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October 14, 2014 7:37:55 PM

Whats a good and cheap intel i5 lga 1155 that can handle a gtx 760? (upgrading from a i3) thx in advance!

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October 14, 2014 8:04:10 PM

You already have an i5 LGA 1155? which one? Unless you have one of the crappier ones like the i5-2300 I don't think you need an upgrade at all, and even if you did, I wouldn't waste the money.
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October 15, 2014 3:51:18 PM

nekulturny said:
You already have an i5 LGA 1155? which one? Unless you have one of the crappier ones like the i5-2300 I don't think you need an upgrade at all, and even if you did, I wouldn't waste the money.


sorry i replied late was getting 404 error but i meant core i3
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October 15, 2014 3:53:41 PM

The cheapest i5 you can get. You can usually get used Sandy Bridge i5s for like $120 on Amazon.
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October 15, 2014 4:02:25 PM

tiny voices said:
The cheapest i5 you can get. You can usually get used Sandy Bridge i5s for like $120 on Amazon.


not to sound needy or anything but what exact one and would it bottleneck a gtx 760? or sli down the road?
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October 15, 2014 4:03:51 PM

so far the cheapest good one i can find is a i5 3470
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October 15, 2014 4:06:11 PM

That is perfectly fine. ANY i5 will work. ANY of them.
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October 15, 2014 6:17:04 PM

BDBooty19 said:
tiny voices said:
The cheapest i5 you can get. You can usually get used Sandy Bridge i5s for like $120 on Amazon.


not to sound needy or anything but what exact one and would it bottleneck a gtx 760? or sli down the road?


I wouldn't worry about SLi down the road, honestly. As far as the whole planning your system for "future" upgrades, I'd watch this video, you'll learn a lot. But yea, systems typically are going to be more cost effective for performance just to rebuild every 3-4 years vs upgrading them. And yea, a SB or Ivy i5 will be fine to pair with a GTX 760. I really would stay away from the lower tier Sandy's though (i5-23xx), those are bastard children of the Sandy Bridge line, my OC'd Phenom II 975 beats them on Cinebench, they're just clocked too low and you cant overclock them. Go with i5-2400 or higher if going with Sandy Bridges.

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October 16, 2014 7:53:21 AM

nekulturny said:
BDBooty19 said:
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The cheapest i5 you can get. You can usually get used Sandy Bridge i5s for like $120 on Amazon.
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I wouldn't worry about SLi down the road, honestly. As far as the whole planning your system for "future" upgrades, I'd watch this video, you'll learn a lot. But yea, systems typically are going to be more cost effective for performance just to rebuild every 3-4 years vs upgrading them. And yea, a SB or Ivy i5 will be fine to pair with a GTX 760. I really would stay away from the lower tier Sandy's though (i5-23xx), those are bastard children of the Sandy Bridge line, my OC'd Phenom II 975 beats them on Cinebench, they're just clocked too low and you cant overclock them. Go with i5-2400 or higher if going with Sandy Bridges.
thx a bunch exact answer I wanted I would give you best answer but error 404 keeps coming up but ill still try to give that to you
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October 16, 2014 10:24:53 AM

The 23xx sandy bridge chips have decent turbo clocks that CAN be manipulated on a decent board. My Girlfriend has an i5 2310 (2.9ghz) and on a simple MSI board we were able to set to boost (turbo) to 3.5ghz. That is by no means slow, even by modern standards. Hers is paired up with an hd7950 (about as powerful as a 760) and has no issues at all in ANY game. Not even CLOSE to a bottleneck.
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