, but unfortunately, I think AM3+ may be a dead socket. There's been no news regarding a new lineup and their newest processors are over a year old now. Upgrade-ability and future-proofing (within reason) is something I'm trying to go for here. Even so, you can get a Quad or Hexa core processor for less than what Intel charges for their lowest i3 CPU.
Now for Intel's lineup, unfortunately, their processors are just more expensive, no other way around it. I wanted to look into the $60 range just for comparison purposes (as that's what the 6400K is going for) and the pickings were slim, about 2 Pentiums dip down into that lower section and the rest are Celerons. Forget about any "i" series CPU's unless you want one that's already 5 years old (no thanks). You'd be hard pressed to get me to use a Celeron, I've used them before on other's computers and they crawl, and even the higher-clocked dual-cores just do not have that "snappy" response time, and I feel it would lack the necessary power even for lower-class gaming. That leaves the Pentium line-up, Specifically, the only one for $60 I could find was the Pentium G3220. (Dual-Core 3.0GHz)
So, overall, I'd appreciate others insight into all of this, as the more I research, the more I'm really unsure of what's the best deal, or the soundest upgradeable option for the future.
Apologies for such a long post as well.
I don't want to spend a fortune on a processor, sub $100 would be nice, as that's already approximately 1/4th of my budget gone on one component alone. Basically, the lower the price, the better.
I've been looking and I found some great value by AMD, the A6-6400K seems like a decent APU for the money, and given that it uses the FM2 socket, and there are dual FM2/FM2+ socket motherboards, I feel as though this would be a good way to start out, and upgrade to a better processor in the future. (AMD seems to be sticking to the APU/FM2+ architecture from here on out) I believe the price of these chips has recently gone down thanks to the release of AMD's new APU's a short while ago. That being said, I'd still go with a discrete graphics card, as integrated is just not going to cut it.
Then there's the option of going with AMD's CPU lineup, but unfortunately, I think AM3+ may be a dead socket. There's been no news regarding a new lineup and their newest processors are over a year old now. Upgrade-ability and future-proofing (within reason) is something I'm trying to go for here. Even so, you can get a Quad or Hexa core processor for less than what Intel charges for their lowest i3 CPU.
Now for Intel's lineup, unfortunately, their processors are just more expensive, no other way around it. I wanted to look into the $60 range just for comparison purposes (as that's what the 6400K is going for) and the pickings were slim, about 2 Pentiums dip down into that lower section and the rest are Celerons. Forget about any "i" series CPU's unless you want one that's already 5 years old (no thanks). You'd be hard pressed to get me to use a Celeron, I've used them before on other's computers and they crawl, and even the higher-clocked dual-cores just do not have that "snappy" response time, and I feel it would lack the necessary power even for lower-class gaming. That leaves the Pentium line-up, Specifically, the only one for $60 I could find was the Pentium G3220. (Dual-Core 3.0GHz)
So, overall, I'd appreciate others insight into all of this, as the more I research, the more I'm really unsure of what's the best deal, or the soundest upgradeable option for the future.
Apologies for such a long post as well.
Even so, I'm aware other websites have other promotions and often more hardware-orientated deals, as Amazon does everything, not just computer components.
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